4 SMALL CEREMONIES FOR FALLEN On Memorial Day, What A Difference Year Makes On Memorial Day 2019, inset right, the usual crowd filled the lawn at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument in front of county courthouse. Today, in time of coronarivus, a Cooperstown Veterans Club rifle squad – from left, Jim Bridger, Rich Balcom and Doug Walker – fired a salute, witnessed by one family and a small contingent of fellow veterans. The ceremony was first held in Fly Creek,…
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IN APPRECIATION Andrew M. Blum, 89; Man Of Many Friends By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A mentor to young people, Andy Blum invited Cooperstown’s Jacob Russell to lunch at The Brook, the exclusive social club on East 54th Street. Henry Kissinger walked in. “I thought, ‘Wow, Henry Kissinger’,” said Jacob. The room was filled with Wall Street bigwigs, including Tom Hill, the Blackstone vice chairman. “They didn’t go up to Kissinger to kiss his ring,” said…
NYCON Announces $45K In Mini-Grants Cooperstown Senior Center Among First-Time Grantees ONEONTA – The New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) is pleased to announce the 2020 Otsego County Mini-Grant Program Awards, $45,000 today, for Otsego County nonprofits and their capacity building projects. The typical grant is $1,000. Among the new grantees is the new Cooperstown Senior Center. The grant will allow the organization to formalize its structure as a non-profit, which will allow it to seek further funding from other…
Stressed By COVID? Bassett Opens New Mental Health Hotline By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare wants everyone to know that they do not have to feel alone if they are feeling stress about the Coronavirus crisis. The hospital network has now created a hotline for anyone who needs help handling the pressures and concerns of these unusual times. “Many people, although they may have family members in the area and are staying in touch, still feel…
Fenimore, Glimmer Globe Plan ‘Virtual’ Theater Fest COOPERSTOWN – Fenimore Art Museum’s Glimmer Globe Theatre and The Farmers’ Museum’s Templeton Players in Cooperstown are planning e a full schedule of virtual performing arts in place of the regular 2020 summer season. Due to the restrictions on public gatherings necessary to protect public health, this season’s productions of “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare and “A Moon for the Misbegotten” by Eugene O’Neill have been rescheduled to 2021.…
Final Touches Underway On Doubleday Parking Lot Under the watchful eye of The Sandlot Kid, inset, crews from Ocuto Blacktop & Paving, Rome, are laying blacktop on through Friday on the reconfigured Doubleday Field Parking Lot, the largest paving job in the Village of Cooperstown (perhaps since the reconstruction of the Clark Sports Center, and perhaps much longer). The paving is one of the final steps in $5-million-plus repairs on the venerable grandstand, which marked its 81st birthday this month;…
IN MEMORIAM Andrew M. Blum, 89; Banker On Wall Street Led Hyde Hall Revival COOPERSTOWN – Andrew M. Blum, 89, died on May 18, 2020, at his home in New York City, with his loving wife of 47 years, Felicia, at his side. He is survived by three children: Marcia Compton, Olivia Brown and Drew Blum, all of Hillsborough, North Carolina, eight grandchildren, and three great -grandchildren. He also had two stepchildren: Edwin Stebbins and Richard Stebbins. He attended Hobart…
EDITORIAL As With 9/11, City Folks Will Flee Upstate When Pandemic is Over Small businesses in small towns like ours, and the small City of Oneonta, are taking a hit right now. But for businesses that make it through, there may be better days ahead. At one of the daily briefings of local community leaders by the Governor’s regional representative, it’s said, a Power Point showed how multiple infected travelers – pinpoints, charted through tracings – flew in from Europe…
Integris Executive To Head Bassett By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett’s new president and CEO has been called “a man on a mission.” Just 39, Dr. Tommy Ibrahim has accomplished a great deal in a short time. He graduated from medical school at 23 and made a rapid ascent into leadership positions, most recently serving as executive vice president and chief physician executive for Integris Health System, the largest not-for-profit and state-owned health care system in…
Life In The Time of COVID-19 Suffer The Poor Children There remains a lot about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 that we don’t know. What was “common knowledge” yesterday could be proved wrong tomorrow. The risk of morbidity and mortality in children was one of the things we thought we knew but now appears that we didn’t. SARS-CoV-2, the currently accepted scientific name for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, appears to be the precipitating cause of a newly recognized syndrome that causes…
