LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID The China Syndrome As I stated in last week’s column, it’s déjà vu all over again. Now the problem is new strains of COVID, which are beginning to take over in many countries including the United States. But more importantly is the rapid spread of multiple COVID sub-variants in China. Initially in response to COVID, the Chinese government came up with a zero tolerance policy. Whole cities were locked down. China developed its own…
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Column by Dr. Richard Sternberg Mr. President, COVID Is NOT Over I like Joe Biden. By that I mean I like him personally. I lived in the state of Delaware, in Sussex County, the southernmost of Delaware’s three counties, between 2000 and 2008. While there are beach communities hugging its eastern Atlantic shore and a small city, Seaford, anomalously hugging its western, most land locked area, the majority of the county is rural. The area is jokingly called Lower Slower…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta September 1, 2022 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Wildlife Rescue Rehabilitation Center Gets Calls 24/7 Weekly Medical News: 09-01-22 Inside The Paper Fernleigh Foundation Provides Grant to SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station The Grand and Glorious Fall Fair Moves to Neahwa Park Helios Care Receives $1,200 Donation $82 Million Grant Will Improve Access to Care, Increase Key Investments in Bassett Staff September Is National Preparedness Month Drnek: We’re All in…
Column by Richard Sternberg Monkeypox Outbreak Worldwide As of today, there been more than 5,200 cases of monkeypox confirmed in the United States. Over 1,300 of those cases have been in New York State, the majority of these in the New York City area. The monkeypox outbreak worldwide continues to increase, and last week the World Health Organization declared it a public health emergency of international concern. There needs to be an internationaly coordinated response to try to control this…
Column by Richard Sternberg, M.D. COVID: Here we go again There are 3006 counties, 14 boroughs, 11 census areas, 64 parishes, and multiple independent cities in the United States. The good news is that The Center for Disease Control reports that only 79 of these have a high incidence of COVID transmission. The bad news is that of the 79, 36 or almost half are in or surround Central New York. Risk in Otsego County is only moderate, but it…
Gift shop Mingo Market’s debut defies pandemic pessimism Why not add a full-line, local-focus gift shop to an already bustling restaurant and boutique in the midst of a pandemic when even the most seasoned merchants can’t be sure of the next set of rules that might change the whole way they have to do business? That’s indeed what Cory Moffat did in May of this year, when she opened the doors of The Mingo Market, on the grounds of Sam…
Omicron Update Monday Nov. 29, 2021 Since our article on Saturday Nov. 27 here is some of the further news about COVID-Omicron. The virus is now identified in over a half dozen European countries (and is likely in most of Europe), Australia, Israel, and Hong Kong. Fourteen people on a plane that landed in the Netherlands coming from South Africa were positive for the Omicron variant. All arriving passengers are now being tested and held until results are available. Japan…
Glimmerglass Festival releasing opera film for free on website The Glimmerglass Festival is releasing ‘The Knock’, a 50 minute opera as a film for free on its website on Veteran’s Day, Thursday, November 11. ‘The Knock’, composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov, was originally slated for a 2020 stage production, but after the pandemic hit, they decided to create the work as a film. The one-act opera is about the wives of military men waiting for news of their husbands. The libretto,…
DiNapoli: Sales tax revenue had huge jump for second quarter of 2021 Sales tax revenue for local governments in New York state rose by 49.2% in the second quarter (April to June 2021) compared to the same period last year, a dramatic increase from last year’s weak collections during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Sales tax collections during this period grew by just over $1.6 billion and even surpassed collections reported…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, JUNE 1 CCS Art Exhibit Opens At Fenimore YOUTH ART EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. CCS students present exhibit ‘Young at Art! Inspired by Community’ sharing their experience of community during the pandemic and how art grew their relationships online and at home. On view through June 26. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.cooperstowncs.org…