HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Botanical Art Workshop ART WORKSHOP – 7 p.m. Join SDC to get started creating botanical illustrations of the natural world around you with artist Tessa Scheele. Zoom workshop presented by A.J. Read Science Discover Center, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-2011 or visit www.facebook.com/AJReadSDC/ for info.…
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Oberacker: NYS Should Send ‘Immediate Financial Relief’ After SUNY-O Crisis County Will Suffer From State Bungling, He Says; Barber Calls For Broader Relief To Localities ONEONTA – The State of New York should provide “immediate financial relief” to Oneonta and surrounding communities for the damage caused by the mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak at SUNY Oneonta, Republican state Senate candidate Peter Oberacker said today. Oberacker, who is running to succeed Jim Seward, R-Milford, in the 51st District, suggested the state…
CLICK HERE FOR CHAMBER LETTER’S TEXT Chamber Chief To Students: Follow Health, Safety Rules ONEONTA – Otsego Chamber of Commerce President Barbara Ann Heegan a few minutes ago issued a plea to SUNY Oneonta students who remain in the community: “Do your part.” “Use good judgment,” she wrote in an “Open Letter to the Community” provided exclusively to www.AllOTSEGO.com. “Follow local, state and federal health and safety guidelines, including the wearing of masks and maintaining social distancing. Be responsible, respectful…
2 PRESIDENTS AT ODDS At SUNY, It’s Partying; At Hartwick, Trespassing By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A photo circulating on social media, purportedly showing a party underway in SUNY Oneonta’s isolation dorm over the weekend, prompted a conversation about the differences in how SUNY and Hartwick colleges are handling the COVID-19 outbreak and quarantines. “I’m concerned by this photo,” said Council member David Rissberger, Third Ward, during the second of Mayor Gary Herzig’s Oneonta Control Room…
All Of 208 Employees Safe, But Student Positives Up 117 ONEONTA – Today, SUNY Oneonta received test results from its earliest employee COVID-19 screenings, conducted on Wednesday, Sept. 2. None of 208 employees tested were positive. Additional test information for students is anticipated this afternoon. As of this morning, the number of students in isolation was 138, up from 117 yesterday evening.…
Numbers Don’t Jibe, But Message Does: COVID’s On A Roll County, SUNY Oneonta Totals 123 Apart ONEONTA – The numbers don’t agree, but they tell the same story: COVID-19 continues its rampage through the SUNY Oneonta community: • At 7:10 this evening, the county Health Department department reported tallying 51 new cases today, 50 at SUNY Oneonta, and the 51st Hartwick College’s third. The total for the past five months is 506, and the SUNY Oneonta total is 384. •…
MALATRAS SHUTS SUNY-O ‘Full Transition Plan’ Must Export 3,000 ‘Safely, Effectively’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – After 100 students tested positive overnight to COVID-19, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras returned to the campus for the third time in five days to announce he’s closing SUNY Oneonta for the fall semester, shifting all instruction online. “We will address the spring semester at a later time,” he added. In a 2 p.m. press conference next to the Chase Gym…
BULLETIN SUNY ONEONTA CAMPUS CLOSED FOR FALL SEMESTER THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS…
COUNTY DOH REPORTS: 107 MORE CASES TODAY, AND ALL ARE AT SUNY-O In All, 460 Test Positive Since March COOPERSTOWN – In all, 107 new coronavirus cases were reported in Otsego County today, and all were SUNY Oneonta students, according to county Public Health Director Heidi Bond. That brings the total to 460 total confirmed cases since the pandemic threat arrived in March, Bond reported, four times as many as had been reported in the county when the SUNY Oneonta…
SUNY-O’s COVID Toll Heads For 300+ ‘No More Classes’ Likely SUNY Outcome By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Within one week, SUNY Oneonta’s COVID-19 explosion appears to have toppled face-to-face on-campus learning. “We are going to reassess in two weeks,” said Kim MacLeod, college spokesperson. “But of all the possible outcomes, going fully remote has the biggest potential to be the outcome.” According to SUNY Oneonta’s figures, 245 students had tested positive as of press time Tuesday evening,…
