IN MEMORIAM Alvin L. Osterhoudt Nov. 24, 1928-April 23, 2020 To My Husband – My Best Friend, We both knew our time on Earth would end. We did not know who would be first to go. God chose you so I would know that all your days of pain are gone and our apart will be not long. Set your sails into the wind and we will someday sail again. Love you forever my amazing husband – my best friend.…
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Helios, OFO Top Recipients Of Community Foundation Grants ONEONTA – Nine community organizations, including Helios Care, Opportunities for Otsego and Catholic Charities, have received more than $65,000 in grants from the Community Foundation for South Central New York to help the fight against COVID-19. “Typically, we support school districts, arts organizations and human services,” said Diane Brown, executive director. “But COVID-19 hit in the middle of our spring grant cycle, so we repurposed our funding.”…
IN MEMORIAM Lois H. Downin, 80 Nov. 13, 1939-April 21, 2020 LAURENS – Lois H. Downin, 80, passed away April 21, 2020, at her home. She was born Nov. 13, 1939, in Worcester, the daughter of John and Marion (Catherine) Riese. Lois worked at A.O. Fox Hospital in Oneonta as an EKG/EEG Technician.…
Future For Oneonta Foundation Offers Mini-Grants To Non-Profits ONEONTA – Citing the “unprecedented” COVID-19 crisis, the Future for Oneonta Foundation has opened applications for mini-grants to non-profits who have been impacted by the shutdowns. “It is our hope to help the Oneonta community through this most difficult time,” the foundation said in a press release sent this evening.…
SIRENS, LIGHTS, HORNS SOUND Fire Companies Salute Our Healthcare Heroes Fire trucks from Cooperstown area companies descended on the corner of Fair Street and Atwell Road – the middle of Bassett Hospital’s campus – at 6:30 p.m. this evening, sirens sounding and horns blowing, in tribute to Bassett Hospital employees who have been on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus. About 100 staffers from the ER, security and other departments poured out onto the lawn, ignoring the…
BAPTISMAL FONT REPAIRED Symbol Of Endurance Buoys Milford Church By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – Three years ago, shortly after the Milford Methodist Church burned down, two members of the congregation, Al Bullard and Bill Triolo, were standing across Route 28 watching a crew of Peruvians from Rohlf’s Stained & Leaded Glass, Mount Vernon, removed “Christ in Gethsemane” and other windows from the ruins. As Bullard remembers it, Triolo, now chairman of church trustees, suggested, “Let’s go…
Bassett CEO Says Scourge Declines, But Stay Vigilant By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rates of positive COVID-19 cases in the Bassett Healthcare Network’s eight-county region, including Otsego, are starting to come down. In the past week, 6-8 percent of tests taken across the Bassett Network’s region were positive. That’s down from 10 percent the week before. In an interview Tuesday, April 21, Bassett Network CEO Bill Streck said there are several possible reasons, one being that the…
As Demand Dips, Farms Dump Milk For Pernat Family, This Is A First In 100 Years By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK VALLEY – Since 1920, Mark Pernat’s family has sold milk from their Fly Creek Valley farm. “My dad always said, ‘If you make the milk, they’ll come buy it,’ said Pernat. But the truck didn’t come on April 5. “Our co-op called and told us we had to dump our milk and we would not be…
LET’S UNITE, FIGHT COVID-19’S THREAT Community Foundation Launches Countywide Relief, Recovery Effort By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The nation’s first community foundation, founded in 1914, is in Cleveland, Ohio, and in recent years it identified a lack of “capital wealth” as preventing the city’s blighted neighborhoods from rebounding. “With a consortium of business people, government organizations and charities, they’ve funded several hundred small businesses in those neighborhoods. “Funding entrepreneurship kept wealth in the community,” said Harry…
VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Better Living Through Plastics By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Governor Cuomo is about to extend the temporary ban on fracking in New York and make it permanent via his budget Bill. Some will cheer that action, but those who understand its unintended consequences won’t be among them. Indeed, they will live in fear of another pandemic where we don’t, as a result of his ban, have access to the materials needed to combat any…