Supermarkets Assure: There’s Plenty Of Food Buy Only What You Need, Shoppers Advised By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com First it was toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Then chicken. Then pasta. Our usually full supermarkets now feature empty shelves where products we rely on used to be. Tops, Price Chopper and Hannaford are all struggling to keep up with unprecedented demand as consumers stock up in the face of the COVID-19 virus crisis, but that doesn’t mean the food…
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GOVERNOR’S DAILY UPDATE Hospitalization Rate Slower Than Expected Dear New Yorker: While the number of positive Coronavirus cases in New York continues to climb, I want to share some hopeful news: New data show that our density reduction measures may be working. The forecasted rate of hospitalizations are slowing down. On Sunday, forecasts showed hospitalizations doubling every 2 days; on Monday, they showed hospitalizations doubling every 3.4 days; and yesterday, they showed hospitalizations doubling every 4.7 days.…
BURLINGTON MOM, DAUGHTER SHINE Methodists’ Sewing Club Making Scarce Face Masks By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BURLINGTON FLATS – The sewing that Michealle Cole, a Cooperstown Central second-grade teacher, uses as her “therapy” will help protect healthcare workers from COVID-19. “All I want to do is put a smile on people’s face,” she said. “Sewing is my therapy.” Cole, part of the Fly Creek United Methodist quilting group, has made more than 75 face masks to be donated to…
You’ll Have It TO GO! From Emergency, Novelty: Folks Around County Pick Up Dinners By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At Brooks House of BBQ, the staff can’t answer the phones fast enough. “We’re going to add additional phone lines,” said owner Ryan Brooks. “They’re just ringing constantly. With Governor Cuomo’s order that all “non-essential” businesses be shuttered, restaurants can no longer accommodate dine-in customers. “When the quarantines started happening last week, I walked into work and there…
COOPERSTOWN’S JOYCE; ONEONTA’S BETTIOL County Ex-Pats Report From COVID Hot Spots By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The city that never sleeps has become a “ghost town.” Ask Carleigh Bettiol. “As of 8 p.m. Sunday evening, the city was on lockdown,” she said. “People are not allowed out unless for essential trips such as grocery, pharmacy, or medical visits.” Bettiol, daughter of Patricia Bettiol and the late Gene Bettiol Jr. turned Broadway star, is holed up in…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 26-27, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Coronavirus Halts Dreams Park 2020 Jobless Claims Soar; Sales-Tax Slump Expected It’s Here: First Otsego Case Surfaces (Since Presstime, Second Case Surfaces) County Ex-Pats Report From Hotspots TEXT OF ANNOUNCEMENTS SHATTERED DREAMS … One Park Shuts ALL-STAR HOPES .. Another Stays Open AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Dinner? You’ll Have It TO GO Methodist Sewing Club Making Face Masks EDITORIALS Job 1, Beat Coronavirus. Joe 2,…
CORONAVIRUS HALTS DREAMS PARK 2020 Merchants, Restaurants, Rental Firms Brace For The Summer That May Not Be By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Let’s start with some good news. As soon as the coronavirus threat is safely dispatched, Destination Marketing Corporation of Otsego County plans to launch a new promotion: “On Deck: Your Cooperstown Bucket List Getaway,” aimed at attracting fans from around the region whose lifelong dream is to visit Baseball’s Mecca. “Not now,” DMCOC Executive…
LOCAL FALLOUT FROM EMERGENCY Jobless Claims Soaring; Sales-Tax Dip Expected By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In an average week, Alan Sessions, CDO Workforce disability resource coordinator, might field 25 calls about unemployment insurance. “In the last week, we’ve received 25 calls a day,” he said. “Sometimes the wait to talk with someone is an hour.” The majority of the calls, he said, are waitstaff, kitchen help and retail workers suddenly jobless as Governor Cuomo ordered stores and…
THEY’RE DOING GOD’S WORK, HE SAYS 40,000 Health-Care Professionals Step Up, Governor Announces Governor Cuomo today announced that to date 40,000 healthcare workers, including retirees and students, have signed up to volunteer to work as part of the state’s surge healthcare force during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with more expected to sign up in the coming weeks. Additionally, more than 6,000 mental health professionals have signed up to provide free online mental health services. New Yorkers can call the state’s…
BOUND VOLUMES March 26, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Married on the Ninth Inst. at Washington City by the Rev. Mr. Hawley, Samuel Lawrence Governeur, Esq. of New York to Miss Maria Hester Monroe, youngest daughter of the President of the United States. Editor: To Patrons – This number completes half a year since the resumption of our editorial duties; and we should be unmindful of our obligations to the public, were we to refrain from expressing our thanks for the…
