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Bliss To Gyms: Get Inspected So You Can Reopen

Bliss To Gyms: Get Inspected So You Can Reopen County To Help Businesses Meet Cuomo’s Requirements COOPERSTOWN – Reach out and be inspected, so you can reopen, county Board Chair David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield today advised operators of gyms and fitness centers. “Normally we don’t issue permits to these establishments, so the Health Department may not be aware of every facility looking to reopen,” said Bliss.  “We need them to contact us so we can work with them and…

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Ring, Ring. Who Is It? Probably Dave Bliss

COUNTY TRIES OUT Hyper-Reach® Ring, Ring. Who Is It? Probably Dave Bliss He Wants YOU To Fight the Coronavirus COOPERSTOWN – If your phone rang in the last few minutes, it may have been Dave Bliss with this message: “This is David Bliss, Otsego County Board chair, with a reminder that we all must take personal responsibility to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Governor has ordered only essential businesses can be open. No social gatherings for any reason.…

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For Now, We Can Help Downstate, Bliss Is Advised

CLICK TO READ TEXT OF STATEMENT For Now, We Can Help Downstate, Bliss Is Advised If Otsego County Endangered, Chairman Says He’ll Be Told By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – While “deeply troubled” by Governor Cuomo’s announcement that Upstate ventilators will be seized for downstate patients, county board Chairman David Bliss today said he’s been assured local health-care believe they can participate without jeopardizing local care. “We have been assured that if those circumstances begin to change,…

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Bliss Encourages Visitors To Alert DOH, ‘Self-Isolate’

CLICK FOR ‘SAFER AT HOME’ STATEMENT Bliss Encourages Visitors To Alert DOH, ‘Self-Isolate’ He Says: No Reason To Believe It’s Safer Here Than Elsewhere COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County’s Coronavirus Task Force is encouraging people travelling here from greater New York City and other areas hard-hit by COVID-10 to notify the county Department of Health and to self-isolate for 14 days. “You and your families have a critical role to fulfill in halting the rapid spread of the coronavirus, which can…

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BLISS DECLARES EMERGENCY IN OTSEGO COUNTY

BLISS DECLARES EMERGENCY IN OTSEGO COUNTY Order Brings Local Agencies Into Line With NY Measures COOPERSTOWN – At 10:54 a.m. today, county Board Chairman David Bliss issued a State of Emergency for Otsego County, effective immediately, and remaining in effect for the next 30 days. Also issued was an order in support of the state and county Health Departments’  recommendation on Friday to close schools, which local school superintendents have already announced. Public Health Director Heidi Bond and her staff…

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Re-elected Chair, Bliss Focus: Administrator

Re-elected Chair, Bliss Focus: Administrator By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego will now have a county administrator. Now, the question is how to fit the new job into the current system, and how to adjust the system for the new job. “We have a few things to iron out,” said county Rep. David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Middlefield/Cherry Valley, in an interview as he enters his third one-year term as Otsego County board chairman. For instance, who’s in charge…

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Kennedy, Bliss, Committee Deserve Praise

EDITORIAL Kennedy, Bliss, Committee Deserve Praise Who gets the praise for professionalizing Otsego County government? Foremost, probably county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick. The idea caught fire with her, evident in her close questioning of SUNY New Paltz Vice President Gerry Benjamin, keynoter at “County Manager v. County Executive,” a forum on the idea Dec. 14, 2017, at Springbrook’s new community center. In the months that followed, she became the first local county representative ever recruited to New York State Association…

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Carl F. Bliss, 98, County Native; Aviation Pioneer, Entrepreneur

Carl F. Bliss, 98, County Native; Aviation Pioneer, Entrepreneur COOPERSTOWN – Carl Frank Bliss, 98, a WWII veteran who flew for his country, for love and for sport, passed away peacefully in his home in Encinada, Calif., with loved ones by his side, on Dec. 10, 2018. Born on the family farm outside Cooperstown on Nov. 3, 1920, (or as his favorite hat said, “Born in the USA a long, long time ago”), to Claude and Anastasia (Cramer) Bliss, Carl was…

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Carl F. Bliss, 98, County Native; Aviation Pioneer, Entrepreneur

IN MEMORIAM Carl F. Bliss, 98, County Native; Aviation Pioneer, Entrepreneur COOPERSTOWN – Carl Frank Bliss passed away peacefully in his home in Encinada, Calif., with loved ones by his side, on Dec. 10, 2018. He left the world a better place than he found it 98 years earlier, dedicating his long life to service to his family, community and country. Carl will be remembered for his deep love for the people in his life, his practicality, his entrepreneurial spirit, his mechanical…

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Bliss Reelected Chair; Clark, Frazier Vote Nay

With 2 Nays, Bliss Keeps Chairmanship Clark Again Demurs; Frazier Joins Her By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – His predecessor, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, again voted nay, but county Rep. David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, was reelected nonetheless for a second year as chairman of the county Board of Representatives. Clark was joined by her vice chair when she led the board, Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, making the vote 12-2 for Bliss.  Bliss’s vice chairman, Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, was…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.