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County Offers Advice on Safe Bat Handling

In an effort to combat potential human and pet exposure to a possibly infected bat, the Otsego County Rabies Information and Statistics webpage directs people to an informative, three-minute, 10-second video produced by the Minnesota Department of Health about how you can safely remove a bat from your living space.…
August 29, 2024

Editorial: Batting Up

Here in New York, there are nine species of bats. Six of these live and hibernate in multi-populous colonies, in caves; three live outside, individually, upside down in trees, and migrate to warmer latitudes in the winter; all of our bats are microbats—insect-eating echolocators. In Otsego County, the little brown bat is the most common.…
August 29, 2024

2 In Cooperstown Tested For Rabies After Bat Infected

2 In Cooperstown Tested For Rabies After Bat Infected COOPERSTOWN – A bat tested positive for rabies in Cooperstown Friday, and two people were exposed and are being tested, the county Health Department reported today. A bite from a rabid animal can be fatal, and the health department is cautioning people to say away from stray or wild animals, and make sure their children do, too.…
August 31, 2020

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

Visit our “subscribe” page and select your charity of choice at checkout