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Life Sketches: A Sky View of Dad

“Now, don’t ya be touching that crank,” my father warned. “Last time it rained I had a flood.” He was referring to the handle that operated the Sky View window in the roof. It was somebody in Detroit’s brainstorm—people riding in the city cab would be able to see the tops of skyscrapers. Dad viewed the innovation as a leaky nuisance, a target for pigeons.…
July 10, 2025
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News from the Noteworthy: New Operations Coordinator Preps for Festival

When I first arrived in Cooperstown as a student at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, I had no idea just how deeply this place would come to feel like home. Now, having recently graduated and stepped into my new role as operations coordinator with the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, I’m excited to officially introduce myself to the community that has already shown me so much warmth and kindness.…
July 10, 2025
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Signs of the Times Enliven Protest Rallies with Many Messages

Many signs spoke out for democracy: “Protect our democracy!”; “Make America a Democracy Again”; “Democracy doesn’t fear protests, dictators do”; “Democracy Trumps Authoritarianism.” Linda Murray, visiting from Bay Point, Long Island, held up a sign Jeffersonesque in tone: “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”…
July 10, 2025

Bound Volumes: July 10, 2025

135 YEARS AGO: Will Retaliate: The Chinese Minister for the United States arrived at New York on the 7th inst. He said: “Unless the United States government repeals the law which excluded my countrymen from this country we shall treat Americans to a dose of their own medicine. I mean that we shall exclude citizens of the United States from the Chinese empire.” He said that the Chinese government has lived up to its treaties, and the United States government…
July 10, 2025

Hometown History: July 10, 2025

40 YEARS AGO: Enid Carter closed the door on 32 years of her life with the end of the school year at Oneonta high school. She has sold her mobile home in Oneonta and returned to Bovina Center to the house once owned by her grandparents.…
July 10, 2025

Bound Volumes: July 3, 2025

160 YEARS AGO A Short Run—Peterson, whose escape from jail was noticed last week, had but a short run. He was captured by Mr. Loveland, hotel keeper at Otego, on Thursday of last week, in that town. Peterson had procured a six-shooter, which he had loaded in order to meet emergencies, and which he attempted to draw on Mr. L. But that gentleman was a little too quick and strong for him, and took the pistol into his own possession.…
July 3, 2025

Hometown History: July 3, 2025

70 YEARS AGO: Hundreds of persons flocked to the Gas Avenue crossing of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad yesterday to see the results of a wreck that blocked both mainline tracks for six hours and 17 minutes. Three empty freight cars in the middle of an 11-car train went off the track at 8:50 a.m. One demolished the watchman’s cabin, ramming it into the millrace. Another tipped over onto the southbound main tracks and the third stopped upright against the…
July 3, 2025
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