LeCates: ‘Important Moment By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As COVID numbers continue to rise throughout the county, Dr. William LeCates, Bassett Hospital president, says that the hospital is prepared for the demand. “We have the ability to expand recovery areas,” he said in an interview. “Hospitals have to have these plans in place. We’re seeing an increasing number of community members become ill, and it’s not unexpected that some portion of them will need hospitalizations.” Some are admitted…
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ONEONTA CLOSED UNTIL 10/15 CCS Students Returning On Monday, In Rotation By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Utilizing the hybrid model combining in-person and remote learning, students will return to Cooperstown Central School classrooms on Monday, Oct. 5. “Cohort A” will attend classes on Monday and Thursday, and “Cohort B” will attend on Tuesdays and Friday. Students can also opt to continue remote learning.…
MALLORY DELANEY MET CHALLENGE Helping People Captured ‘Distinction’ For Honoree By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For certified Physician’s Assistant Mallory Delaney, medicine isn’t about talking to a patient. It’s about listening. “You want to get people to feel like they’re in the driver’s seat,” she said. “No matter what road they’re going to go down.” For example, she said, it was easier to get patients to wear masks if they knew it would keep a parent or…
JESS LANZA CO-OWNS KATE’S UPSTATE New Chamber President Has Main Street’s Pulse By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – During down times at Kate’s Upstate, Jess Lanza, new president of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce board of directors, sits on one of the turquoise chairs out front, chatting with tourists, customers and other businesspeople who happen to walk by. “We’re right in the center,” said Lanza, the first merchant to lead the Cooperstown chamber board since 2007, when…
IN MEMORIAM Jane G. Duel, 82 Dec. 16, 1938 – July 14, 2020 COOPERSTOWN – Everyone said that it was impossible to get a parking place and admission to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Jane Goodwin Duel didn’t buy it. She and a close friend left Warren, Vt., before dawn in her light blue VW convertible bug with the Rolls Royce hood, car festooned with international flags and packed with helium balloons. Arriving at the Olympic checkpoints, their…
Police, Racism Decried At 3rd Rally In Region Estimated 800 Fill Courthouse Lawn By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Ten years after he was chased by an armed classmate from Cooperstown Park on a sunny Good Friday and shot, Wesley Lippitt recounted the events this afternoon on the lawn of the Otsego County Courthouse: “Racism is here,” he testified to an almost completely white crowd that organizers estimated at about 800 people, gathered to rally for justice…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 4-5, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE After 500 Protest, 2nd One Planned Phase 2 Opens Main Street Shops Buyers Fleeing NY, But Homes For Sale Scarce Bassett a Big Parking Lot As Patients Return AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Expanded Cooperstown Distillery Aims for Legacy Horned Dorset Delivering Locally Virtual Theater, Celebrate Pride, Camping! EDITORIALS In Nation Under Duress, A Verb To Live By COLUMNS LOEWENGUTH: Life In France Under Lockdown…
COUNTY’S SAGA BROADCAST WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’ Follows COVID-19 In County COOPERSTOWN – For two months now, the waxing and waning of COVID-19 in Otsego County has been chronicled by Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com and its sister newspaper, on WAMC’s “Morning Headlines,” hosted by David Guistina. Here are the reports Kevlin has been delivering at 7:05 a.m. each Thursday, which are broadcast to 250,000 listeners from here through the Capital Region into the Berkshires. Click the link, then click on…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 14-15, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE (new) NORMAL IN OTSEGO COUNTY Otsego County Moves To Phase 1 Opening Bassett Is Full-Service Hospital Again During Emergency, Southside Mall Lives! Auto Dealers Bullish As Doors Open No Arrest, And Richfield Still In Dark AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Alumni Puzzlin’ The PAUSE Away In Pandemic, ‘Tender, Funny’ Art EDITORIALS Medical Challenge Met; Now, Economic One It Took A Village, And Friend Is Helped COLUMNS…
Debate Keeps Turning Back To Main Street 2 Democrats, GOP Challenger Joust As 3/18 Elections Near By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It was the bluntest opinion of this evening, on what to do about the former CVS at 100 Main St., the downtown centerpiece now vacant for three years. “They never should have allowed CVS to leave Main Street,” declared village trustee candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns in response to a question from Jay Bosley, a…