THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 23-24, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Community Foundation To Fight Threat As Demand Dips, Farms Dump Milk Streck: As Scourge Declines, Stay Vigilant Symbol Of Endurance Buoys Church AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Tee A Puddy Tat Anytime, Virtually With Elena’s Michael, Dine Together Apart Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIAL Now, We All Have Chance To Do Good COLUMNS LEVINE: Building A Foundation Together SEWARD: On Mend, He Turns…
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LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 What’s All This Testing About? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com At his Sunday, April 19, press conference, Governor Cuomo reported his 22-year-old daughter had asked him, “What’s all this testing about?” He seemed to be a little surprised by the question. He said he thought he was explaining this well during his previous press conferences but realized he had not been getting his points across to everybody. He went over this again.…
HOMETOWN History April 24, 2020 150 Years Ago News Items – The Buffalonians are taking 90 pound sturgeon. On April 4, a foot of snow fell at Scranton, Pennsylvania. There are over 250,000 Odd Fellows in the United States. Wyoming farmers plow with tame Buffalo. Rhode Island has abolished imprisonment for debt. Lotteries are not tolerated in Russia – not even for religious purposes. There are said to be 500,000 French Canadians in the United States. Steps are being taken…
EDITORIAL In Time Of Trial, All Of Us Have A Chance To Do Good Otsego County is blessed with generous foundations. The Clark Foundation and its spinoffs have, of course, been transformative, and continue to be, with supporting the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore and Farmers’ museums, Glimmerglass Opera and more than $10 million in college scholarships to top local students countywide since the 1960s. The Clark’s Scriven Foundation is focused exclusively within the county, and it’s the rare…
ALBANY PERSPECTIVE On Mend, Seward Turns Sights On Coronavirus I want to start this week’s column with a heartfelt THANK YOU to all who have reached out to me and my wife Cindy over the past few weeks as we both battled the Novel Coronavirus. Your well wishes and prayers meant a great deal and gave us both strength during our fight against this sinister virus. As the pandemic continues there are so many on the front lines that are…
LETTER TO EDITOR from JUDITH PACHTER The Answer: Choose People Over Money To the Editor: As a former registered nurse and a retired financial adviser, I see both sides of this horrendous dilemma. But in my mind, there is no amount of money that is worth one death that could have been prevented. We sit in our isolated homes in rural Central New York and feel a bit sorry for ourselves because we cannot do or should not do what…
Building A Foundation – Together Community Foundation Takes Aim At COVID-19 By HARRY LEVINE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 has changed our world. Our community faces dire health and economic shocks that have disrupted our way of life and will continue to affect us for the foreseeable future. The Community Foundation of Otsego County was created in 2019 with the mission of improving the quality of life for all the Otsego County area. We were about to publicly announce our…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Yoga, Art Together; A Brisk Road Race, And Poetry Galore! Take a few moments for spiritual development amid the stress of quarantine with the annual Spiritual Arts Fair, now in a virtual format! Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26. www.facebook.com/isdoneonta/ • What better way to relax than with art and yoga? Mary Murray leads an art talk about the Munson Williams Proctor galleries, followed by a yoga class with Lisa Gallagher. 10 a.m. Saturday, April 25, www.facebook.com/MWPAI. • Get outside…
At Virtual Animal Shelter, You Can …TEE A PUDDY TAT… Whenever You Feel Like IT By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Wylie understands the frustration and boredom of quarantine. “When Wylie came into our shelter, he had been attacked by either a fox or a coyote,” said Terra Butler, Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans director and founder. “Because we couldn’t find the animal that attacked him, we couldn’t get it tested for rabies. Most shelters would have…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from VERA TALEVI All Prayed, And Things Started To Happen To the Editor: Thank you all for the wonderful response to last Wednesday 3 o’clock prayers. I know our prayers have helped – two weeks in a row there was good news reported: On April 8, the good news was the CURVE WAS FLATTENING and then on April 16 – again, a day after our Wednesday prayers – the good news was not only had the…