Taking a hard look at action to date and changing circumstances since passage of climate legislation in 2019, board members learned how onerous the supply chain, land, manpower, and logistical challenges are of attempting to power a state mostly with solar and wind.…
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Across the many local meetings I have now attended, despite the controversies and at times high tensions, my appreciation for the American experiment in democracy has only deepened.…
180 YEARS AGO: The Harm of Hoaxes—Burying Alive! Excerpts from a letter to Col. Prentiss, Editor of The Freeman’s Journal: “I was much gratified on learning that the melancholy story that the corpse of a young lady of Baltimore, who was supposed to have died in a fit, and was a day or two afterwards placed in a vault...…
65 YEARS AGO: President-Elect Kennedy is reported to have assurances of support from U.S. Representative John J. Rooney of New York for the appointment to a high ambassadorial post of least one career diplomat instead of a wealthy political contributor. Rooney is Chairman of the House subcommittee on State Department appropriations...…
The idea that the United States has a responsibility to protect free peoples “anywhere and everywhere” under attack by international aggressors is a recipe for more endless wars.…
Fenimore Chamber Orchestra has received grants from NYSCA for each of the past three years for which it has made application. This year, Fenimore Chamber Orchestra has been awarded the highest grant from NYSCA in the amount of $49,500.00.…
160 YEARS AGO: The Lecture—There was a large gathering at Bowne Hall on Thursday evening of last week to listen to the popular poet Saxe as he discoursed wittily and learnedly of “Poets and Poetry.” There was a natural curiosity to hear a poet’s opinion of his own family—and his clever hits at a large class who imagine themselves at least fifth cousins.…
110 YEARS AGO: Christmas Day—The greatest photo-dramatic production ever seen on the screen will be the attraction at the Oneonta Theatre on Christmas Day when Geraldine Farrar, the celebrated operatic prima donna will appear in a film version of her famous opera “Carmen,” produced by the James L. Lasky Company.…
On the Christmas of her tenth year, I went to Sears and bought Elizabeth a full size, 26-inch, candy-apple red touring bike and stood it under the tree. As a family, we had already done a lot of riding and I thought she’d be delighted to get a full-size bike like Alice’s.…
