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April 2, 2026

135 YEARS AGO

School Moneys—The total apportionment of school moneys for the year 1891 was $3,860,500, of which Otsego County received $50,539.70; divided as follows—$38,800 for district quotas; $10,519.09 for aggregate days’ attendance; $424.61 for library money; and $800 for supervision at Oneonta. There were 471,671 aggregate days’ attendance, making with library money a trifle over 17 cents and one mill each scholar earned the district by each day’s attendance at school. The total apportionments to the towns are as follows: Cherry Valley, $1,761.91; Decatur, $710.05; Exeter, $1,314.31; Maryland, $2,725.10; Middlefield, $2,473.23; Otsego, $4,117.02; Plainfield, $1,330.67; Richfield, $2,436.85; Roseboom, $1,398.,58; Springfield, $1,654.01; Westford, $1,287.90; and Worcester $2,778.76.

April 2, 1891

110 YEARS AGO

An expedition headed by Professor Warren K. Moorhead of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, will leave Boston, May 15, 1916, to examine the shores of Lake Otsego near Cooperstown then gradually work down the Susquehanna River and up its tributaries of which the Unadilla is an important one to study prehistoric objects of the American Indians. Professor Moorhead’s party will consist of Alanson Skinner, formerly of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, and now of the George Hey Museum of the American Indians of New York. His surveyor is Ernest O. Sugden of Orland, Maine, who has surveyed for four or five other expeditions and three or four trained men. David R. Dorn of this village will aid the expedition in various ways.

April 5, 1916

60 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Central School Board of Education announced tentative plans this week to build a new 800-pupil Junior-Senior High School adjacent to the present Elementary School on Walnut Street. The new structure, estimated to cost between $1.75 and $2 million would replace the present 58-year-old building on Chestnut Street which has been used as a Junior-Senior High School since the Elementary School was opened in the fall of 1954.

April 6, 1966

35 YEARS AGO

The realities of modern farming stand in stark contrast to the romantic myth of the farm. To help people understand the challenges of modern farming and the people who must cope with those challenges the Smithy-Pioneer Gallery and the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies are currently preparing the exhibit titled “Toiling Hands, Troubled Fields—The Otsego County Farm as a Way of Life.”

April 3, 1991