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Future For Oneonta Foundation Offers ‘Mini-Grants’ To Non-Profits

Future For Oneonta Foundation Offers Mini-Grants To Non-Profits ONEONTA – Citing the “unprecedented” COVID-19 crisis, the Future for Oneonta Foundation has opened applications for mini-grants to non-profits who have been impacted by the shutdowns. “It is our hope to help the Oneonta community through this most difficult time,” the foundation said in a press release sent this evening.…
April 22, 2020

Bassett CEO Says Scourge Declines, But Stay Vigilant

Bassett CEO Says Scourge Declines, But Stay Vigilant By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rates of positive COVID-19 cases in the Bassett Healthcare Network’s eight-county region, including Otsego, are starting to come down. In the past week, 6-8 percent of tests taken across the Bassett Network’s region were positive. That’s down from 10 percent the week before. In an interview Tuesday, April 21, Bassett Network CEO Bill Streck said there are several possible reasons, one being that the…
April 22, 2020

2ND EMPLOYEE HAS COVID-19, SUNY REPORTS

2nd Employee Has Covid-19, SUNY Reports ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta received confirmation this morning that another employee has tested positive for COVID-19, the college announced a few minutes ago. This is the college’s second confirmed case. On April 13, the college reported its first case. The affected employee is not at work, has not been in their office since April 7 and will be quarantined until April 27.…
April 17, 2020

Sheriffs, Code Enforcement Tasked With COVID-19 Complaints

Sheriffs, Code Enforcement Investigate COVID-19 Complaints By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If you see something, Governor Cuomo suggests, say something. “We’ve been contacted about businesses having too many people in the store, people not wearing masks, that sort of thing,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. As part of Cuomo’s executive order, complaints can be lodged by citizens if they see non-essential businesses open, non-emergency private construction work, or gatherings where more than 10 people are…
April 15, 2020

Pathfinder Village Aims To Calm, Inspire Residents On Lockdown

Pathfinder Village Aims To Calm, Inspire Residents On Lockdown By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EDMESTON – Like many people, Laurie enjoys going to her favorite coffee shop – the Pathfinder Village Bakery – in the morning. But with COVID-19 closing down the campus and confining the residents to their homes, the bakery is closed. But her house manager, Jamie Miner, set up a coffee shop on her back porch, complete with a freshly brewed pot and coffee shop…
April 14, 2020

SUNY Confirms First COVID-19 Case

SUNY Confirms 1st COVID-19 Case ONEONTA – A SUNY Oneonta employee has tested positive for COVID-19 in the school’s first confirmed case, SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris has announced. According to a press release from the college, the affected employee is not at work and has been quarantined on campus since April 6, except when the individual was transported off campus to be tested for COVID-19.…
April 13, 2020

‘Porch Lights’ Proclamation Honors Essential Workers

MAYOR TILLAPAUGH DECLARES: Turn Your Lights On To Support Heroes Of COVID Pandemic COOPERSTOWN – In a proclamation issued this morning, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch established a Porch Lights For Support program, starting tonight. Before you go to bed, she asked Cooperstown residents, turn on your porch lights  as “a visible way to show support for all essential workers…in gratitude for all those working to keep us safe.” The idea picks up on New York City folks making a ruckus…
April 13, 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