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Chamber Chair: Reopening Chance For Growth, Creativity By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Though Phase One of “un-PAUSE” is limited to construction, manufacturing and curbside retail, Al Rubin, chair, Otsego County Chamber of Commerce Board, wants to make sure all businesses are ready to begin the process of rebuilding the local economy. “It’s exciting,” he said. “Now is the time for innovation and creativity. Now is not the time to be shy. We need to be sharing…
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This Year, Graduation Might Be At The Drive-In By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com UNADILLA – With no movies being released this summer, Spencer Wilson, manager of his family’s Unadilla Drive-In, may still be able to bring in the crowds. “We’ve had more than a dozen schools call us and ask if we would host their graduations,” he said. “We’d love to do it. That could be our whole summer.” Though the drive-in remains closed under state mandate, Wilson…
Tapestry Coloring Contest Gives Families Activity, Art By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Coloring contests, Lindsey Millea believes, are not just for adults. “Before quarantine, we were going to have a ‘Color and Sip’ event in the store,” she said. “People could get one of our black and white tapestries and color them in. When everyone had to go into quarantine, we thought, why not offer it as a coloring contest?” The contest, offered by the Fashion…
ITEM GIVEN AWAY IN ONEONTA Crochet Club Makes 1,750 ‘Mask Mates’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Wearing a mask is that much harder if it doesn’t fit, said Emily Phillips. “I got masks for my partner and I, and mine kept falling off my face, and his was pulling on his ears,” she said. “I reached out to a crochet group on Facebook, and they had patterns for ‘mask mates’.” The crochet band is designed to…
Editorial For Good Of All, Hope Marty Patton Right It may turn out Marty Patton made the right call, delaying opening of his Cooperstown All Star Village, the youth baseball tournament camp in West Oneonta, in hopes of salvaging at least some of the 2020 season. Things are happening so quickly. With this week’s Glimmerglass Fest cancellation, pretty much all of the major summer activities have been cancelled or delayed – mostly notably, of course, Derek Jeter’s July 26 Induction…
BOUND VOLUMES: May 7, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Agricultural: Mr. John G. Harden owns a lot of 14 acres of land in Bristol, Rhode Island, on which are a dwelling house, three barns and a shop. The last summer (1819) he rented a lot of the same for $20 and cultivated the remainder, which produced as follows: 18,600 bunches of onions; 100 bushels of corn; 100 bushels of potatoes; 40 bushels of beets; 40 bushels of Fr. Turnips; 100 bushels…
Only One COVID Case Left Locally By ELIZABETH COOPERS • Special To AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Just one case. That’s where Otsego County’s COVID-19 numbers are right now. The Tuesday, May 5, data from the county Health Department showed, for the first time, no new cases for the past five days. Of the 62 total cases found in the county since March 23, 57 had recovered and four had succumbed to the virus. The one remaining patient is hospitalized. County Public…
Editorial COVID-19 War Not Over, But Let’s Take Victory Lap Let’s take a victory lap. As of Monday, May 4, the coronavirus threat in Otsego County had been reduced to one case. One case in the whole county. It’s a battle won, not the war. Testing for the coronavirus identified 62 positive infections once symptoms appeared, through the Bassett Hospital hotline (547-5555) and other means. In all likelihood, though, there is still coronavirus in our neighborhoods. Testing for antigens, which…
