Last week, Thanksgiving 2023, the Telescope Array Collaboration announced the detection of a UHECR named Amaterasu (https://scienmag.com/telescope-array-detects-second-highest-energy-cosmic-ray-ever/)…
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Uvalde prayer vigil is Thursday Christ Church in Cooperstown offers a prayer vigil on Thursday, June 2, at 6:00 p.m. for the victims of the Uvalde massacre. Event organizers write: “Less than two weeks after the Buffalo massacre there is another senseless mass murder. People of all and no faiths will gather together to honor the memory of those taken from us and in prayer for all those left behind which really is all of us.” For more information please…
Prayer Vigil For Victims Of Buffalo Shooting The community is invited to an interfaith Prayer Vigil to be hosted at 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 18, by the Elm Park United Methodist Church in Oneonta. The focus of the gathering is to comfort the broken hearted and to pray for the people of Buffalo as they struggle with this tragedy, Rev. Dr. Cynthia Walton-Leavitt said in a press release to announce the vigil. ‘So many of us were saddened as our…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 Candlelight Vigil CHRISTMAS – Be an Angel. Sign up to give the gift of Christmas to local families in need with this years Angel Tree Program. Visit www.allotsego.com/angel-tree-program/ for details. VIGIL – 7 p.m. Bassett will hold a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the patients who have died of COVID-19. Family is invited to attend in person. All others are invited to attend by Zoom. Presented by Bassett Medical Center. 607-547-3626 or visit www.bassett.org/2021-memorial…
Tick season brings vigilance against Lyme By PATRICK DEWEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com What is most astounding about Lyme Disease is that one tick the size of a sesame seed or smaller, according to the CDC, can change someone’s life course. Cherry Valley resident Tina Leentjes, diagnosed with Lyme Disease in May 2017, went from working five days a week and attending events almost every evening to working part-time and falling asleep before dinner is finished. For Brenda Michaels of…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Stay Vigilant! But There’s Actually Some Good News This marks the 50th column I’ve written in this series. It’s hard to believe on many levels: How long we have been restricted or locked down, that I am still doing this weekly when we figured we would need to do this for at best a few months, that there remain new things to write about (in fact, every week brings new information), that my publisher makes me…
‘Patriot Rally’ Calls For Vigilance, Local Reflection At what its organizers called “The Patriots Rally” this afternoon in Oneonta’s Muller Plaza to combat “white supremacists and racism,” co-organizer Diandra Sangetti-Daniels, above, calls for the continued defense against racism in all forms. Sixty-five people stopped to listen to several speakers, including co-organizer Johnny Brown, inset photo, as well as Anthony Baron, Zach King and Anthony Eardley, who recited Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “America’s Chief Moral Dilemma.” Sangetti-Daniels is also organizing…
Bassett CEO Says Scourge Declines, But Stay Vigilant By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rates of positive COVID-19 cases in the Bassett Healthcare Network’s eight-county region, including Otsego, are starting to come down. In the past week, 6-8 percent of tests taken across the Bassett Network’s region were positive. That’s down from 10 percent the week before. In an interview Tuesday, April 21, Bassett Network CEO Bill Streck said there are several possible reasons, one being that the…
Vigilance Encouraged At MLK Celebration The sanctuary at First United Methodist Church in Oneonta was filled with inspiring words, social commentary and song this afternoon as crowds gathered to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 91st birthday. The event, hosted by the Oneonta NAACP, featured over a dozen speakers and performers including Yolanda Bush, seen above with Rich Mollen, as she sings “Rise Above,” written by Robin Seletsky and dedicated to the Oneonta NAACP. Mayor Gary Herzig, inset right, was…
Vigil Planned Tonight After SUNY Student Dies ONEONTA – A vigil for SUNY Oneonta student Nicholas J. Stagnitta will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in the President’s Garden on the SUNY campus. Stagnitta, 20, of Patchogue, was a biology major at the school. He died by suicide at his residence on Chestnut Street on Saturday, Aug. 25…