Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk answers questions after this evening’s briefing on the Village of Cooperstown’s proposed zoning law revisions. About two dozen people attended a hearing in the fire hall. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
Are dormitories permitted in the Village of Cooperstown under the proposed zoning revisions? asks attorney Linden Summers, a Bassett neighbor. Yes, was the reply.
COOPERSTOWN – “I haven’t heard anything about a dorm?” said attorney Linden Summers, who lives at 1 Elk St., a half-block from Bassett Hospital, as this evening’s hour-long presentation and discussion on the village’s proposed revised zoning code neared an end.
He recalled that five years ago, the Village Board’s effort to adopt a “hospital zone” to give Bassett flexibility collapsed over whether the hospital was planning dorms in the one-family neighborhood surrounding it.
Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, who led this evening’s presentation, acknowledged there is a provision in the revised code for dormitories
COOPERSTOWN – Hudson may just be a dog, but as part of Bassett Hospital’s first K-9 team, he has a lot of responsibilities.
The hospital announced the new security team today.
“The presence of a K-9 team is shown to be extremely effective in promoting safety,” said Harold Southworth, director of Public Safety and Transportation, who along with Andrew Zuk, manager of Security Operations, led the development of the K-9 program.
“Hudson is extremely intelligent and adaptable to the moment. His presence can immediately calm a highly charged situation, and he is an approachable, comforting distraction when called upon, such as for children in the emergency department.”
Dr. Sharma and her preceptor, Dr. James Dalton, Bassett’s Medical Education director.
COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Konika Sharma, a Bassett Hospital internal medicine resident in her third year of training, earned the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Research Day Outstanding Research Presentation award for a finding that could improve detection of damage to retinas caused by diabetes.
Sharma addressed the question: “Is a hand-held non-mydriatic (no dilation required) fundus camera superior to the referred dilated eye exams for the screening and detection of diabetic retinopathy in the primary care setting?” Her answer was: yes.
MIDDLEFIELD – Mabel (Dubben) Graham, 88, who worked at Bassestt Hospital with Nobel Prize winner E. Donnell Thomas, M.D., died peacefully of natural causes early in the morning of April 2, 2019, in Bellevue, Wash.
She began her life Dec. 3, 1930, in Cooperstown. She was the second child of Dorothy and George Dubben, Middlefield dairy farmers.
Mabel started her schooling in Middlefield, graduated from Cherry Valley Central and finished with a degree from Broome Tech Community College in Binghamton.
EAST SPRINGFIELD – Elaine More, who farmed with her husband in Pierstown and East Springfield, passed away early Saturday morning, April 13, 2019, at Cooperstown Center following a short illness. She was 87.
Elaine was born Nov. 15, 1931, in Cooperstown, a daughter of J. Emory and Wilma (Curry) Bloomer. Raised in Hyde Park, Town of Hartwick, Elaine attended Cooperstown Central School, graduating with the Class of 1949.
PHILADELPHIA – Bassett Hospital’s Douglas M. DeLong, M.D., was elevated to chairman of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians during Internal Medicine Meeting 2019, ACP’s annual scientific meeting held here Thursday through Saturday.
The Board of Regents is the main policy-making body of the ACP, which is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States, and had members in more than 145 countries worldwide. The ACP is considered second only to the AMA (American Medical Association) in bringing physicians’ perspective to bear in national policy.
A resident of Cherry Valley, Dr. DeLong is the chief of Bassett Hospital’s Division of General Internal Medicine, and an associate clinical professor of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta
Otego Now President Jody Zakrevsky addresses a “Town Hall” meeting in Cooperstown’s Village Hall Ballroom Monday, April 8. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
COOPERSTOWN – When Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky arrived a year ago, he was told not to bring natural gas to Cooperstown, he said to a Cooperstown audience Monday, April 9, in one of several “Town Hall” meetings he’s convening around the county.
Asked afterward who told him, he said the leadership of Otsego 2000, board President Nicole Dillingham and Executive Director Ellen Pope. “They advised me there would be strong opposition,” said Zakrevsky. “At the time, I took their advice.”
Dillingham disagreed, “We had a cordial meeting to discuss our work, and his work. We never told him what he could do. That’s absurd.”
Otsego Now is the county’s Industrial Development Agency; Otsego 2000 is the Cooperstown-based environmental group.
