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EDITION OF MARCH 5-6: Victor Jones, county Emergency Services deputy director, surveys the scene of a Middlefield fire Wednesday, Feb. 28, where five firemen were injured. Two of them, Jon Roach and Scott Monington, were engulfed by flames, spent four days in Upstate Medical Center’s burn unit in Syracuse.
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EDITION OF SEPT. 3-4: After his Sunday, Aug. 30, press conference announcing a two-week hiatus in classes at SUNY Oneonta, the new chancellor, Jim Malatras, high-elbows Criminal Justice major Chris Frommeyer, for asking “the toughest question” – Why weren’t students tested when they returned to campus? Malatras hurried to the campus
after 107 COVID-19 cases broke out overnight, following a “super spreader” party the weekend before when students returned to campus. Infections would reach 749. Along the way, SUNY Oneonta’s president of two years, Barbara Jean Morris, resigned, succeeded by Interim President Dennis Craig, who had successfully quelled the virus at SUNY Purchase.
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EDITION OF DEC. 10-11: “Daddy Al” and Susan Dick pose in front of their West Oneonta spruce as it was lit up at Rockefeller Center. It was the second Otsego County tree chosen within four years as the centerpiece of one of the nation’s foremost Christmas displays.
EDITION OF NOV. 5-6: Otsego County’s next state senator, Peter Oberacker, expresses his thanks to wife Shannon at a victory celebration at Form Tech Solutions, his Schenevus-based company. At right are son Derek and Campaign Manager Ron Wheeler. Jan. 1, Oberacker will succeed state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who served the county in Albany for 34 years.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020 • PHOTOS by IAN AUSTIN & JIM KEVLIN
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