MAY 15, FACTORIES, CONSTRUCTION A GO BEGINNING OF THE END? Governor Opens Door To County’s Reopening By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com By May 18, Greg Ward hopes that Burt Rigid Box in the Town of Oneonta can bring its 44 employees back to work. “We’re in the process of putting plans in place,” said Ward, the plant’s operations manager. “We’ve got a crew in there deep cleaning now, and we’re constructing Plexiglas barriers for when people can’t exercise…
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FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE No Need For A Brick By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Nope, I’m not addressing you from the front porch – it’s icy out there. Rather, I’m sitting just inside a front window, woolgathering. Though, in fact, it’s not woolgathering that I’m doing, literal or figurative. Just now I’ve been spending our prescribed aloneness running through gratefully the crowd of adults who shaped my once young man’s values. And one of those was my Great Aunt…
Numbers Steady On Coronavirus COOPERSTOWN – Local infestations of the coronavirus are continuing at a minimal level. Overnight, a single new case was reported, raising Otsego County’s infestations to 62, according to county Public Health Director Heidi Bond. Two people are hospitalized, down from three yesterday; 46 people have recovered, the same as yesterday.…
BOUND VOLUMES April 30, 2020 200 YEARS AGO A Law Case (Leesburgh, Virginia): An action to recover damages for a breach of promise of a marriage contract was tried in the Supreme Court before the Hon. Judge White. The circumstances attending the case were of a very interesting nature, and excited a lively feeling on behalf of the plaintiff, whose character was proved to have been correct and exemplary. She was the daughter of a widow in a humble station…
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GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Tuesday, 4/27 Want To Open? Cuomo: Here’s How You Do It Governor Lists 12 Steps Toward Getting To The ‘New Normalcy’ ALBANY – Governor Cuomo Tuesday outlined 12 guidelines the Empire State’s regions must follow to move out of State of Emergency restrictions. In addition to the Mohawk Valley Economic Development Region, which includes Otsego County, they are Capital Region, Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City, North Country, Long Island, Southern Tier and Western New…
USA TODAY COLUMN: INDUCTION MAY NOT BE HELD IN 2020 COOPERTOWN – The Hall of Fame is expected to announce this week that their induction ceremony weekend, scheduled to take place July 24-26, will be postponed until 2021, according to USA Today’s baseball columnist Bob Nightengale. His column said the Hall of Fame is scheduled to meet this week with its board of directors this week before finalizing a decision, but with the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country –…
Treated For COVID, Assemblyman Miller Out Of Intensive Care NEW HARTFORD – After a month and a day in ICU, Assemblyman Brian Miller, a Republican who represents four Otsego County towns, is out of St. Luke’s Hospital’s intensive care unit in Utica and beginning “the next phase of healing and recovery.” Miller’s 101st District includes the towns of Springfield, Middlefield, Westford and Maryland in Otsego County. “There are no words to express the amount of appreciation I have for the…
3 More Cases Found; One Person Recovers COOPERSTOWN – Three more cases of COVID-19 surfaced overnight, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond reported a few minutes ago, bringing the total Otsego County cases to 61. Overnight, one more person recovered from the illness, raising recoveries from 45 to 46. Three remain hospitalized, same as yesterday. And the reported deaths remain at four.…
Democrat, Republican Primaries Planned Here Congress, Assembly Candidates Vie COOPERSTOWN – While New York State’s 2020 Democratic presidential primary was cancelled yesterday, Otsego County Republicans and Democrats will go to the polls 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, where each party will settle one race. • 19th Congressional District — Republican voters will decide between Kyle Van De Water, a Millbrook lawyer, and Ola Hawatmeh, a fashion designer from Poughkeepsie. The winner will face U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado on Nov.…