HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, APRIL 20 Looking At Art For Inspiration WRITERS INSPIRATION – 2 p.m. Learn how writers can be inspired by art by looking closely at works to glean meaning, stories, ideas to propel your writing. Free, registration required. Presented by The Arkell Museum. 518-673-2314 ext. 113 or visit www.arkellmuseum.org/events-calendar…
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SUNY Helps Public 2,000 Flyers Distributed By Students Over 50 SUNY Oneonta students have joined forces in an effort to spread the word about the availability of COVID vaccinations to communities across Otsego County. “We organized this within days” said Linda Drake, director of the college’s Center for Social Responsibility & Community, which organized the effort. “Students made schedules in 24 hours and we have every mobile home park and low income housing development from New Berlin to Sidney. It’s…
SUNY Oneonta Students Share Fears, Hopes Diary Of The Plague Year Edited By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Last March, SUNY Oneonta sent students home. Amidst massive disruption, Adjunct History Professor Ann Trainor was struck by the historic nature of the event. She encouraged her students and others to record diaries of their experiences. Reading through these diary entries a year later feels like time travel, the experiences familiar while the perspectives seem naïve. “I really thought we…
Bassett Hits Home Run Goal Is 120,000 Shots In One Hundred Days State Approves ‘Massive Vaccination Site’ In SUNY Oneonta, To Begin On Thursday By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In a “vaccine desert,” suddenly there’s an oasis. After weeks of lobbying and some heightened expectation, it’s here: Bassett Healthcare Network announced Tuesday afternoon, March 16, that a COVID-19 “massive vaccination site” would be opening two days later, the 18th, in SUNY Oneonta’s Dewar Field House. The clinic, staffed…
Governor Gives Blessing To Site At Dewar Arena Opening Delayed A Day, Until Friday By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The opening of the COVID-19 mass-vaccination site has been delayed a day, until Friday, but Governor Cuomo today confirmed the initiative is a go. “We have a wide network of COVID vaccination sites and the state is moving full steam ahead opening even more,” the governor said today in announcing nine state-run sites and the 10th, at…
IN MEMORIAM Reuben James, 88; Chaired SUNY Physics Department ONEONTA – Word has been received that Dr. Reuben James, Ph.D. Ed.D., age 88, died Jan. 18, 2021. He was a SUNY Oneonta physics professor from 1960 to 1997, including 12 years as department chairman. Reuben was valedictorian of his high school class, and graduated from SUNY Potsdam and St. Lawrence University. He then attended Clarkson, University of Pennsylvania, and SUNY Buffalo. He taught science and math in a three Upstate…
Campus Cases Up C-19 Rates Still Outstrip Rest Of County By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 cases have continued to rise among students at Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta, despite best efforts by both colleges, even while the rate of infection has declined elsewhere in Otsego County. The campuses have been the source of one third of all cases in the county in 2021, and rose to 47 percent of cases in one 10-day period, the county Health…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, MARCH 11 ‘Outsmarting The Pandemic’ Webinar WEBINAR SERIES – 7 p.m. Online series ‘Outsmarting the Pandemic’ continues with presentation ‘COVID-19 Vaccines: Worth A Shot’ on the how the vaccines work, how modern vaccines are developed, more. Free, registration required. Presented by A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-2011 or visit www.eventbrite.com/o/science-discovery-center-and-planetarium-14332374215…
From Oneonta To Fame Locally, Ibram Kendi Recalled For Honesty, A Gentle Disposition By MIKE FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Before Ibram X. Kendi was Ibram X. Kendi, he was Ibram Rogers and he taught at SUNY Oneonta. Kendi, a history professor and now director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has built his academic career on the study of racism. He views racism – rather than race itself—as a defining feature of American history and…
For The Love Of Boating Since 1975, Larger Boats On Otsego Lake, But Owners Using More Smaller Craft, Too Editor’s Note: Bill Harman has led SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake since its founding. Historically, as in all our inland lakes after the original European settlement, rowboats, canoes, and sailboats capable of carrying a few passengers dominated Otsego Lake. Early on it provided a corridor between the waters of the Mohawk drainage and the Southern Atlantic states via…
