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Volume 16, No. 25
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Glimmerglass Festival Unveils New Infirmary, Health Program time, alters the traditional economic relationship between workers, busiSPRINGFIELD nesses, and clients. ess than a mile north “This collaboraof the Glimmertion pioneers a unique, glass Festival main comprehensive health and campus lies Malton Place wellness program tailored which, since the summer for opera and theater of 2000, has been used professionals,” officials to house apprentices said in a press release. and staff. Now Malton “The program is a model Place, once the Deer for the opera and theater Run Motel, will also be industry, addressing the Photo provided the site of a new infirhealthcare disparities and DR. JEFFREY BAILEY mary for Glimmerglass lack of access to health employees. insurance that industry professionals On Friday, April 5, festival officials with atypical schedules and inconsistent unveiled what they call “an unprec- employment often face.” edented partnership.” Glimmerglass Kira Delanoy, director of communiMedical & Wellness LLC, a local cations for the Glimmerglass Festival, provider of institutional health and explained further. wellness programming and concierge “Healthcare disparities in this popuprimary care services, will offer regular lation are based on access to care when weekly hours at the Glimmerglass traveling for work, non-traditional Festival campus. The infirmary “will work schedules, and navigating a ensure easy access to healthcare services multitude of in- and out-of-state insurfor Glimmerglass staff, apprentices, and ance carriers and their respective poliperformers,” offering first aid, triage cies,” she said. of illness, acute-care escalation, and The infirmary space is currently identification of episodic needs that a under renovation, continued Delanoy, primary care provider should address, who described the location as ideal. at no cost to Glimmerglass employees. “The new infirmary is designed to The impetus for the new infirmary provide a comfortable and functional centers around healthcare disparities in space for employee first aid, immediate what is commonly referred to as the “gig examinations, and escalation to acute economy.” Theater and music profes- care if needed,” Delanoy said in an esionals live a gig-to-gig life, getting paid mail on Monday, April 15. “The space for jobs as they are completed. According will include appropriate equipment, to TechTarget, the gig economy is based storage, and office furniture provided on flexible, temporary or freelance jobs, by [Glimmerglass] Festival, as well which has the benefit of allowing for a as additional equipment donated by more flexible lifestyle but, at the same Continued on page 7 By DARLA M. YOUNGS
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Clare Anderson witnessed the demolition of her house at 20 Richards Avenue on March 27. Behind her are the excavator and what remains of the home of Desmond Moan, who died on December 9 when a gas explosion leveled his house.
Richards Avenue Gas Explosion Not Over for Residents By Teresa Winchester and Robert Bensen
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ONEONTA arbara Doyle watched the jaws of the excavator demolishing her house. It had been firedamaged, the entire north wall blown off, mattress and furniture spilling out of the sagging floors. She shouted as the jaws of the machine tore into the roof again and again, “You animal! You animal!” Then she paused. “This is such fun,” she said. “It should have happened a long time ago.” Gone is the house at 16 Richards Avenue built in the 1930s. Gone are the new windows Doyle had put in, the new porches, and
the solar panels on the garage roof. The wreckage was hauled away, the yard filled with topsoil and leveled. It is now a vacant lot. The March 25 demolition took place nearly four months after the December 9, 2023 gas explosion that took the life of Doyle’s next-door neighbor, Desmond Moan, who lived at 18 Richards Avenue. The explosion had blown his house to smithereens. Shockwaves were felt for miles around, the sound of it reportedly heard as far as 15 miles away. The blast shook houses throughout the entire neighborhood, rocked some off their foundations, shattered walls and windows—and the Continued on page 8
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COOPERSTOWN he Cooperstown Village Board of Trustees and the Otsego Town Board unanimously approved annexation of just over 13 acres located in the Town of Otsego to jurisdiction of the Village on Wednesday, April 10. Officials met at the Cooperstown Central School on March 22, 2023 to review the proposed Village of Cooperstown Southern Boundary Extension/ Annexation, comprised of four parcels of land, all of which are uninhabited and tax exempt. Those properties and their owners are: • County of Otsego (3.9332 acres; Tax Map No. 131.00-1-25.00 Hwy Dept.) Photo by Robert Bensen • Village of Cooperstown (6.5207 acres; Tax Map The home of Barbara Doyle, 16 Richards Avenue, as it stood on January 4. After condemContinued on page 7 nation, the house was razed on March 25.
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