City Hall Issues Warning To Newcomers: Check In With County, Quarantine ONEONTA – City Hall today encouraged landlords to only rent apartments to people from out of town “under conditions of great urgency.” Newcomers “will be expected” to self-quarantine for 14 days and to notify the county Department of Health on their arrival, said in a statement from the city clerk’s office. “While we are fortunate to have excellent healthcare facilities in our community,” said Mayor Gary Herzig in an…
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5 More COVID-19 Cases In County, Rising To 29 Total COOPERSTOWN – As of 5 p.m., five more COVID-19 cases surfaced today in Otsego County, raising the total to 29, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond announced. Of the 29 total cases, three are hospitalized, and six have recovered and are off isolation. There still has been only one death.…
IN MEMORIAM: Julia Fassett, Retired CV, Fort Plain Teacher EAST SPRINGFIELD – Julia A. Fassett, a retired Cherry Valley and Fort Plain teacher, died peacefully in her sleep at home on Friday, April 3, 2020. She was born in 1926, in Schenectady, the daughter of Emilo and Rose Parillo Genovesi. On June 24, 1951, she married Kenneth L. Fassett of East Springfield at St. Thomas Church in Cherry Valley.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, SUNDAY, 4/5 Federal Government Sends 1,000 Workers To Help NY OVER WEEKEND, OTSEGO TALLY ROSE FROM 23 TO 29 ALBANY – At his briefing today, Governor Cuomo announced the federal government has deployed 1,000 federal workers to help fight coronavirus at the “most stressed hospitals” in New York State. “I know how much we are asking of our health care workers on the frontline,,” he said, “and I thank them for everything they are doing because they are…
Delgado Signs Onto Bipartisan Statement: Hands Off Ventilators Today, Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, signed a bipartisan statement opposing Governor Cuomo’s order allowing National Guard to remove ventilators from Upstate hospitals for transport to the New York metropolitan area. “We stand ready to help our fellow New Yorkers,” said the signators, who included Delgado, “but moving needed ventilators from our region now would be devastating and counter intuitive to all data on the spread of COVID-19.”…
SEWARD OFF VENTILATOR MILFORD – Cindy Seward just reported she has spoken to her husband, state Sen. Jim Seward, and he reported the ventilator he was on was removed this afternoon. “Of course he will still need monitoring, but I thank you all for your outpouring for us!!” she reported. Seward, who is battling the coronavirus, was put on the ventilator Thursday morning and Albany Medical Center, and was soon showing some signs of improvement.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, SATURDAY, 4/4 Donated Surgical Masks, Ventilators Pour Into NY ALBANY – Governor Cuomo at today’s briefing announced donations that included a million surgical masks each from the NBA and two Chinese Foundations, plus 1,000 ventilators and 100,000 pairs of goggles. The Joseph and Clara Tsai Foundation and Jack Ma Foundation were the donors, and the gift was facilitated by the Chinese government and Ambassador Huang Ping, the Chinese consul general in New York City, the governor said. The…
CINDY SEWARD ON HUSBAND’S HEALTH Senator ‘Slightly Improved,’ But ‘Next Few Days Crucial’ MILFORD – “The next few days are crucial” for state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who has “slightly improved” since being placed in a medically induced coma Thursday morning at Albany Medical Center, his wife Cindy told the Milford community in a Facebook post this afternoon. She said the briefing was prompted by “all of our friends in our Milford community who have reached out with care, concern,…
3 REPUBLICANS TELL GOVERNOR: Keep Hands Off Upstate Ventilators COOPERSTOWN – Three key Republicans representing Otsego County issued a statement today calling Governor Cuomo’s plan to “seize” ventilators and PPE equipment from Upstate hospitals “dangerous” and “just plain wrong.” They are county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, who is running to succeed state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Assemblymen John Salka, R-Brookfield, whose district includes Oneonta and Cooperstown, and Chris Tague, R-Schoharie, whose district includes Cherry Valley, Roseboom, Decatur and Worcester.…
NEW YORK STATE’S 2020-21 BUDGET Cuomo Cites Fracking Ban, $700M For ‘Mother Nature’ ALBANY – Governor Cuomo called the state’s 2020-21 budget, passed at 3 a.m. yesterday, “extraordinary,” according to the press statement from his office. “I understand we’re all consumed with the coronavirus situation but we have to be able to walk and chew gum,” the governor said after the passage, adding “the budget was difficult because the state has no money, … and we came up with a…