With Tests, Mandatory Masks, SUNY Takes Aim At C-19 Professors Deny They Were Pressured To Return To Classroom By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com They’re back! Monday, Feb. 1, SUNY Oneonta students began in-person, mask-to-mask learning following the start of the virtual spring semester one week prior. Last fall, the campus made national news for its more than 700-student outbreak that happened almost immediately after undergraduates returned in August.’ With comprehensive testing, mandatory masks and a new campus president,…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Annual Ice Harvest Goes Online ICE HARVEST – 7 p.m. Hanford Ice Harvest goes online. Presenting ‘Winter’s Coolest Crop: Ice Harvesting History and Culture’ with staff Liz Callahan, Andrew Robichaud, assistant professor of History whose in-progress book is a history of the ice trade in North America. They will also discuss the annual festival celebrates this community tradition. Free, registration required. Presented by Hanford Mills Museum, East Meredith. 607-278-5744 or visit www.hanfordmills.org…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Tour American Folk Art Highlights VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m. Zoom meeting featuring walk through of exhibit ‘Highlights of American Folk Art’ with manager of arts education Kevin Gray. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Food For Groundhog Day FOOD WEBINAR – 2 – 3 p.m. Learn about food, recipes, and nutrition info you can use everyday. This week celebrate Groundhog Day. Free, registration for Zoom conference required. Presented by The Cornell Cooperative Extension. 518-234-4303 x120 or visit cceschoharie-otsego.org/events/2021/01/05/tuesdays-2…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 Oberacker, Local Leaders To Discuss Plans For 2021 FORUM – Noon. Mohawk Valley legislative leaders meet online to discuss local issues and plans for 2021. Participants will include Senator Peter Oberacker, Assemblyman Brian Miller, Senator Joseph Griffo, Rome Mayor Jacqueline Izzo, more. Presented by The Chamber Alliance of the Mohawk Valley. RSVP to marcie@oneidacountytourism.com or visit www.facebook.com/chamberalliancemv/ for info.…
Survey Seeks Your Opinions Of Local Police The Otsego County commissioner directed by Governor Cuomo to assess local policing is seeking your opinion, according to county board Chairman David Bliss. Attitudes toward state police, sheriff’s deputies, and Oneonta and Cooperstown police will be sought. A Survey Monkey questionnaire will be activated through Feb.1 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/otsego2021…
EDITORIAL We’ll Miss Roars For That Great American The passing of the great Hank Aaron last Friday, Jan. 22, at age 86, emphasized the death threats the future Hall of Famer received as he neared breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record on April 8, 1974. Death threats? Contemptible. But there’s a better perspective on Aaron’s 715th home run that broke Babe’s mark at a Braves’ home game in Atlanta. “A black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep…
Winter Carnival Will Go On, With COVID-19 Precautions By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This year, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival’s theme is “Around the World, but Safe at Home.” Scheduled Feb. 16-21, a couple of weeks later than usual, the carnival’s “Around the World” theme was intentionally broad to allow for more participation, according to Committee Chair Molly Myers. And, because of COVID-19, it sought to reflect the need to stay safe. In past years, all events were held…
BOUND VOLUMES January 28, 2021 200 YEARS AGO “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.” The exemplification of this moral is perpetually occurring on the most common objects of daily attention. The very paper on which I am now writing, affords me an example. A little while ago it was clipped off from an old garment, a useless rag. Betty would have swept it to the door. But the industrious rag man took it up and gave…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 28, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Thank Heaven For Derek Jeter Pandemic Takes Down Fly Creek Cider Mill Working The System, Getting The Shot Winter Carnival Will Go On, With COVID-19 Precautions Survey Seeks Your Opinions Of Local Police AllOTSEGO.life GOHS’ Borzozowski Took Deep Dive Into Adopted City’s Past In Thriller, Frankenstein Born At Hyde Hall EDITORIAL We’ll Miss Roars For That Great American WHAT IF? Hosting MLB…
