A Local Polio Pioneer In 1954, Ellen Feury Levine, of Cooperstown, became a pioneer. Ellen and the rest of her second grade class at Cooperstown Central School received shots in the first national tests of a trial polio vaccine. Levine had joined the decades-long, national effort to defeat a virus that ravaged thousands and worried millions of Americans for decades.…
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Oneonta Boys Varsity Cross Country finish third in Class “C” Section IV championships Last Thursday, November 4, Senior Korbin Jones and Junior Brandon Gardner led the Oneonta Boys Varsity Cross Country team to a third-place team finish among 15 Class “C” teams at the Section IV Championships and State Qualifying meet held at the Chenango Valley State Park.…
Oregon-to-NYC via canoe, with a hike to Cooperstown By TARA BARNWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Talk about huge goals and going after them … meet Neal Moore. He’s an explorer. He’s an adventurer. He’s an athlete. He’s a journalist and a teacher. He wants to get the story right. Dubbed “a modern-day Huck Finn” by CNN, Moore is on an adventure of a lifetime.…
Opinion by Erna Morgan-McReynolds Be afraid – choices The road not taken. You might have heard or read the poem which Robert Frost wrote more than a hundred years ago, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled and that has made all the difference. “ Has someone ever asked you for advice? Should they move from this company to that one? From one career to another? From one city to another? A…
News from the noteworthy Community matters As we transition through fall, I’m reminded of the spirit of community that is such a vibrant part of our lives in Otsego County. This sense of connection and shared values that sustains us through good times and challenging times is why “community matters”.…
Opinion by Richard Sternberg COVID: Good News/Bad News Six weeks ago, I wrote about a new drug called malnupiravir from Merck that was a game changer in the treatment of COVID-19. When taken in the first few days of infection it was 50% effective in the prevention of hospitalization and death. While not as good as monoclonal antibodies this was considered an amazing result and the study was terminated early in order to immediately ask for emergency approval. It was…
From Cooperstown to Iraq By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Lieutenant Colonel Sean Hill is a Cooperstown High School graduate who bore the responsibility of being in charge of young men in combat as a member of the Army for 20 years. He is now stationed in Canada but has been all over the world, going wherever his responsibilities as a member of the United States Army took him. “I had no idea what I wanted to do,” Lieutenant…
2021 Cooperstown Boys Soccer Team Editor’s note: Hot off their exciting state championship win on Sunday, we invited CCS Boys’ Varsity Soccer Coach Frank Miosek to reflect on his team’s brilliant 2021 performance. Here’s what he wrote. By COACH FRANK MIOSEK I have been the CCS boys’ soccer coach since 1988. Every summer I start to plan for the coming fall season. Before this dream job, I had another — I spent thirteen years at Cherry Valley as their first…
Editorial: The other side of Autumn Ah, the autumn colors. Beautiful to view, harbingers of cozy nights indoors, and, let’s face it, quite good for our local economy. And then they start to fall. We could debate all day long about whether it’s right to pick them up or let them be over the winter months, but let’s face it: come next spring, we’ll want our lawns to look good again for the summer to come. We also could debate…
