LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Navigating Without a Compass One thing is very clear when dealing with a pandemic, it is very important to have good statistics in order to determine a plan of attack. Without good numbers it’s hard to say what to do next. It’s also important to understand what these numbers mean. With COVID- 19, it has proven difficult to determine its morbidity and mortality rate and its infectivity. Additionally, we’re not sure exactly what the…
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Cooperstown To Allow Outdoor Sales For Summer By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTESGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In an effort to help businesses and bring shoppers back downtown, the Cooperstown Village Board has declared June 1 through Oct. 12 as a Special Event, dubbed “Cooperstown Outdoors,” during their meeting this evening. Business owners in the Commercial District – Main Street – will be allowed to apply for a permit to hold sidewalk sales. “By establishing a special event, we can allow…
Life In The Time of COVID-19 Suffer The Poor Children There remains a lot about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 that we don’t know. What was “common knowledge” yesterday could be proved wrong tomorrow. The risk of morbidity and mortality in children was one of the things we thought we knew but now appears that we didn’t. SARS-CoV-2, the currently accepted scientific name for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, appears to be the precipitating cause of a newly recognized syndrome that causes…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Opening Will Take Until Mid-July On Sunday, April 26, Governor Cuomo outlined the general plan for re-opening the Upstate economy at his daily briefing. A front-page article in this week’s Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta outlines what he said. There are a number of conditions to the various phases of the opening. I will explain how they might affect us in Otsego County. NY PAUSE lasts at least until May 15. Then “phase one”…
Trustees Votes to Strengthen Anti-Bigotry Proclamation By JENNIFER HILL• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –Two weeks after high school boys allegedly attacked another student and shouted homophobic slurs, the Cooperstown Board of Trustees voted in its meeting this morning “unanimously and loudly” to strengthen a 2016 proclamation that the village welcomes people of all backgrounds and does not tolerate acts of bigotry. “I think it’s important to reiterate how much we in Cooperstown deplore racist and homophobic behavior,” said Richard Sternberg,…
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13 Candles Lit For Victims In Pennsylvania, Kentucky By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rev. Joseph Perdue, First Baptist Church of Cooperstown, did not mince words as he read a statement from Zack Jackson, pastor, Community United Church of Christ in Reading, Penn, as part of the vigil for those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue. “This man who committed this massacre is a self-proclaimed Christian,” he said. “You will be tempted to say ‘He’s not…
Candidate Diane Neal Cancels Today’s Talk In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Diane Neal, former “Law & Order SVU” actress and an independent candidate for the 19th Congressional seat, has cancelled this afternoon’s planned 3 p.m. appearance at Cooperstown Village Hall, according to organizer Richard Sternberg, due to an illness in her family. Sternberg said he will conducted a round table discussion about the five candidates who have appeared so far.…