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Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal BASSETT HOLDS OWN – SO FAR Numbers Climb, But More Tests Available, Beds Not Lacking Yet By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Heneghan LeCates COOPERSTOWN – Nine days ago there were no Coronavirus patients among people who called Otsego County home. As of Tuesday, March 31, there were 16. And one of those, Brenda Utter of Morris, has died. Patients range in age from 20 to 75, county health officials said. There…
Police: Woman Spit On Bassett Employees COOPERSTOWN – A woman was arrested after she allegedly spit on Bassett Hospital employees and told them she had COVID-19, according to Cooperstown Police Officer David Kaminski. “A female was being seeing by staff at Bassett when she became irate and began spitting in several staff member’s faces,” said Kaminski. “She then told them she had coronavirus.”…
LETTER from SAM WILCOX 2nd Amendment Relic Of Early Republic To the Editor: Otsego County is facing a proposal to declare this county a “gun sanctuary.” This would mean that our county board would ban compliance with the Safe Act passed by the state Legislature in 2013. That act promoted, among other things, background checks, banning assault weapons, and limiting ammunition. It was not anti-gun, rather it was pro-gun safety. However, the Safe Act has been perceived as a violation…
LETTER from NICOLE DILLINGHAM Fold Fracking Ban Into Governor’s Budget Editor’s Note: Since the print edition went to press, the Governor’s Budget, agreed to Wednesday, April 1, included a fracking ban. To the Editor: The emergency now unfolding due to the coronavirus is not the only global crisis we are facing. The threat of global warming also requires state-wide, indeed global, response. The damage climate change is causing should not be ignored in the hope that it will magically disappear.…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER The Question Of Out-Of-Towners By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FOR: First is the idea that all have the right to remove their family from a place of apparent danger to a place seen to be safer. Second is the economic idea that second-home owners have the absolute right to relocate to those homes, which they own and pay taxes on. Presumably that is also true if a city resident can afford to rent…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Why Wasn’t More Done Sooner? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Over the last several days I reviewed a great deal of material regarding COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus. I looked at videos. I read scientific and lay papers. I scanned media reports. All to determine what to write about. It was like drinking from a fire hose. But the Monday, March 30, announcement by Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, THURSDAY, 4/2 85,400 People Sign Up To Serve In NYS Crisis ALBANY – Here at the highlights of today’s coronavirus briefing by Governor Cuomo: • 21,000 Out-of-State Individuals Have Volunteered to Work in New York’s Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic; 85,400 Health Professionals Have Signed up to Volunteer as Part of the State’s Surge Healthcare Force to Date…
EDITORIAL A Charming Couple, Shocking News – And A Warning To All That Otsego County’s first couple, state Sen. Jim and Cindy Seward, contracted coronavirus is a wake-up call for the rest of us. If it can happen to them, it can happen to any one of us. By the nature of their public roles, the Sewards inevitably come into contact with a wide range of people, one, it turns out, who was carrying COVID-19. It’s the rare Otsego County…
EDITORIAL County Avoids ‘Reactive, Emotional’ Measures Here Visitors Asked To Take Sensible Steps To Protect Themselves, Us By now you’ve heard about Rhode Island: Last Friday, it had state police stopping cars with New York license plates at the state line, and instructing passengers they must self-quarantine for 14 days if they planned to stay in Ocean State. The next day, National Guard troops went door to door in coastal areas, advising any Empire Staters who had gotten out of…