Streck Says Downstate Ventilator-Grab Stalls Deal: For Now, Only Inventory Required By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – National Guard troops will not be taking ventilators from upstate hospitals for use in downstate hospitals hit hard by the coronavirus. In an executive order signed Tuesday, April 7, Governor Cuomo backtracked on statements made Friday about issuing an executive order to requisition medical supplies, including 20 percent of unused ventilators, and having the National Guard help ensure compliance. Instead,…
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LIBBY’S BEST BETS Clark, Y At Home, Yoga For The Kids And Dance Parties By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If the weather is lousy or you just don’t feel like going outside, there are plenty of low-cost (or free!) online fitness classes, from Zumba and yoga to chair workouts and cardio, from kids to grandparents. • The Clark Sports Center offers Pound classes, chair and at-home workouts and even a series for kids on their YouTube channel, all…
Samaritans Work ‘Round Clock To Fill Need Desperate Callers Spur Fast-Tracking Of A Better Visor By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com UTICA – Every day, Ivan Potocnik gets calls from people across the state, begging him for help. “The head of nursing from a hospital on Long Island just broke down crying,” he said. “She was telling me that there’s just not enough personal protective equipment, and it’s contributing to the spread. I wish that was uncommon, but we…
HOMETOWN History April 10, 2020 50 Years Ago The changes taking place on the surface of our Earth with which the hand of man has nothing to do are very remarkable. The Islands of Jersey and Guernsey are slowly sinking. People anxious to see them need not be in a hurry, but their places will, perhaps someday, be marked with lightships anchored to what is now fertile soil. Meanwhile, new islands rise in another hemisphere and Chile and Sweden are…
BOUND VOLUMES April 9, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Newbern, North Carolina – An alligator, weighing 900 pounds, measuring 12 feet in length, and pronounced to be 33 years old, was recently killed in this vicinity, brought to town, and exhibited as a curiosity. This hideous monster had been assailed…upwards of 100 buck shot were found in his carcass which had hardly penetrated his “coat of mail” and seemed to have caused him no inconvenience. When last discovered, the old offender…
3 HEALTHCARE WORKERS ILL They May Not Be Working At Bassett Hospital, Though By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Three of the 33 in-county people who tested positive in Otsego County are healthcare workers, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond announced for the first time in her Tuesday, April 7, tally. However, where they worked and how they became infected with coronavirus is, for now, unknown. Bassett spokeswoman Karen Huxtable-Hooker would not confirm or deny that the individuals…
LETTER from FRANK WINKLER Trump Undid What Obama Did, Including Pandemic Responders To the Editor: Mike Zagata (column, 3/26-27) wants to defend President Trump and pass the blame to others on ending the Pandemic Response Team. This (like everything else President Obama did), Trump has gone out of his way to destroy. Trump has never accepted any responsibility for actions under his control. The Trump administration fired the U.S. Pandemic Response Team in 2018 to cut costs. As editor do…
BE AFRAID, BUT TO IT ANYWAY What’s In A Name? Now, If It Were Erina… Is it nature? Or is it nurture? My friend is a twin. Her sister is totally her opposite. They look different. My friend is a beautiful woman whom you can tell has been to the best boarding schools, finishing school and universities. Traveled the world, lived in high society. Meanwhile, her twin who grew up with the same parents, in the same room, same school…
IN MEMORIAM: Robin Joy Hartzel, 64; Oneonta Native Was Artist, Navy Veteran ONEONTA – Oneonta native Robin Joy Hartzel, 64, of Evansville, Ind., a Navy veteran and artist, passed away Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at Deaconess Midtown Hospital there. She was born Aug. 25, 1955, in Oneonta, to the late Clifford and Anni (Bech) Gray. Robin was very proud of her Danish heritage. Robin loved to camp. She was very artistic and used her artistic skills to carve realistic life-like…