There are two options to serving Cooperstown with natural gas, Zakrevsky said in an interview the morning after the “Town Hall” – running a line from Oneonta’s NYSEG system; or the preferred option, running a line down Route 28 from Richfield Springs’ Tennessee line, which has a greater gas supply.
RICHFIELD SPRINGS – James J. Stearns, 69, of Hugick Road, a retired dairy farmer whose interests ranged widely to include Percherons, raising unusual chickens, growing roses and day lilies, and playing the organ, passed away on Thursday morning March 21, 2019, at Bassett Hospital.
RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Barbara Atwell Roberts, 87, formerly of Richfield Springs and a retired operating room nurse at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, died Feb. 21, 2019, of heart failure at Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H.
She lived at Havenwood Heritage Heights in Concord for the past nine years.
Raised in the Baptist church, Barb’s unshakable faith guided and strengthened her throughout her life, in happy times and sad times. She lost her son at age 10 and survived domestic abuse. “Let your life speak,” say the Quakers, and Barb did so, with her gentle and forgiving nature, optimism, generosity, and most of all, loving kindness. She walked “cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.”
Yes, today’s Valentine’s Day. And, yes, you get an idea of the number of husbands who left buying that bouquet for their beloved until the last minute from the number of bouquets in Bassett Hospital’s front lobby this morning, waiting to be picked up by spouses elsewhere in the building. (AllOTSEGO.com photo)
GLOVERSVILLE – Sally P. Sanford, 78, an Oneonta native who worked for many years at Bassett Hospital, passed away peacefully with her daughters at her side Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, at the Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville.
She was born in Oneonta on March 12, 1940, and lived in Cooperstown, Sun City, Ariz.,, and most recently in Northville in the Adirondacks.
COOPERSTOWN – Mary Imogene Carter, R.N., named after Mary Imogene Bassett and retired nursing supervisor at that namesake hospital, passed away Thursday afternoon, Jan. 31, 2019, at Bassett with her family by her side. She was 93.
Born June 8, 1925, at Bassett Hospital, Imy was one of seven children of Charles A. Newell, Sr. and Mary Gavin Newell. Imy’s mother was raised by Dr. Mary Imogene Bassett, and it was in her honor that Imy was named. After graduating from Cooperstown Central School with the Class of 1941, Imy attended Hartwick College School of Nursing. Upon graduation she went to work at Bassett as a nurse.
COOPERSTOWN – As it has in Oneonta and Herkimer, Bassett Hospital plans ot open a Cooperstown Convenient Care unit Thursday, Jan. 3, on the first floor of the Clinic Building at Atwell Road and River Street.
“The community asked for a convenient care location closer to home, so this is an expansion of what we already have in place,” says Dr. Mark Winther, chief of Emergency & Trauma Services.
“Care at the Cooperstown location will be available after-hours during the week and on weekends when primary care practitioners are not available,” he said.
Samantha Jankowski, left, a nurse at the Bassett Clinic in Andes, donated her kidney to Vicki Tuttle, right, after seeing a message on Facebook looking for a donor with O+ or O- blood. Tuttle had been looking for a donor for three years, even going so far as to take out a billboard before Jankowski contacted her. The transplant was successfully performed at Albany Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 10, and, according to a release from Bassett Hospital, both women are doing well. (Bassett Hospital photo)
State Police Lt. Michael Garrett was presented with the Community Hero Award from Bassett Hospital Friday, Dec. 7, for saving a heart-attack victim Nov. 2 in Richfield Springs. With him are members of the Emergency Services Team, from left, Jonathan Flyte, vice president/Facilities Planning; Jessica Schatzel, executive assistant; Jeanne Payne, network director of Emergency Services; Matthew Kleinmaier, MD; Robert Gollhofer, network VP of Operational Excellence; Garrett; Brinton Mueller, network program director of Emergency Preparedness; Patricia Conklin, assistant nurse manager; Harold Southworth, network director of Public Safety; AJ Zuk, manager of Security Operations; Samantha Belden, nurse manager, and Krista Cotton, administrative support specialist.
COOPERSTOWN – On Nov. 2, State Police Lt. Michael Garrett responded to a call for help at the Richfield Springs post office, where a 70-year-old woman had collapsed and was in cardiac arrest.
“When the call came in and I heard the age of the victim, it was about the same age as my mother, and I hoped to be able to help in some way,” said Garrett. “I arrived on the scene with another trooper and my training kicked in.
