Village Gives Thanks To Retiring Barown Mayor Praises Her Institutional Knowledge, Efficiency, Expertise By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Despite the rain, they came to praise her: Teri Barown, village administrator for the past five years and village clerk for 10 before that. “Teri’s leadership abilities were always apparent and so very valued,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who also emceed the ceremony. “…All have benefited from her professional and skillful handling of village administration. “She…
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Big Crowds Turn Out For Oneonta Halloween While the annual Halloween parade may not be on, that gave throngs of ghouls, ghosts, superheroes and princesses all the more reason to head downtown for the annual trick-or-treating event on this afternoon on Main street in Oneonta. Above, Brendan DeFalco, a brother with Chi Phi fraternity, hands out candy outside Tokyo Japanese Cuisine to Oneonta’s Reese Robinson and Rowan and Wyatt Keto. At right, Benjamin Reese shows how to walk like a…
Otsego County Tops 1K COVID Cases Since Spring COOPERSTOWN – With 12 Hartwick College students testing positive for COVID-19 today, the county has reported 1,011 cases of the virus since the pandemic started this spring, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director. “We are busier now than we were in April,” she said. “We have more cases now. People are getting lax with social distancing, they’re gathering with friends and family and not wearing masks.”…
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SQSPCA ‘HOWL’OWEEN’ UNDERWAY Avoid $100-200 Adoption Fee, Bring Home New Pet By early afternoon today, 11 dogs and cats had been adopted from the Susquehanna SPCA’s shelter in Hartwick Seminary, part of a two-day waiver of adoption fees enabled by the second annual “Howl’oween” Pet Adoption Event.” A $5,000 grant, from ASPCA and Five Star, is allowing the waiver of the usual $100-200 adoption fee, according to SQSPCA’s Darla Youngs. This year, because of COVID-19, reservations are required (call 547-8111),…
Smithsonian Secretary: Museums Bring Us Closer By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One afternoon, while walking through the Smithsonian’s exhibit of Emmett Till’s glass-topped casket, Secretary Lonnie Bunch III saw a young African-American woman sitting on a bench, sobbing. “I was about to go over to her, but a white man approached her and said, ‘I’m crying too. Can we cry together?’ And they hugged. That’s what museums can do. Museums can help us come together, share…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DENNIS CRAIG MAN of THE HOUR Can Hero Of Purchase Save SUNY Oneonta? By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For SUNY Oneonta’s interim President Dennis Craig, 55, it’s all about how you react to a crisis. “In tough incidents, sometimes you’re more defined by your response than by the incident itself,” he said, whether cheating, an instance of bias, a suicide, even a murder. When that happens, “I’m all about transparency and…
27 STUDENTS POSITIVE SO FAR Hartwick Reports 12 COVID-19 Cases ONEONTA – With 12 new cases reported this morning, Hartwick College now has 27 students who have tested positive for COVID-19 following an outbreak that was traced to Red’s Ale House. This puts the college halfway to mandatory closure, per the state’s guidelines. According to Paula Lee Hobson, VP, College Advancement, 58 students – five percent of the on-campus population – would need to test positive in order to prompt…
LANGWORTHY IN COOPERSTOWN GOP Chief Barnstorms Locally On Election Eve With four days to go until Election Day for federal and state offices, state Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy stopped in Cooperstown this morning to rally the local party faithful on the first stop of a Central New York tour. He decried “AOC Wannabes” and the state’s leftward shift, raising concerns about bail reform and plans to give illegal residents the right to vote. He was joined by the local GOP…
LETTER from ALLEN ANDERSON Election May Preserve Our Flawed, Free Nation To the Editor: If this is not the most important election in my lifetime, it nonetheless ranks as one that I feel is more important than most. In the last four years there has been a consistent and unrelenting drum beat of negativism surrounding our country and our president, his character, and the state of the nation. There have been street riots, calls for social justice, accusations from every…