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UPDATED AT 2:32 P.M. TODAY

OTSEGO COUNTY

WINS PHASE ONE

REOPENING SLOT

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

County Board Chairman David Bliss

COOPERSTOWN – County board Chairman David Bliss has  announced shortly after 2 p.m. that Otsego County businesses and industry have been included in Phase One of the state's reopening from the coronavirus lockdown, effective this Friday, May 15.

"This is the light at the end of the tunnel," said Bliss.  "But we're still in the middle of the tunnel.  We have a long way to go."

Bliss spoke after just completing a regional telephone briefing with Oneida County Executive Tony Picente, on behalf of the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission (REDC), which includes Otsego County.

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