HOMETOWN History March 25, 2020 150 Years Ago The Technologist – The second number of this journal has reached us and is fully up to the promises held out by the first. It contains a very fine full page engraving on tinted paper, giving the details of the East River Bridge Caisson. Other articles of great interest serve to render this number valuable, both to the practical man and to the general reader. Amongst them may be mentioned the “Manufacture…
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IT’S HERE! 1st Otsego Case Surfaced; 35 Quarantined By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com There is still only one positive case of the COVID-19 virus in Otsego County. But don’t let your guard down, because that number doesn’t tell the whole story. With confirmed cases skyrocketing above 25,000 in the state and testing supplies dwindling, there may be many here who have the virus but remain unidentified. In Otsego County alone, there are 35 people on quarantine – either…
CORONAVIRUS THREAT 2ND COUNTY CASE No Connection Established With Any Other Local Cases By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A second Otsego County resident has been found to have the COVID-19 virus, but this time the individual has no known contact with another person with the illness. The other county resident who has the virus had contact with a Herkimer County resident who had recently returned from Greece and tested positive. Otsego County Public Health Director Heidi…
50s BY THURSDAY, FRIDAY Heavy Snow Blankets County; Bit More Due Heavy, wet snow – 4-5 inches of it – blanketed Otsego County this afternoon, putting a cap on the sign outside Cooperstown Village Hall at 22 Main St. At CVS, inset photo, Ryan Strong, Milford, right, and John McCord, Richfield Springs, were pushing the heavy snow off the sidewalk. There’s a possibility of snow until 11 this evening, and more predicted on Thursday and Friday, although highs near 50…
Front-Porch Perspective Avast, Maties! Editor’s Note: Only a partial version of Front Porch Perspective was published March 12-13. Here’s the full version. By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Nope, I’m still not sitting on my front porch, laptop frozen to my lap. Maybe after I spot a first crocus, I’ll try writing out there again. Hey, I’m old and a bit ditsy – but not nuts. Meanwhile, last week some whimsical friends did find a way to distract themselves…
AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Make The Call. Avert Disaster Please, Congressman, Senator, Convince Governor To Approach Dreams Park Owner Cooperstown Dreams Park’s decision to cancel the 2020 season was only announced Friday. Two days before, county Treasurer Allen Ruffles, who chairs the county Emergency Task Force, had called Mike Walter, Dreams Park COO, and received no inkling such an economy-shattering decision was in the making. It’s not locked in concrete. It’s not too late to turn it around. Four men may be…
FULL REPORT TO FOLLOW IN THIS WEEK’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, FREEMAN’S JOURNAL Week By Week, All-Star Village Will Chart 2020 WEST ONEONTA – Marty Patton, owner of Cooperstown All-Star Village, today announced the youth-baseball park has put together a flexible plan that may allow it to function through the 2020 season. “We have decided to make a decision regarding the 2020 tournament… four weeks in advance of each week,” Patton wrote in a public letter. Players’ families and coaches will then be…
BIRTHPLACE OF LEGEND CELEBRATED Special Cancellation OK’d For Doubleday’s 100th…
A MESSAGE FROM REP. DAVID BLISS COUNTY BD. CHAIR Editor’s Note: Here is the text of a letter to the community sent out a few minutes ago by David Bliss, chairman, Otsego County Board of Representatives. SAFER AT HOME A Message from OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES “Be prepared, not scared.” Dear Friends, This is an unsettling time for our country and our community, as we are in a public health emergency due to the spread of the novel coronavirus…
1ST CASE SURFACES IN OTSEGO COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Department of Health has been notified of the first lab confirmed case of COVID-19 in a county resident. This individual is a close contact of a confirmed case (that resides in another county). The individual was on quarantine when symptoms developed, testing was performed promptly and safely. The individual remains on isolation and close contacts have been notified. The Department of Health will be not be releasing any identifiable information…
