CLICK HERE FOR FULL T-U ARTICLE And Then There Were 6: Capital Region To Open ALBANY – The Capital Region’s economic development region can reopen this week, the Times Union is reporting today. It will join five other regions, including Otsego County’s Mohawk Valley region, that opened Friday. This would mean more than half of the state’s 10 regions have now entered “Phase One” of Governor Cuomo’s four-phase revival of the state’s economy. Also, Cuomo announced over the weekend that…
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(new) NORMAL ARRIVING OTSEGO COUNTY ABOUT TO ENTER PHASE 1 OPENING In Week, Debate Over Baby Step Turns Into Big Forward Strides By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For Otsego County businesses (and local governments that depend on the sales taxes they generate), it was the week the iceberg cracked. Just last Wednesday, May 6, the county Board of Representatives heatedly debated a mild resolution nudging Governor Cuomo to “reopen” Otsego County as soon as he could, please. “Leave…
UPDATED AT 2:32 P.M. TODAY OTSEGO COUNTY WINS PHASE ONE REOPENING SLOT By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – County board Chairman David Bliss has announced shortly after 2 p.m. that Otsego County businesses and industry have been included in Phase One of the state’s reopening from the coronavirus lockdown, effective this Friday, May 15. “This is the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Bliss. “But we’re still in the middle of the tunnel. We have…