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Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal 90-Year-Old, Three Others Off Ventilators Bond Says COVID Seems Milder, As Latest Victims Out Of Danger By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A 90-year-old hospitalized with COVID-19 last week is out of the hospital and recovering, Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health director, reported yesterday. “All the people who were hospitalized have improved,” she said. “No one is on a ventilator anymore.” After a quiet weekend – no cases…
Local Merchants Alerted To Grants For Reopening The Hartford Offering Up To $15,000 COOPERSTOWN – Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk is alerting downtown merchants to the new HartBeat of Main Street Grant Program, which is offering grants of $5,000 to $15,000 to brick-and-mortar small businesses in commercial districts as they enter the next phases of reopening across the country. The grants would be available to such businesses in downtown across Otsego County.…
IN MEMORIAM: Marshall L. Aylesworth, 77; Electrician, NYSEG Retiree, IBEW Member GARRATTSVILLE – Marshall Lee Aylesworth, 77, an IBEW member, Licensed Electrician and NYSEG retiree, passed away peacefully on July 25, 2020, at his home in Garrattsville. Marshall was born on Oct. 22, 1942, in Leonardsville, the son of the late Raynard, and Irene (Gould) Aylesworth. Marshall was a hard worker and took pride in his 33-year career with NYSEG. He was a member of the IBEW, was a Licensed…
NYS Adds 4 States To Travel Advisory 35 States, Plus Puerto Rico, On List…
TO REGISTER, CALL 607-547-4279 Free COVID Testing Offered To Residents SCHUYLER LAKE – The county Health Department is offering free COVID-19 testing for people who are NOT sick but want to be tested. Pre-registration required. Call 607-547-4279 to register. The testing, for Otsego County residents only, will be offered 9-noon Friday at the Exeter Town Barn on Route 28 on the north end of this hamlet.…
LifeNet, EMTs On Scene Of Exeter ATV Crash By LARISSA RYAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EXETER – Two teenagers were injured in an ATV crash in Exeter this afternoon, Robert O’Brien, director, Otsego County 911 has confirmed. According to John Seamon, his granddaughter Brooke McCord, 16, was riding a large ATV with her boyfriend, Robbie Brykailo, 16 on Dan Seamon’s property near the intersections of County Routes 23 and 24 in Exeter. When they attempted to go over a four-foot…
Film Days Goes Online For 2020 COOPERSTOWN – The annual Glimmerglass Film Days will be presented online this year, with a slate of films scheduled for Nov. 5-11. “Curator Peggy Parsons and the Film Days Steering Committee are building a slate of films you’ll want to watch, ponder, and discuss,” the committee wrote in a press release. “You’ll meet mavericks, pioneers, dreamers, and doers and hear stories of revival, perseverance, injustice, and the human spirit. We also plan to offer…
Tractor Fest, Candlelight Evening TBD The Farmers’ Museum Cancels Harvest Festival COOPERSTOWN – The Farmers’ Museum’s annual Harvest Festival has been cancelled, the museum announced today, citing the ongoing pandemic. The event, which was scheduled to take place Sept. 19–20, would have celebrated its 42nd consecutive year.…
Delgado Introduces Bill To Connect Small Farms, Schools Congressman Antonio Delgado, NY-19, has co-sponsored the bipartisan Small Farm to School Act, an eight-state pilot program where public schools would be reimbursed at a higher rate for sourcing school lunches from small farmers under the National School Lunch Program. “Our family farmers are essential to our way of life in upstate New York, and we should be looking for every opportunity to support our small businesses and farmers, while helping our…