With 48 New COVID Cases, Health Dept. ‘Overwhelmed’ COOPERSTOWN – With 27 cases of COVID-19 reported Saturday and 21 this afternoon, Public Health Director Heidi Bond is warning that the contact tracers are “overwhelmed.” Contact tracers will still contact those who have been identified as positive, but calls to those who were in direct contact with people who tested positive may be delayed because of the high volume of calls to be made.…
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CLICK FOR TEXT OF ANNOUNCEMENT ‘ONE BASSETT’ NOW A REALITY, IBRAHIM SAYS North-South Regions, Pay Cuts, Layoffs Open Way To Profitability By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “OneBassett” is here, Network President/CEO Tommy Ibrahim announced yesterday. Ibrahim, who arrived in June from Integris Health Systems in Oklahoma, also announced the reorganization of the eight-county network is largely complete. It creates a North Region (Bassett and Little Falls hospitals) and a South Region (Cobleskill, Fox and O’Connor in…
Library Staff in Quarantine After Co-Worker Tests Positive Hospitalizations At 18 As 25 More Test Positive COOPERSTOWN – 25 more county residents have tested positive for COVID-19, with 18 people now hospitalized as COVID numbers show no signs of slowing down, Heidi Bond, county public health director, reported this morning. 869 in quarantine, Bond reported, with the total number of active cases at 158. Of the 18 in the hospital, four people remain in the ICU.…
Ooh, Ah In Oneonta, Starting 12/18 Decorating Underway For Festival Of Lights Brook Moser, 10, and her brother Caleb, 5, joined the gang from Oneonta’s Keller Williams Realty this morning to decorate the front lawn of the city’s Department of Recreation office in Neahwa Park. Mom Angela Moser, a KW real-estate agent, reports her children painted the figurines, which are new this year, in anticipation of the Festival of Lights, which is planned to light up the City of the…
IN MEMORIAM James S. Ainslie, 93; Farmer, Rural Carrier For Post Office RICHFIELD SPRINGS – James S. Ainslie, 93, of Ainslie Road, Town of Otsego, a farmer and longtime rural mail carrier, passed away Wednesday morning, Dec. 9, 2020, while being transported to the hospital. His family regrets they could not be with him due to COVID-19 restrictions; he will be greatly missed. A kind, giving man, loving husband, grandfather and dedicated father, he would do anything to help family,…
SFCU Sponsors Financial Literacy Lessons For Kids ONEONTA – With a free online curriculum, Sidney Federal Credit Union aims to help local students learn money management. “More than ever, it’s important that kids develop sound financial skills to prepare them for the real world,” said Morgan Vandagriff, co-founder of Banzai, an award-winning financial literacy program. “Sidney FCU realizes that, and they’re doing something about it.”…
Tree Lighting Goes Virtual ONEONTA – The annual Christmas tree lighting will be held virtually this evening, with Santa lighting the tree in a video broadcast at 6:30 p.m. on Destination Oneonta’s Facebook page. Following the tree lighting, there will also be performance by holiday music by “country sweetheart” Krystal Lee, of East Meredith, recorded at Foothills Performing Arts Center.…
EDITORIAL 3 Democrats Prove They Believe In Bipartisanship Let’s Call It: ‘Profiles In Fairness’ It’s a bit of a Christmas story, coming out of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, of all things. It involves at least four of Pope Gregory’s “Seven Virtues” – Charity, Patience, Kindness and Equanimity. (The Seven Deadly Sins, of course, have a higher profile.) Famously, talk is cheap, when it comes to bipartisanship (and generally). But three county representatives – Andrew Marietta, Andrienne Martini and…
