COUNTY TRIES OUT Hyper-Reach® Ring, Ring. Who Is It? Probably Dave Bliss He Wants YOU To Fight the Coronavirus COOPERSTOWN – If your phone rang in the last few minutes, it may have been Dave Bliss with this message: “This is David Bliss, Otsego County Board chair, with a reminder that we all must take personal responsibility to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Governor has ordered only essential businesses can be open. No social gatherings for any reason.…
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Stay Home This Easter, DOH Advises Some Positive Trends Continuing. Bond Says: Keep Them That Way COOPERSTOWN – “Adhered to the stay home order,” the Otsego County Department of Health is advising citizens as we enter the Easter Weekend. “Many people typically celebrate Easter/Passover by gathering with family and friends. However,” county Public Health Director Heidi Bond said a few minutes ago, “…you should not be gathering with anyone who does not live in your home. “…
SENATOR’S PROGRAM TRIED HERE ‘Hop On Books’ Brings 675 To Kids At Home By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With schools and libraries closed, Laurie Zimniewicz was worried that kids stuck at home wouldn’t have access to other worlds. “Books help you go on an adventure in your mind,” she said. “It opens us to places we can’t be, and that’s so important when you’re sheltering-in-place.” Inspired by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who put together a…
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CLICK FOR TENTATIVE 2020-21 BUDGET Village Budget Hearing Monday On YouTube Written, Emailed Inputs Due By 6 p.m. 4/13 COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board will convene a public hearing on the 2020-21 budget via video-conferencing on Zoom at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 13. Citizens may view the meeting at the village’s www.YouTube.com channel (Cooperstown Village Hall) or by clicking on the YouTube link for the meeting at www.cooperstownny.org. The budget may be reviewed by clicking link at top of this…
Bogus Officer Stopping Traffic, Issuing ‘Travel Ban’ Warnings ONEONTA – State Police are investigating two incidents of who allegedly impersonated a trooper to conduct traffic stops and harass drivers over a non-existent “travel ban.” According to Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C Public Information Officer, the suspect – likely the same person in both instances, she noted – allegedly pulled over two cars in late March. The individual then asked the purpose of the motorists’ travel and warned they would be…
Birthday Party Cancelled? Have A Parade Instead! There was lots of hooting, hollering and horn-blowing on Elm Street in Oneonta this afternoon as 13 cars filled with friends, family, teachers and classmates, all dressed in costumes with signs and decorations, were escorted by Oneonta police in a birthday parade for Zoey Tonner, who turned 7 today. “The invitations were ready, the treat bags were all made, then everything shut down,” explained her mother Danielle. “We had to cancel her party…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, WEDNESDAY, 4/8 At Last, Trends Show COVID-19 May Be On Wane To Keep Decline Going, Governor Urges Citizens Not To Back-Slide ALBANY – At last, good news. Despite a record daily death toll. Governor Cuomo told New Yorkers at today’s briefing: “What we are doing is actually working and it’s making a difference … It is flattening the curve and we see that again today so far.” While New Yorkers must continue to be “rigorous” with social-distancing, hand-washing…
UPDATE: SENATOR OUT OF ICU Seward Off Ventilator, On Road To Recovery MILFORD – As with everything since the coronavirus arrived in Otsego County, things moved quickly. When the last edition of this newspaper went to press on Tuesday, March 31, the news was state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and his wife, Cindy, had been stricken with COVID-19. It was announced the day before that the senator was being treated at Albany Medical Center, and Cindy was recuperating at their…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 09-10, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Downstate Ventilator-Grab Stalls, Streck Says Off Ventilator, Senator Seward Now Out Of ICU County May Lose Equivalent Of 2/3 Of Tax Levy 3 Healthcare Workers Ill, Maybe Not Bassett’s Cooperstown Man’s Father Dies Of COVID-19 Front Line Profile: County IT Director Pokorny County’s Wheels Of Justice Turn – Virtually AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Walkin’ Off The Coronavirus Blahs Desperate Calls Fast-Track Better Visor Libby’s List…