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County Emergency Services Deputy Director Victor Jones has 600 gallons of hand-sanitizer for business that have been self-certified to reopen on forward. ny.gov. Call him at 5474227 to arrange pickup at the Meadows Office Building.
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THIS FOURTH, Jim Robertson, Michelle Bosma’s grandfather, dressed up like Uncle Sam for this undated photo of the Springfield 4th of July parade.
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►bassett, FOX hospitals allow inpatients one visitor at a time. ►IN PAST WEEK, single COVID19 case is reported in county. ►clark sports center shut until “At least Sept. 8” ►Cuomo signs off: “We went from worst to first,” he says at 111th and final daily briefing. ►COUNTY DMV OFFICE opened on Monday in Cooperstown; the Oneonta office is closed.
Village Erasing ‘Indian’ By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Aug. 22, as well as faculty, staff and anyone working on Oyaron Hill, will have to review the Compact and sign it. Classes are due to begin Aug. 31. “We believe (the Compact) is enforceable, we believe that Please See HARTIWICK, B6
Word ‘Insensitive,’ All Trustees Agree
n Juneteenth, Friday June 19, the bell was rung 155 times in the First Presbyterian Church steeple to mark 155 years since the end of slavery in the U.S. Volunteers Tom Heitz and Jim Leslie rang it 50 times each, with the Rev. LaDana Clark ending the sequence with 55 rings. A historical marker in front of the church also marks the end of slavery in New York State in 1827, when local freed blacks held a celebration in the sanctuary. For more details, visit
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Hartwick College,” which college President Margaret L. Drugovich announced in her latest weekly video to the campus community, Sunday, June 21, and is central to the reopening plan submitted to the State of New York. All students returning to campus
Finishing his final term as Governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt rode in a 1932 Cherry Valley parade.
hat do Franklin Delano Roosevelt and elephants have in common? Both will be part of a county-wide parade this Fourth of July – virtually, of course. “When Springfield announced that they would be cancelling their 4th of July parade” – the second-oldest conBosma tinually running such parade in the country – “I knew we had to put something together Please See PARADES, B6
CCS Plans ‘Parade Of Seniors’ Downtown To Show Off Grads By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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lthough no graduations are being held at the Unadilla Drive-In, Cooperstown Central borrowed the idea,
►IF YOU GO: Parade of Seniors is planned at 5 p.m. Sunday, June 28, down Main Street, for community to hail CCS Class of 2020.
and families will watch the 2020 Commencement from parked cars at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28.
t was a constituent that alerted Village Trustee MacGuire Benton to verbiage on historic markers at Council Rock, a Native American meeting place where the Susquehanna River The word “Indians” flows out in the Historic of Otsego Marker at Council Lake. Rock led to the vil“I was lage trustees’ vote. shocked that I hadn’t noticed it previously,” he said. “The sign refers to Native Americans as ‘Indians’. It’s racially insensitive and incorrect, and it needs to be updated.” Please See PLAQUES, B6
Primary Results Will Take Week To Count
“It will be a full ceremony, By JIM KEVLIN with all the students suited up on the field above,” ew York State’s – and Otsego said Superintendent Bill County’s – primary elections Crankshaw. were Tuesday, June 23, but the results won’t be And when families hear known for at least a week. their student’s name over That’s because, due to the coronavirus threat, all Otsego the loudspeaker, they’ll be County voters – and all voters statewide – received abseninvited up to present the Please See PRIMARIES, B4 Please See CCS, B4
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