75 YEARS LATER, HE REMEMBERS Davis Helped Fly General To See Missouri En Route By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com OTEGO – Last Friday, Aug. 28, Bill Davis wasn’t thinking about the thunderstorm warnings for Otsego County. He was contemplating Aug. 28, but the one 75 years earlier, when he was aboard a B-29 bomber high over the Pacific Ocean with a special sightseer, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater, as World War II was nearing…
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Reopened, ALDI Thrills Oneonta Fans By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Kara Neer, Otego, will have plenty to brag about on her “ALDI Nerds” Facebook group – she spent Friday morning, Aug. 28, shopping at the newest store in the 80-store Tully region, on Oneonta’s Southside. “I love it,” she said. “We had been going to Norwich, which is a schlep, but this is bigger and has more of a selection of vegan and vegetarian food, plus junk…
SUNY-O’s COVID Toll Heads For 300+ ‘No More Classes’ Likely SUNY Outcome By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Within one week, SUNY Oneonta’s COVID-19 explosion appears to have toppled face-to-face on-campus learning. “We are going to reassess in two weeks,” said Kim MacLeod, college spokesperson. “But of all the possible outcomes, going fully remote has the biggest potential to be the outcome.” According to SUNY Oneonta’s figures, 245 students had tested positive as of press time Tuesday evening,…
Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive It’s been reported that SUNY Oneonta’s volunteer quarantining was a SUNY-wide policy. If so, then we can expected similar COVID explosions at Cobleskill, Delhi, Binghamton and across the 64-campus system, unless the campuses can quickly apply SUNY Oneonta’s new regimen of 100-percent testing and a two-week hiatus. Throughout the pandemic threat, there have been calls for uniform policies and instruction from Washington D.C. (or the CDC in Atlanta), so a nation of 320 million…
Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO Too By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As Fox Hospital president, Jeff Joyner, new COO of the Bassett Healthcare Network, brings people together. “Jeff knows that things get done when you work with other people,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, president of the Fox Hospital Board. “And he realized that Fox Hospital, standing alone, wasn’t going to be effective unless the network was effective.” Joyner, who succeeded longtime Fox Hospital President John Remillard, who…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept. 3-4, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE ‘No More Classes’ Likely SUNY Outcome Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO CCS Chief Crankshaw Returns To His Roots AllOTSEGO.life COVID Turns Downtown ‘A Ghost Town’ Reopened, ALDI Thrills Oneonta Fans EDITORIALS Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive HISTORY COLUMNS BOUND VOLUMES: Sept. 3, 2020 HOMETOWN HISTORY: Sept. 4, 2020 COLUMNS WHELAN: What Happened To Freddie Gray?…
With COVID Outbreak, Oneonta ‘A Ghost Town’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 23 years with the Oneonta Police Department, Lt. Christopher J. Witzenburg had never seen a Saturday night like Aug. 29. “It’s never been this quiet,” he said. “It’s a real departure from last weekend, where we just had a ton of house parties. It’s like a switch flipped.” With more than 200 students sickened with COVID-19 following “several large parties” last weekend, SUNY Oneonta…
Crankshaw Returns To His Roots By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When he was in first grade in the Greater Johnstown School District, young Bill Crankshaw counted to 100, and Mrs. Ruby Walter, his teacher, celebrated by singing “How Much Is That Doggy in the Window.” In second grade, Mrs. Greco made sure his samples of cursive writing were submitted every time there was a contest. His penmanship usually won. In third grade, Mrs. Ramsay enrolled him…
Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide To Move Forward 20-20 hindsight is easy but… Aug. 21-23 was critical. That was the first weekend back for SUNY Oneonta’s 6,500 students. For Hartwick College 1,200; but, as it turns out, that was less impactful. For Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council, the focus had been on bars and gatherings on Main Street, but that turned out to be under control. Yes, there were students there, but the heightened public concern, and tavern…
CLICK TO HEAR SUNY PRESIDENT ‘Super Spreader’ Caused Outbreak, Morris Tells Reps DOH’s Bond: ‘It Spread Like Wildfire’; SUNY Cases May Hit 450, Lapin Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The “super spreader” did it. There have been large parties, even larger, at other SUNY campuses, campus President Barbara Jean Morris told the county Board of Representatives this morning. The difference here was the one individual – a “Typhoid Mary” of COVID-19, as county Rep. Danny…
