EDITORIAL With Facts As Guide, Let’s Start Reopening As the headline has it, that’s what Governor Cuomo is doing. And he’s convincing. When on April 16, Cuomo announced he was extending NY PAUSE from April 29 to May 15, most of us probably thought that it would then be extended to the end of May, then mid-June, and so on. Upstaters, given the daily reports of New York City’s spiraling death code, were in that frame of mind. So it…
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LIBBY’S BEST BETS Tour The Rock Hall, A Virtual Talent Show And Learn Photography See Michael Jackson’s sequined glove, Slash’s top hat, some great guitars and other rock & roll memorabilia with a virtual tour of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. www.rockhall/your-tour • Tune in for a talent show of Shakespearean monologues, short fiction, opera and original songs, presented by the Fenimore Art Museum. Thursday evening, April 30. And on Saturday, May 2, check out a virtual play…
Garden Club’s Daffodils Brighten City of Oneonta By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Even though April has been heavy on the showers – and snow! – there is still sunshine to be seen on lawns across Oneonta. “Daffodils are so cheerful,” said Anita Levine. “They really do give a sense of sunshine on a cloudy day.” Levine, along with her neighbor, Rachel Hamblin, were two of the nearly 180 Oneontans who received a free bag of 25…
Masks – Necessity…? Or Fashion Statement? By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you must wear a mask, it might as well express your personality, as is happening in Oneonta, Cooperstown and places in between. “I have made masks from fabric with emojis, Care Bears, My Little Pony and patriotic prints, and I just ordered some baseball fabric,” said Sarah Vandomelen, a supervisor at the Cooperstown Price Chopper. She started by making a few masks for her co-workers at…
From Edmeston Comes NYC Angel Of Mercy By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EDMESTON – The family, David Delker said, was desperate. “They were calling from Florida, but their mom was in The Bronx,” he said. “She wasn’t a COVID-19 death, but the funeral homes in the city had a month and half backlog, and they were just calling further and further upstate. “They were panicking, they had seen the horror stories and were thinking the worst. But as…
Seward: Prayers Helped Through COVID-19 Scare By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – The coronavirus came on bit by bit. “In late March, I got a cough, a hacking cough,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, now recuperating at home from a narrow escape from COVID-19. “I didn’t think a lot about it.” Then, “I started feeling quite fatigued and lethargic.” Also suffering from a second cancer bout – the first was in 2016 – he went to…
With Elective Surgery, Bassett Normalizing By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As COVID-19 cases slow and the virus appears more contained, Bassett Hospital is beginning to start the process of returning to a new version of normalcy. “We realized that things that could be put off for a few weeks can no longer be deferred,” said Dr. William LeCates, hospital president. “What was elective for a week or two is often not for two to three months.”…
Week 1, Donors Give Foundation $127K COOPERSTOWN – In less than a week, the fledgling Community Foundation of Otsego County raised $127,000 towards its “COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund for Otsego County.” The original $30,000 challenge grant, announced Tuesday, April 21, was matched in 72 hours. A second $20,000 challenge, announced Friday the 24th, was met over the weekend. “The community is really coming on like gangbusters to support their neighbors and fellow community members,” said Harry Levine, CFOC board…
NO DEREK JETER INDUCTION UNTIL 2021 By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As many as 90,000 fans were anticipated in Cooperstown for this year’s July 26 Induction of Yankees’ superstar Derek Jeter. But instead of a potential record-breaking crowd, USA Today revealed this week, the Clark Sports Center field may be empty. “With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country – with 292,000 cases in New York – there is little choice but to…
IN TIME OF COVID-19: Latest Cancellations: Springfield 4th of July, OHS Alumni Weekend SPRINGFIELD – Springfield’s annual Fourth of July Parade, the second oldest continually running parades in the United States, has been cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns, according to the Springfield 4th of July Committee. The Oneonta Alumni Association has also cancelled its annual reunion, scheduled for October.…
