You May Include Family Members In ‘In Memoriam’ On COVID Year Dear Friends, We are planning a one-year retrospective of The COVID Year the next editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, which will include an “IN MEMORIAM” section, remembering and honoring our friends and neighbors fatally stricken by the virus. If you have a family member felled by COVID and would like them to be memorialized, then please send – by noon Monday, March 15 – his or…
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Oneonta Prepares To Hire Most Officers in Memory Action On Common Council Agenda By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Common Council is expected to hire seven new police officers – the largest class in memory – when it meets by Zoom at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Mayor Gary Herzig confirmed today. After a one-year hiatus due to COVID, “we had one of the best and most successful recruitments, the highest-quality candidates,” the mayor said. “…While we only have…
SQSPCA THIFT SHOP SOLD Montezuma Winery Plans Tasting Room HARTWICK SEMINARY – Montezuma Winery & Hidden Marsh Distillery in Seneca Falls has bought the Susquehanna Animal Shelter property, and plans to put a tasting room in the Thrift Shop, SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes confirmed a few minutes ago. The other buildings may be used for wine storage, but “what was really attractive to them was the space,” said Haynes. “We have backyards here, bordering on (Oaks Creek), that are…
Quarantine Lifted, Removing Obstacle To Tourist Season By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One of the hurdles to ensuring a successful season for Dreams Park and All Star Village this season is being lifted, Governor Cuomo announced yesterday. Starting April 1, a three-day quarantine for domestic travel to New York State will no longer be required. (Mandatory quarantine will remain for international travelers.) Dreams Park is seeking state Health Department approval to open the season June 1,…
Enjoy Today’s Weather; Saturday, It’s Back To 30s For those in the Northeast experiencing spring fever, including in Otsego County, AccuWeather meteorologists have some not-so-great news: Late winter’s chill is set to return in time for the weekend. Temperatures soared across the Northeast on Thursday. Before noon, temperatures had already climbed to the middle 60s in cities like Philadelphia and D.C., later reaching the 70s during the afternoon. Normal mid-March temperatures for these two cities are in the lower to…
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IN MEMORIAM Reuben James, 88; Chaired SUNY Physics Department ONEONTA – Word has been received that Dr. Reuben James, Ph.D. Ed.D., age 88, died Jan. 18, 2021. He was a SUNY Oneonta physics professor from 1960 to 1997, including 12 years as department chairman. Reuben was valedictorian of his high school class, and graduated from SUNY Potsdam and St. Lawrence University. He then attended Clarkson, University of Pennsylvania, and SUNY Buffalo. He taught science and math in a three Upstate…
COVID In Retreat, Drugovich Reports ONEONTA – After a bump in COVID positives at Hartwick College, President Margaret Drugovich is reporting that testing of every on-campus student and employee this week yielded only two positives (both students) were detected. In addition, three positive cases were found among students who were already in required quarantine off-campus, she added.…
AIM: TO HELP PUPILS, DAIRYMEN Delgado Bill Proposes Whole Milk, Healthy Kids WASHINGTON – Otsego County’s Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, (NY-19) and Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson have introduced the bipartisan Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2021, which allows for unflavored and flavored whole milk to be offered in school cafeterias. It “will help young people maintain a healthy diet while supporting our upstate dairy farmers and processors,” said Delgado. “This legislation is good for young people…
Brzozowski Will Chair Theater Revival Effort ONEONTA – Bob Brzozowski, recently retired Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, was elected chairman of the board of FOTOT, the Friends of the Oneonta, at the annual meeting. Other officers elected are Elizabeth Dunn, PhD, Dean of SUNY Oneonta’s School of Liberal Arts at SUNY Oneonta, as secretary, and Wendy Hunt, CPA at CADE, the Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship, as treasurer.…
