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September 11, 2025
110 YEARS AGO
Infant mortality statistics for July made public show a decrease of 15 points from the rate of July 1914. The month of July this year recorded 844 deaths under one year as compared with 946 in July 1914. This decrease indicates that the campaign for the prevention of deaths for infants, inaugurated last year, continues to effect decreases in the infant death rate outside of New York City. In New York City the rate was 105 as compared with 103 for July of 1914.
September 8, 1915
85 YEARS AGO
A new full-time instrumental music program has been instituted at Cooperstown High School with Eldon Lee as instructor. This course is open to any student desiring instruction on one of the following instruments: clarinet, cornet, trombone, baritone, tuba, French horn, alto horn, flute, oboe, saxophone, drums, violin, viola, cello and string bass. Beginning students will be placed in small classes. Advanced students will be given private instruction. The band and orchestra will be an important part of the program and will rehearse two or three times a week. A Junior Band will be organized for grade students. The organization of an instrumental music department is a move on the part of the Board of Education which is designed to meet a demand that has been very insistent in the past few years. It is believed that it will prove to be of benefit to a large number of the young people in the community.
September 11, 1940
60 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Graduate Center will open for its second academic year next week with 30 students enrolled to study either History Museum Operation or American Folk Culture. The programs are presented through the combined resources of the State University College at Oneonta and the New York State Historical Association. Each will lead to a Master of Arts degree. Dr. Bruce R. Buckley and Frank O. Spinney will be on full-time assignment to the Graduate Center from Oneonta State. Also scheduled for teaching assignments are Dr. William B. Fink, Chair of the Social Sciences Department at SUCO; Per E. Guldbeck, research associate at NYSHA; Dr. Louis C. Jones, Graduate Center Director and NYSHA Director; and Dr. Maynard G. Redfield, Professor of History at SUCO.
September 8, 1965
35 YEARS AGO
The Village Innkeepers hosted the Fly Creek Bees at the Village Crossroads on Sunday and took the match by a 22-16 tally, improving their record in the Leatherstocking Town Ball League to 4-2 in the last match of the regular season. The Bees were slow to find their bats and did not register a tally until the seventh hand when “Phenomenal” Haney caught one of Walter “Wigwam” Wilson’s tosses and smashed it over the trees for an easy four-staker. “Union Jack” Saphier, having returned from a trip to the British Isles, hurled for the Bees but could not keep the Innkeepers’ bats in check even with his dart-like deliveries.
September 12, 1990
20 YEARS AGO
The dialysis unit at Bassett Healthcare is bustling. With 12 chairs that are usually full from 6 a.m. throughout the day, the Cooperstown unit serves 34 patients staffed by a full crew of nurses and other healthcare workers. Along with its associated unit in Oneonta, which services 70 patients, the Bassett facility is the only place locally to offer dialysis, according to Candace Leonard, a medical social worker in the unit. “Our patients come from as far as Chenango and Delaware counties,” Leonard said. “Besides us, the closest facilities are in Binghamton, Utica and Amsterdam.”
September 9, 2005
