Cavalcade Of Cars Salutes Dotty Phillips On Birthday A cavalcade of cars driven by friends of Dotty Phillips drove up Cooperstown’s Westridge Road a few minutes ago to celebrate and surprise their friend on a special birthday. Top photo, Sue Street attaches balloons to the light on the Phillips’ front lawn; in the background is Maryann Dietz. Inset, the birthday girl poses with husband Hank, the retired Withey’s Drug Store pharmacist. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)…
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Jobless Aren’t Getting Benefits, Seward Says; Calls For Investigation 4 Legislators’ Focus: Labor Department ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has joined a bipartisan group of state legislators urging an investigation of why jobless New Yorkers can’t get benefits to which they’re entitled. “While some of the millions of the state’s unemployed have begun receiving benefits, millions more have not only not received benefits but can’t get through to the Department of Labor by phone or email,” according to…
Bassett, Fox Allowed To Do Elective Surgery COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Medical Center and Fox Hospital in Oneonta have been given the go-ahead to resume elective surgeries (outpatient) and non-urgent outpatient procedures, it was confirmed today. A news conference is planned at 10:30 a.m. next Tuesday, May 12, to outline plans for resumption of those services. Elective surgeries were put on hold after Governor Cuomo’s emergency declaration Friday, March 13, as Bassett and Fox reorganized to focus on the anticipated challenges…
AllOTSEGO.com E-EDITORIAL Why Not Plan Locally To Un-PAUSE Here? On second thought, it’s an intriguing idea. County Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, who is also running for state Senate, suggested yesterday that, instead of waiting for Governor Cuomo to tell us when and how to reopen, we in Otsego County should put together our own un-PAUSE plan, present it to the governor, and act on it. Hmm. That would follow the model the Cuomo Administration is applying to factories and construction…
RUFFLES REPORTS: May Sales-Tax Check Here: 26% Lower Than Last Year By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The May sales-tax check arrived at 197 Main St. today, and County Treasurer Allen Ruffles reports it is 26.9 percent lower than last year’s May check. That is a reduction of slightly less than $600,000, he said, but higher than the 25 percent NYSAC estimated. The sales-tax allocations are issued every other month, and Otsego County’s largest ones will be…
Barber: Leave Decision On Reopening County To ‘Medical Experts’ He Criticizes Oberacker Call To Plan ‘un-PAUSE’ Locally SCHOHARIE – Democrat Jim Barber this evening issued a statement saying he “profoundly disagrees” with his Republican opponent Peter Oberacker‘s idea of developing a local plan to reopen Otsego County instead of waiting for Governor Cuomo to do so. Both men are running to succeed state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Wednesday, May 6 NY Will Collaborate With Google Ex-CEO On Better Tech Use ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today announced that Schmidt Futures will help integrate New York State practices and systems with the best advanced technology tools to build back better. Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Executive Chairman and founder of Schmidt Futures, will lead the state’s 15-member Blue Ribbon Commission and use what the state has learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with new technologies, to improve…
HERE’S TEXT OF DEBATED RESOLUTION Let US Decide How To Reopen, Oberacker Says He Votes Nay But, After Lively Debate, Republicans, Democrats Come Together By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County shouldn’t be waiting for Governor Cuomo’s permission to reopen as the coronavirus threat wanes, says county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus. Oberacker, who is also running for state Senate, was the sole “nay” vote as a resolution asking the governor to reopen the county “safely and…
COUNTY REPS DECLARE: If Onondaga County Can Sell Cars, Otsego Dealers Should, Too COOPERSTOWN – If Onondaga County got a special dispensation from Governor Cuomo to open its car dealerships, why shouldn’t Otsego County? That’s the question the Otsego County board wants answered by the time it next meets at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. Acting on a suggestion by Republican Oneonta City Council member Len Carson, his county rep, Democrat Danny Lapin, today championed his constituent: “If Onondaga got…
Fly Creek EMT Squad Welcomes Ambulance Among ruminations that “we’ve come a long way in 12 years,” the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company’s Emergency Squad gathered to welcome a brand new Horton Ambulance as it arrived at the station at 5 p.m. today. Officers posing with the squad’s pride and joy are, from left, Fire Chief Chris Voulo, 1st Assistant Jess Lanza, Second Assistants Henry Hight and Adam Kantor, Squad Capt. Rick Kelly, and Fire Police Capt. John Phillips, joined…