HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, MARCH 1 Donate Your Gently Used Art DONATIONS – 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Weekdays. Check your closets for gently used artworks to donate to the CAA Spring Cleaning Bazaar. Support the local art association, clear some space at home. Drop off weekdays through March 5. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-9777 or visit www.cooperstownart.com…
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He’s Been Confined For 444 Days Max, SQSPCA Director To Swap Places For Day HARTWICK SEMINARY – Max, a long-time shelter resident, will move into SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes office this coming Wednesday, and Hayne will move into his cage for a day. The idea is to drive home to the public – and Stacie – what an extended stay means for shelter dogs, and the importance of adopting shelter dogs as quickly as possible. “March 3 marks Max’s…
IN MEMORIAM Virginia B. Miner Oct. 7, 1936-Feb. 23, 2021 SIDNEY – A good person, a well-lived life. Ginny traveled many miles since she was the only student in her grade at the one-room school in Colchester, part of the Walton School District. Later, she attended Franklin Central School and graduated at age 16 from Sidney, where the business courses and bookkeeping prepared her well for the future. Her first job was at Public & Loan in Sidney, and then…
LISTEN TO OBERACKER-ZUCKER EXCHANGE Why Is Otsego Ignored? Oberacker Asks Zucker ONEONTA – State Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, today grilled state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker on the shortage of vaccines in his district, including Otsego County, during a joint legislative public hearing on the governor’s budget proposal. “The rural region I represent was forced to shut down – even when most counties had an extremely low number of cases – if any,” said Oberacker, a member of the Senate Health…
City Hall Explores Heat-Pump System Council Members Asked To Address Single Source For ‘Multiple Buildings’ ONEONTA – Common Council will be asked to apply for $100,000 in state funds to explore a “community heat pump system” when it meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall. The money would come from NYSERDA (the state Energy Research & Development Authority) and would require no more than a $5,000 share from the city.…
Beware Of Phone Scams, Oneonta Police Advising ONEONTA – The Oneonta Police Department is warning residents of “numerous phone scams” reported locally. They include: • A caller purportedly from the Social Security Office advises you your Social Security number has been compromised. You are then asked for personal information, including bank information, and – eventually – to send money.…
Cooperstown Library Forgives Fines COOPERSTOWN – Effective immediately, the Village Library of Cooperstown announced today it will waive all overdue fines for materials checked out on or before Feb. 8, and returned through June 30. Any fines accumulated up to this point will remain on the borrower’s account. Any reduction to fines currently owed by the borrower must be approved by the Library Director.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Learn About ‘Beethoven In Love’ With Catskill Symphony Orchestra BEETHOVEN CONVERSATIONS – 7 p.m. Tune in for musical soiree ‘Beethoven in Love – Songs and the Only Opera’ featuring pre-recorded presentation on Beethoven followed by live Q&A session with Maciej Żółtowski, Music Director, and Thomas Wolf, Executive Director. Q&A limited to 10 patrons. Please RSVP. Next conversation to be held 3/27 on ‘Beethoven Conspiracy – the Illuminati’. Presented by The Catskill Symphony Orchestra. E-mail…
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SUNY Oneonta Stays Course In COVID Fight, College Says ONEONTA – In response to reports today that both Oneonta’s College’s are experience upticks in COVID-19 positive test, SUNY Oneonta issued this statement affirming steps it has been taking this semester: “The college continues to monitor COVID cases and require weekly testing for all students and employees who come to campus. We’re also working alongside the county Department of Health to conduct thorough contact tracing.…
