Developer Shows Off Artist’s Loft Successes By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BEACON – Developer Ken Kearney, founder of Kearney Group, got a call one day from a friend. “He said, ‘Have you heard of Oneonta?’” he recounted. “I sent my son Sean up to take a look and he said, ‘Get up here, I think you’ll like it.’” Kearney, who has built artist lofts in Peekskill, Beacon and Poughkeepsie, has received approvals to put one of his affordable…
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Joe Membrino Impressed By Village ‘Stewardship’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In Washington D.C., getting appointed to a municipal board takes connections and a lot of lobbying. So when Joe Membrino, who is running for a three-year term on the Village Board March 18, and wife Martha retired to Cooperstown in 2013 and he considered ways of getting involved in the community, public office didn’t come to mind. That is, until his sister, Milford Town Board…
Editorial Inspired By 5 Heroes At Fire Scene, Consider Joining Good Samaritans What’s happened in the past week is another opportunity to be impressed about the brave men and women who respond, in dark of night and bright of day, any hour, any day, when fires and accidents happen in Otsego County. Training and experience have made mishaps so rare, we forget – certainly the public, but volunteers and ambulance squad members, too – that every fire call and crash…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from LISA R. BASSETT Make Lettis Safer: Run Buses Until 9 p.m. To the Editor: Regarding the headline in your Jan. 2 edition, “NYDOT Said ‘No’ To Grant At Lettis,” I am really sorry that the transportation grant, applied for by the Town and City of Oneonta, was turned down. But, come to think of it, all of that requested money is not necessary. The lady, April Johnson, crossed the highway 100 yards from a legal pedestrian…
‘Ball of White Fire’ Engulfs Volunteers By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MIDDLEFIELD – By the time the explosions began – “a ball of white fire,” according to one witness – that came from inside the burning garage in this hamlet on Wednesday, Feb. 26, it was too late. “It started as this small white ball, and then it became this massive white flame that shot 100 feet out of the building,” said Cooperstown Fire Chief Jim Tallman. “The…
Memories Of Emmons Explosion Still Strong By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Retired Oneonta Fire Chief Norm Jacobson described the Colliersville train derailment as “like five nuclear bombs going off.” Last week’s garage fire in Middlefield, which sent five firefighters to the hospital, drew comparisons to the derailment on Feb. 12, 1974, near what is now the I-88 overpass. “I was on duty that day, and a number of departments responded,” he said. “Seven cars, each carrying…
Coronavirus May Be No Deadlier Than Flu Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of an editorial, co-written by Anthony Fauci, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other experts, that appears in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. A degree of clarity is emerging from this report, (“Early transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China,” Li Q. Guan X and colleagues, New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 29.) The median age of the patients was 59…
Bassett Getting Ready To Deter Coronavirus By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If you’re looking for masks and hand sanitizer to minimize the chances of contracting Coronavirus (COVID-19), you’ll have to look elsewhere – Church & Scott is out. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said David Adsit, co-owner and pharmacist. “As soon as the news broke, people started buying them up, and we can’t get any more.” Though he had plenty of hand sanitizer in stock,…
BOUND VOLUMES March 5, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from the New York State Comptroller’s Report: Funds of the State excluding 970 thousand acres of land, yet unsold, and of the funds appropriated for the Common Schools, and for the promotion of literature: $3,500,754; Funds appropriated for the Common Schools: $1,229,076; Funds for the promotion of literature: 132,529; The yearly revenue of the state, exclusive of what is derivable from lotteries: $782,562. Legislation: Mr. Ruggles reported a bill for the…
VIEW FROM ALBANY COVID-19 Is Here. But It’s Not NY’s First Rodeo As you may have heard, last night we learned of the first confirmed case of novel coronavirus – or Covid 19 – in New York State. The patient is a woman in her late 30s who was traveling abroad in Iran, where there is an outbreak of the virus. Her condition is mild, and she is currently isolated in her home in Manhattan. From the beginning, we have…