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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, September 22, 2022
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Home, Home on the Range. Where the Deer and the Heifers Play? Kathleen Peters
Photos: Kathleen Peters
A real life rodeo took place in the Schuyler Lake Firemen’s Field on Sunday morning, September 18. Left to right on horseback: Joseph Milton, Jacob Rounds, and Steve Batchelder assembled with their dogs left to right: Scooby, Tinsley and Nova, try to capture a few roaming heifers who escaped from down the road. One of the two young ladies from Taylor Road was lassoed, loaded and sent back home on Sunday. Her sister must have missed her and found her way back home on Monday, without the benefit of the trailer ride.
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Upstate New Yorkers are used to seeing livestock every day and almost everywhere. Even amid the economic crisis in local agriculture, the Leatherstocking region is rich in farms and farm animals. Take a 10-minute drive in any direction from Cooperstown or Oneonta and you will encounter horses, dairy cattle, beefers, sheep, goats, hogs, llamas, alpacas, and more, usually idling peacefully within the fences, barns, and pastures of their hard working owners. Sometimes we forget that the livestock are actually “live” and have minds of their own. Such was the case when seven cows went missing about a month ago from a family farm on County Highway 22 in Exeter. Three of them were soon recovered; two adults have been sighted in the vacant fields on Truman Road, and two of the other freedom-loving heifers continued to roam the badlands off Taylor Road, leaving their distinctive tracks and fertilizer patties in their wake. When the owners received a call over the weekend that the Taylor Road cows had been seen at 1 a.m. crossing State Highway 28, the owners were concerned about the welfare of the cows and that of any humans they might encounter. It was time to call the cowboys again to corral the heifers before they got into any further trouble. Enter WalkerEarl Cattle Company and S&S Horses ‘N Cattle of Argyle, New York, who specialize in just this kind of problem. Wranglers Jacob Rounds, Steve Batchelder, and Joseph Milton (pictured) arrived this past weekend with horses and lassos, and with their dogs Scooby, Tinsley, and Nova (also pictured). Being New York cowboys, they wore baseball hats. Using the Schuyler Lake Fireman’s Field as their base, the three professional cowboys tracked the two heifers to a swampy area nearby, and captured one of the runaways, who was then escorted back to a waiting livestock trailer for the short ride home. They were unable to catch the second, despite several hours of searching. Just as we were going to press, we were informed that number two found her way back home.
Weekly Medical Briefs
U.S. Embarks on Latest COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign as New Bivalent Boosters Roll Out “With a jumble of confusion, eagerness and vaccine fatigue, America embarked in earnest last week on a sprawling new campaign to get Omicron-specific boosters into the arms of a pandemic-weary country.” Millions of doses of bivalent boosters “arrived with little ceremony at pharmacies, nursing homes and clinics across the country, ready to be administered in what health officials now expect to become a yearly inoculation ritual akin to a flu shot.” Early data “from states and several cities showed what health officials described as a robust early response in a moment when vaccine rates have stagnated.” The New York Times 9/18
tional retrospective study offers no evidence that COVID-19 causes AD. There could be a viral etiology at play, or the connection could be related to inflammation in neural tissue from the SARS-CoV-2 infection. Or it could simply be that exposure to the healthcare system for COVID increased the odds of detection of existing undiagnosed AD. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 9/13
Health Experts Warn About Potential Severe Flu Season
COVID-19 Linked to Increased Alzheimer’s Risk
“Health experts are warning the nation to brace for what could be an exceptionally severe flu season this fall and winter, as more people who have not built up immunity over the last few years mix and mingle.” The Hill adds “fewer people are likely to be immune from the flu virus this year because fewer people have been getting the flu over the last two years,” and loosened COVID-19 restrictions may also contribute to a more severe flu season. The Hill 9/15
COVID-19 has been linked to a significantly increased risk for new-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) a new study suggests. The study of more than 6 million people aged 65 years or older found a 50% - 80% risk for AD in the year after COVID-19. The risk was especially high for women older than 85 years. However, the investigators were quick to point out that the observa-
To encourage pediatric coronavirus vaccinations, Boston residents were eligible to receive a $75 gift card if they get updated booster shots Saturday. The back-to-school vaccination event, hosted by the Boston Public Health Commission, is open to everyone 6 months and older. Continued on page 4
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