Shared Garage Back On Otsego’s Agenda By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego County’s plan for a shared transportation garage has been revived. County officials met with representatives from Otsego Northern Catskills BOCES in the past month to gage interest in another push to build a centralized, shared services facility on county Route 35 in the town of Milford, on land adjacent to the ONC BOCES campus. “I would not say it is full speed ahead, but maybe it…
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LAPIN ISN’T RUNNING AGAIN 11 COUNTY BOARD RACES EMERGE IN NOV. 2 ELECTIONS New Names: Jastremski, Ross, Catan; 2 Democrats Vying To Face Brockway By JIM KEVLIN & LARISSA RYAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The 2021 battle for the Otsego County Board of Representatives has been joined, with more candidates fielded than any time in recent memory, with contests in 11 districts. In the 14 districts, 11 Republican candidates, one Conservative (allied with the Republicans) and 13 Democrats filed…
Complete, County Sends Police Review To Albany By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As expected, the county Board of Representatives this morning unanimously passed its review of policies and procedures in the county Sheriff’s Department, per Governor Cuomo’s June 11, 2020, order following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. The deadline for submitting completed plans to Albany is April 1, and the county will meet that. The vote was 12-0, with county Reps. Danny Lapin, D-Oneonta, and Dan…
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EDITORIAL Much To Be Proud Of In Response To COVID-19 Despite the chilling toll – 3,483 COVID-19 cases and 54 deaths – Otsego County people, our neighbors, friends and family, have a lot to be proud of as we ended The Year of The Pandemic on Monday, March 15, we found in revisiting the last 52 editions of this newspaper. Throughout, there was worry, dismay and grief in the face of the implacable and mysterious foe, but little panic. In…
Bassett Hits Home Run Goal Is 120,000 Shots In One Hundred Days State Approves ‘Massive Vaccination Site’ In SUNY Oneonta, To Begin On Thursday By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In a “vaccine desert,” suddenly there’s an oasis. After weeks of lobbying and some heightened expectation, it’s here: Bassett Healthcare Network announced Tuesday afternoon, March 16, that a COVID-19 “massive vaccination site” would be opening two days later, the 18th, in SUNY Oneonta’s Dewar Field House. The clinic, staffed…
Baseball Camps Wait For Albany Guidance Quarantine Rules Also Turn Off Some Families By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Health and wealth. Those are the two concepts people in government and the tourist industry are using in discussing the news that the two youth-baseball camps, Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary and All Star Village in West Oneonta, are seeking permission to open someway, somehow, in the 2021 season. “If they can conform to the state’s requirements and…
EDITORIAL Vaccines Are Here. Keep Trying. You’ll Get Your Shots Elsewhere on this page, Dr. Charles Hyman, Bassett Hospital’s infectious disease specialist, says, “It’s time for hope.” Yes, indeed, all the signs are good. Earlier this week, Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director, said, “I think it will open up pretty quickly with Johnson & Johnson,” a reference to the new one-shot vaccine approved over the weekend. It’s even encouraging to read the daily reports in the doom-and-gloom national…
Capitol Attack, Riot Resolutions Passed Routinely – Then, Oops! By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – After last month’s hour-long fiery debate at the county board meeting over resolutions expressing contrary views on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, both resolutions went through routinely at today’s meeting as part of the consent agenda. Well, almost. County Rep. Rick Brockway, on Zoom from his West Laurens home, answered a question his wife was relaying to him from…