COVID-19 Cases Triple In County By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Last Tuesday, Nov. 17, there were 37 new cases of COVID-19 reported. In the seven days since, that number tripled to 126 by Nov. 24, with hospitalizations up two, from four to six, since last week, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health Director. That makes the highest number of community cases – that’s not counting the 700-plus SUNY Oneonta outbreak – since the pandemic…
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EDITORIAL Pilgrims’ Energy, Ambition Lives On Today ‘Tribute to the Entrepreneurial Spirit.” That’s what the Otsego Chamber of Commerce called its annual awards program on Nov. 12, conducted this year largely via Zoom. That rallying call couldn’t have come at a better time, given this year’s challenges – a pandemic, a particularly divisive Presidential election, and riots in cities and challenges to the very idea of policing. The stories the Otsego Chamber’s honorees were a tonic. Liberty lives, and a…
LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Chickie’s Greatest Gift When I was 8 years old, the hero in my life was my cousin Chickie, who drove an oil truck and often took me with him on deliveries. The job led him all over Brooklyn and, being somewhat of a scavenger, he often came home with a bike or a wagon or some other discarded contraption he thought would be useful. We lived in Bensonhurst, in a 12-room Victorian that had been divided…
After Downturn, Sale, Ioxus Returns To Expand Building And Workforce By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Ioxus was going strong, with manufacturing plants here and in Japan, and a growing reputation as producer of the best ultracapacitor in the world. Then, in 2019 it hit a bump: Its best-selling product, uSTART, a “smart power system” that “dramatically increases the starting reliability of trucks and heavy machines,” had to be recalled. “That set us back,” said Walton-born Chad…
Community Foundation: Apply For 2021 Grants COOPERSTOWN – Our COVID Fund has now secured $220,000 to address many needs arising out of the pandemic. We issued 25 awards to date and have about $40,000 remaining to distribute. Next Up is our plan for 2021. Our board has authorized allocation of $200,000 to the 2021 Awards Round. “We need community input on how to focus our investing these funds,” said Harry Levine, foundation board president. Twenty-five non-profits have received funding so…
Rocky Takes Flight Ravensbeard Wildlife Center released this footage of Rocky, the Saw-whet owl who was found huddled inside “Daddy Al” Dick’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, taking flight back into nature less than one week after she was brought to the animal sanctuary to recover from her three-day journey. Though her location was closely guarded, it is believed she was released near the Saugerties-based sanctuary, in order to keep with her migration pattern.…
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As COVID Cases Rise, Oneonta Schools Go Virtual Until January By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With COVID cases topping 126 county-wide this past week, including five Oneonta Elementary School staff members and one high school student, Superintendent Thomas Brindley announced that all schools will go fully remote until Tuesday, Jan. 19. “Concerns associated with our community’s rising COVID-19 cases, recent cases that have affected our schools, uncertainty of what the holiday impact may have on COVID…
IN MEMORIAM Bernice ‘Bunny’ Joseph, 94; Well-Known Oneonta Painter ONEONTA – Bernice “Bunny” Joseph, 94, a noted Oneonta painter and mother of photographer Stephen Joseph, died Saturday, Nov. 21. She was born on April 20, 1926. She married Howard Joseph in 1947 and they were married 73 years before his passing on Jan. 25, 2020.…
SAGA OF A SMALL BIRD After Wild Ride, Rockefeller Owl To Fly Free Tonight By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Rocky, the Saw-whet owl found inside “Daddy Al” Dick’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, will be released this evening into a conifer forest near Saugerties, where she has spent the last week rehabilitating after her three-day, 170 mile journey from Oneonta to Manhattan. When we picked Rocky up she was struggling,” said Ellen Kalish, Ravensbeard Wildlife Center Director and…
