110 YEARS AGO: Commandments of the Road for Automobilists: The National Council of Industrial Safety asks all automobilists to obey to the letter these ten commandments of the road: Don’t run fast into or across main highways. Don’t take blind curves too fast. Don’t run on the wrong side of the road. Don’t pass street cars when passengers are boarding or leaving. Don’t fail to sound your horn before passing other vehicles. Don’t forget that a car or a person…
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Before too long, when summer will be upon us, there will be soaring solos, passionate duets, gentle trios, and lofty choruses wafting down Otsego Lake from The Glimmerglass Festival, the eminent opera company celebrating its 50th year.…
Fenimore Chamber Orchestra continues its commitment to Cooperstown and the surrounding area in two most important ways. An anonymous donor presented Fenimore Chamber Orchestra with a gift to make certain that children and up to two accompanying adults, high school and university students should all be able to attend our concerts for free.…
While delivery costs have not changed since May 2024, as part of our 2023 agreement with the state, supply costs, which originate from third-party energy suppliers, have dramatically increased this winter. The daily supply rate has increased by more than 50 percent in many cases and in parts of the state, some customers have seen increases of 67 percent or higher.…
Observers help ensure that the issues facing our community are being handled in the open—“in the sunshine”—and that there is transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement that supports good government.…
110 YEARS AGO: One of the most popular actors in the Vitagraph moving pictures is Anders Randolf. He is featured in many of the big productions that appear in the Vitagraph Theatre at Broadway and 44th Street in New York City, and is frequently seen on the screen at the Star Theatre, Cooperstown. Mr. Randolf is well known to many in Cooperstown. He spent a summer at The Fenimore about five years ago, and while here superintended experiments at the…
110 YEARS AGO: The Wilber National Bank has, some weeks since, installed and has been operating one of the latest and most improved Burroughs statement machines – a device that approaches as near to a mechanical book keeper as is easily conceived, and is a marvel to all who have witnessed its operations. With it the bank has daily a statement sheet of each active account, posting and adding all deposits made and subtracting all checks paid by the bank…
News from the Noteworthy from the Community Arts Network of Oneonta CANO Expands Summer Program for Kids, Teens Founded 55 years ago, the Community Arts Network of Oneonta provides arts education, cultural presentations, and community events to residents and visitors in the region while supporting artists in the greater Oneonta area. The organization has undergone many transformations as it seeks to best meet the area’s current needs. The Summer Arts Program for Kids and Teens has grown each year since…
I began with an extensive multi-month-long period of research and data collection. This entailed delving into the characters and technologies that defined the evolution of journalism as a whole since roughly the Spanish American War. From yellow journalism, to the advent of television, to the breakdown of ethics as we approach today, I gained immense swaths of knowledge that I was previously unaware of.…
135 YEARS AGO: The Fly Creek M.E. Church under the pastorate of Rev. J.S. Southworth has been enjoying a year of prosperity unsurpassed in its history. The church property has been greatly improved and beautified, and the spacious auditorium is filled from Sabbath to Sabbath with an intelligent and devout people whose aim is to worship God in the beauty of holiness. During the year there have been one hundred added to the church on probation, and some fifteen taken…
