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AllOTSEGO.com • COUNTY’S ONLINE DAILY NEWSPAPER “Daddy Al’s” Christmas tree is headed to Rockefeller Center Thursday, Nov. 12.
Hello, Rockefeller Center! 2nd Oneonta Fir In 4 Years Heads For Big Apple By LIBBY CUDMORE WEST ONEONTA
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John Dudek, Oneonta, picks up some fresh produce from Elenore Blakeslee of Berry Brook Farm at the Oneonta Farmers’ Market, which has moved inside the Foothills Atrium every Saturday through mid-April.
Farm Market’s In New Home Inside Foothills
upervisor Bob Wood doesn’t want to brag, but there really is something special about the Town of Oneonta.
“From my understanding, it’s the first time they’ve selected two trees from one community,” said Wood. “The rumor is they wanted it four years ago, but it wasn’t quite big enough.” With preparations underway to wrap and cut the 75-foot-tall fire on “Daddy Al” Dick’s Route 23 property, Oneonta is now home to Please See TREE, A7
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SUNY vs. COVID II Oberacker To Go, But Now What? Filling Vacancy Quickly May Require Consensus By JIM KEVLIN
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alongside deputy clerk Pat Windsor. ►Dog park near-complete in Milford’s Wilber Park. ►Bud garretson, 92 Cherry Valley dairyman, dies. ►oneonta farmers’ market inside Foothills for winter. ►taylor hollist, 84, helped build Latter-Day Saints church. ►sign arises in front of Milford Church. ►Oneonta girl scout paints Fox Helipad.
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nside the barn at 325 Williams Road, Chief Chris Vuolo, Fly Creek VolunJim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA teer Fire Department, could
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or the last two weeks, SUNY Oneonta Interim President Dennis Craig has Craig been listening – to staff, to community members, to students. “We have identified that 50 percent of the students desire on-campus courses,” he said in an address sent to the campus community on Monday, Nov. 9. As such, Craig plans to re-open the campus as a “low-density” model, with approximately 900 of the Please See PLAN, A6
COVID Up; Stay Home, People Told COOPERSTOWN
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ith 46 cases of COVID-19 already identified in November, Heidi Bond, Otsego hear “multiple” explosions. “There were propane tanks County and boxes of fireworks stored Public Health inside,” he said. “No one was director, has a warning for residents: hurt, thank God.” If you have symptoms, The fire, which destroyed stay home. Wood Bull Antiques owner “We’re getting lax in Kip Coburn’s barn on Please See COVID, A6 Please See FIRE, A7
Raging Blaze Levels Antiques-Filled Barn The blaze quickly leveled the Wood Bull Antiques storage barn.
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By JIM KEVLIN
few weeks ago, the young mother COOPERSTOWN ith the walkway of a newborn died space deemed – suddenly, before she and eter Oberacker, unsafe for social the baby’s dad could follow elected state senator distancing, the Oneonta through on their intent to on Nov. 3, will be Farmers Market has found wed. leaving the Otsego County a new winter space in the AlSTATE SEN. Board atrium of Foothills ready Dec. 31 at JIM SEWARD stricken, “They’re very accessible, the latest EUGENE A. they have great parking, it’s the young and is everything a farmers market BETTIOL JR. father disblocked by could dream of,” said Meg DISTINGUISHED covered the county Kennedy, market president CITIZEN he had board’s and owner of ARK Floral. no legal Rules of In addition to ARK Floral, claim on the little boy. Order Berry Brook Farm, Tauzel This is the kind of story from voting Farms, Mulligan Creek, state Sen. Jim Seward, ROberacker on his Middlefield Orchards, 221 Milford, will tell you when successor. Bakery, and Mill Hollow asked about the most satisfyAbsent bipartisanship, that Maple will have booths in ing part of his 34 years in creates a deadlock. the winter market. There are 6,228 “weighted office: constituent service, votes” distributed among the helping the people of his 51st FULL COVID STORIES ON District. 14 county reps, and without Alerted to the dilemma, Oberacker’s 534 votes, the OTSEGO.com Republicans don’t have the the senator’s staff sprang into 3,115-vote majority to fill his action. ►oneonta vet’s club marks Saturday, Nov. 7, his daughseat unilaterally. Veterans Day at Neahwa ter Lauren had just relayed a Democrats control 2,807 Park with socially distanced weighted votes, also insuffi- message: “Thank your father. I ceremony. Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA have my son in my arms.” ►Cooperstown village clerk cient to fill the seat. A safe social distance from the camera, Sen. Jim Please See SEWARD, B3 and Cindy Seward pose on their back porch. Please See VACANCY, A3 Jenna Utter assumes duties
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Low-Density Plan Will Let Students Back
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