LETTER from MONICA CALZOLARI In Crisis, Your Newspapers Are Rising To The Challenge To the Editor: I read your April 2-3 print edition cover to cover and I learned a lot of valuable information I have not seen reported anywhere else. The service you provide to our community is vital! I know that the newspaper industry has been struggling financially for over a decade. I am so impressed that you were proactive and built a following on www.AllOTSEGO.com that attracts…
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IN TIME OF CORONAVIRUS As Need Grows, Local Food Banks Welcoming Needy By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – In an average shopping trip, Laura Eggleston, Milford Food Pantry director, might buy 1,100 pounds of food to serve their 39 households. On Monday, April 13, she placed an order for 4,300 pounds. “In these last two weeks, we’ve served 56 families,” she said. “That’s 193 individuals.” As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, food banks across the county are seeing “a…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 A Pearl Harbor Moment, Plus By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Two weeks ago, Surgeon General Jerome Adams made comments that last week would be a Pearl Harbor moment in the battle against COVID-19. Others picked up on the statement. I believe the President used that phrase at one point in a press conference. Others are calling this a 9/11 moment. This is nothing of the sort and is probably an insult to…
HOMETOWN History April 17, 2020 150 Years Ago News Items – Ohio has 25 different female suffrage associations. Boston uses 7,646,020 gallons of milk annually. Nearly 700 Philadelphia girls were married to foreigners last year. Boston expects to pay $1,400,000 for its public schools the coming year. A farmer in Schuyler County lately lost a colt from bleeding at the nose. The new five-cent pieces will be ready in a few days. Ole Bull’s famous violin is said to be…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP While New York City Dithered, San Antonio Saw Threat, Responded To the Editor: In Texas, a city or county can issue and enforce stay-at-home health orders without the state’s permission. Some West Texas counties have prohibited out-of-county residents from staying in the county overnight, the landlords are fined $1,000 a day. In New York, only the state can issue such sweeping health directives, no such balkanization is allowed. This centralization of authority proved to be fatal…
GRIN & BEAR IT Sheltered From Coronavirus, Teddy Hunt Adds Bit Of Fun By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Neighbors throughout Oneonta have found a way to make quarantine bear-able for children who are stuck inside. “I taught the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ when I taught elementary school,” said Sue Ploutz. “And I saw a post on social media about putting teddy bears in the window so that when kids go on walks with their…
IN MEMORIAM: Beulah E. Tuckett, 91; Secretary To Ranking State Police Officers SCHENEVUS – Beulah E. Tuckett, 91, a Schenevus native who pursued a career as secretary to high-ranking officers in the State Police, passed away on April 9, 2020, at the Baptist Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Scotia. She had lived in Voorheesville for many years. She was born on Dec. 3, 1928 in Schenevus, the daughter of Carl and Emma (Vossler) Gesell. Beulah grew up on the family…
LETTER from M.A. WHELAN With Crisis, We See World, And Dump, With Fresh Eyes To the Editor: Given our current situation, I find even a trip to the Northern Transfer Station – aka The Dump – an exciting occasion. I have looked at it with fresh eyes. And it’s not a pretty sight. OK, I know it’s a dump, but there are dumps and then there are dumps. This one is really awful. Fetid piles of trash, papers blowing everywhere,…
MONEY MATTERS Bad Numbers, Good News By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Let us call it The Finger-Pointers’ Dilemma. The toll of the virus has been less than what we were promised. The WuFlu medical experts assured us the sky was definitely falling this time. Maybe 2 million of us would croak. These experts convinced themselves of this. They convinced our public health officials. They convinced Big Media. All of them teamed up to convince our leaders. And so,…
FROM THE FRONT LINES Crisis Tells Us: Be Prepared! By CHARLES HYMAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I want to thank Richard Sternberg for bringing up the difficult issue of triage. Fortunately, our area has not had to face this type of excruciating decision-making. But we may yet. His “elephant in the room” makes me think of yet another “elephant in the room,” and that is the one of advance directives and healthcare agents. April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day.…
