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Village Board Attendees Can Sit 6-Feet-Plus Apart Monthly Meeting Moved To Ballroom COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board’s monthly meeting is Monday, and Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch announced it will proceed as scheduled, but – adapting to the Coronavirus threat – will be moved from the basement meeting room at 22 Main to the second-floor ballroom. This will allow attendees to space themselves 6 feet apart, as recommended by “social distancing” guidelines. While the trustees and Village Administrator Teri Barown will…
DAY 5 OF COUNTY EMERGENCY So Far, No COVID-19 Otsego County Cases Bassett Expects Some, But So Far It’s Treating Only 1, From Herkimer By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There are still no cases of Otsego County residents testing positive for the COVID-19 corona virus. There are, however, four positive cases in the Bassett Healthcare Network catchment area, but only one is being treated presently at a hospital facility. Of the four, two are from Herkimer…
FIGHTING CORONARIVUS Cuomo To Business: Send Half Of Your Employees Home Governor Cuomo today ordered New York State’s business to require half of their employees to work from home. That extends an order that all in-state local governments have been enacting this week. The governor also ordered all malls and bowling alleys to close at the fight against Coronarivus continues.…
Community Bank Shuts All Lobbies Drive-Thrus Open At Branches With Them Community Bank today announced it has closed all of its branch office lobbies, effective at the end of business today. There are 12 branches in Otsego County, including five in Oneonta and two in Cooperstown. Branches without drive-thru capabilities will close temporarily, Senior Vice President Hal Wentworth, who oversees retailed banking, announced. All branch lobbies will be available by appointment only, including locations with and without drive-thru.…
Seward Lists State Resources To Fight COVID-19, Job Loss ALBANY – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, this afternoon released a list of state websites to help his constiuents to connect with state services to fight the Coronavirus infection, or to deal with its impacts, such as job loss. The services include:…
In Blunt Interview, Governor Says State Hospitals Lack Beds Coronavirus’ Peak: Maybe 45 Days, He Tells NYT’s ‘The Daily’ Podcast In a blunt interview on today’s New York Times podcast, “The Daily,” Governor Cuomo said the Coronavirus will require 110,000 hospital beds. “In this state you have 50,000 hospital beds,” he told host Michael Barbara. “Needing 37,000 intensive care unit beds, and having 3,000 ICU beds.” He predicted the disease may peak in 45 days. He said he’s been in…
MOSHIER REPRESENTS NATIONAL CLUB Richfield Man Keeps Antique Trail Makers In The Public Sphere By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – In the early 1960s, as Bob Moshier tells it, if you bought three snowmobiles, you qualified to be a dealer. Looking for a year ’round use for the family’s Otsego Lake marina just north of the Otsego-Springfield town line, William Thayer picked up three Trail Makers. “The first time someone passed Willie on a Ski-Doo, he bought…
Helping World In Need Cooperstown Living Waters Team Visits Plant, Builds Chicken House By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It’s easy to take clean water for granted in Upstate New York, but Susan Jones knows that’s not so everywhere. “In Honduras, most of the water comes from mountain springs fed through plastic pipes,” said Jones. “But it’s often contaminated from wildlife and cattle, so people are drinking raw, not treated water.” Jones, who has headed up the…