Bound Volumes
June 5, 2025
135 YEARS AGO
Summary News—A sewer is to be laid through Church Street from River to Fair Street, and down Fair to Main Street – the expense of which is borne by Christ Church, Alfred C. Clark and James Bunyan, whose property flanks the sewer on each side the whole distance.
People leaving New York for Cooperstown will find the 9:50 train out of the city the best one, arriving here at 5:25—only 7 hours and 35 minutes on the road—unless there should be a detention on one of the other roads. The train leaving Cooperstown at 2:10 p.m. connects with the boats at Albany.
June 6, 1890
85 YEARS AGO
Miss Helen Elizabeth Fry, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold R. Fry, Cooperstown, was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws at Cornell University last week. After preparing at Cooperstown High School she attended Cornell, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937. While an undergraduate, she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, the Dramatic Club, the Women’s Debate Club, and the Cosmopolitan Club, the organization whose object is to promote social harmony and interests between foreigners and Americans of both student body and faculty. In athletics, she was a member of eight teams and winner of the Cornell “C” for women.
June 5, 1940
60 YEARS AGO
Editorial—Into the 20th Century—When Governor Rockefeller signed a bill Tuesday which outlaws, with two exceptions, capital punishment in New York State, he brought the Empire State into the 20th Century insofar as the administration of justice is concerned. It ends a 17-year fight to banish an archaic and barbaric form of punishment that has no rightful place in modern society. Capital punishment has been in effect in New York since Dutch Colonial times. Since 1891, when the electric chair was first used, 614 persons have been executed. New York thus becomes the 12th state to abandon the use of the death penalty. Abolishment of the death penalty has had strong support from responsible segments of society.
June 2, 1965
35 YEARS AGO
Memorial Day weekend 1990 was a winning time for twelve-year old Erica Collier. Erica and her father Steve Collier won first place in the General Clinton Canoe Regatta Generation Gap race on Friday. She and her Dad beat the boys who came in second and third. Then, on Sunday, Erica got dressed to compete in her first-ever beauty pageant at Albany’s Empire State Convention Center where she placed tenth among 59 contestants to qualify for a national beauty pageant in Orlando, Florida in January. “It was a dream come true,” Erica said.
June 6, 1990
20 YEARS AGO
Village native Teri Barown is getting her desk in order and greasing the wheels of Cooperstown’s government in her new position as Village of Cooperstown Clerk. Born and raised in Cooperstown, Barown graduated from Cooperstown High School in 1979. While she went to college part-time, Barown took a job in Lynn Green’s law office. In subsequent years she worked for the Otsego County Personnel Office, the New York State Historical Association’s Membership Department, and recently as District Clerk for Laurens Central School. “Until I worked in Laurens, I had always been in Cooperstown,” Barown said. “My kids go to school here. It’s like home to me. When I saw this position, I had to go for it. It’s nice to be back in Cooperstown.”
June 3, 2005
