With regard to HABs, BFS advises members of the public to “Know it. Avoid it. Report it.” According to a press release, folks should keep watch along the shoreline and at the water surface, especially in sheltered areas such as boat slips and small coves.…
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On Thursday, August 7, SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station staff announced that early stage harmful algal blooms have been observed on Otsego Lake near Kingfisher Tower and at the BFS main laboratory, located at Rat Cove.…
The summer of 2022 marked the first major harmful algal bloom—or HAB—in Otsego Lake, resulting in the closure of the public beach at Glimmerglass State Park as well as the Village of Cooperstown-owned Three Mile Point and Fairy Spring parks. Though not to the scale that some New York State counties have seen, the negative effects of HABs on public health have been raising concerns.…
Following the Sunday Hall of Fame Induction in Cooperstown, Cooperstown and Middlefield residents woke to find white nationalist recruiting posters hanging on the backs of stop signs and on utility poles. Both the Village of Cooperstown and Town of Middlefield told concerned residents that signs on telephone poles needed to be reported to NYSEG; otherwise, there was not much they could do.…
Much of what has been accomplished to date has been “below the surface,” but we are now entering the public outreach phase and encourage everyone to attend the first public meeting later this summer to learn more about what is being done and, most importantly, what you can do. In the interim, and to that end, we also encourage you to attend the 2nd Annual BFS Open House at 4 p.m. on July 31, join the Otsego Lake Association, and…
Upcoming events at the Springfield Library, the Middlefield Volunteer Fire Department's next fly-in pancake breakfast and new advances in blood stem cell and bone marrow transplants are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
Information about roundabout project detours in the City of Oneonta, reports of Mpox in Onondaga County and Richfield Springs' Friendship Craft Festival are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
Awhile back my good friend and chicken guru, Jim McNulty, called to tell me that he had found the piano of his dreams: “a Winter spinet for free!” It was down in Middlefield and he wanted to know if he could have the use of my truck to bring it home. I told him about a terrible time two friends and I had had getting an old piano out of a basement because it was so heavy and the stairs…
This week's extensive news briefs section includes information about the Second Annual David S. Svahn Humanities in Medicine Memorial Lecture, a Fly-In Pancake Breakfast at the Cooperstown/Westville Airport, Cooperstown Rotary's annual Vintage Treasure Sale and much more.…
Defunding medical research is happening across the country, where doctors and medical researchers are coming up with discoveries for the treatment of cancer, dementia, heart disease, Parkinson’s, and diabetes, diseases that touch almost every American family.…
