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News from the Noteworthy: Chamber Hosts Educational Zoom: ‘Ask an Expert’

“Ask an Expert” via Zoom is a series designed to provide in-depth knowledge on specific topics relevant to our small-business members. Our goal is to offer access to expert insights and practical advice in an interactive and engaging format. During these sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in one-on-one conversations in a supportive environment while learning from our featured speakers, who are also fellow chamber members.…
October 17, 2024
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Life Sketches: Can’t Bill No Dead Man

I have a tremendous resistance to change. I guess that’s why, in my 50s, I had the same bicycle for 43 years, the same power lawn mower for 40 years and the same old Chevy convertible for more than 30 years. Alice, my wife of 27 years at that time, must have felt pretty secure knowing my propensity for maintaining the status quo.…
October 17, 2024

Bound Volumes: October 17, 2024

160 YEARS AGO: Ladies at the County Fair—Our attention was first directed to the Domestic Manufactures. The Ladies deserve much praise, for their department has become an attractive feature of the Exhibition. There was a good display of quilts. There were 12 entries. A beautiful silk patchwork quilt, containing 3,000 pieces, by Mrs. James F. Smith of Richfield Springs, was much admired as a work which had required no little time and skill to complete; another by Miss Amanda Belknap…
October 17, 2024

Hometown History: October 17, 2024

110 YEARS AGO: One of the largest and most enjoyable social functions in years in this city was the reception given Friday night by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Bresee and Mr. and Mrs. Lynn H. Bresee in the handsome new block just completed on Wall Street for the Oneonta Department Store annex, at which about 500 guests were present. Surprise and amazement were expressed on the faces of all the guests as they entered the spacious building which is…
October 17, 2024
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The Dog Charmer: How To Handle a Chicken Dog

I’ve got a 3-year-old boxer who I adopted from a shelter at age 1. He’s killing my image! His name is “Macho” and I’m thinking of changing it. He’s afraid of everything, I mean, everything! If I raise my voice, he’ll pee. A friend scared Macho when he dropped his phone and two weeks later Macho still avoids him like the plague.…
October 17, 2024
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On Stage: ‘Proof’: Sibling Rivalry, the Mysteries of Science and Black Cat Energy

The show itself depicts two sisters, Catherine and Claire, dealing with the death of their father, Robert, a genius mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, who dies in his 50s after a lengthy battle with mental illness. Also in the play is Hal, formerly Robert’s graduate student, now a member of the mathematics department. Hal revered his former mentor and is dealing with his own grief by working to elevate and capture all Robert’s work so that his legacy…
October 16, 2024

Bound Volumes: October 10, 2024

110 YEARS AGO: The village of Cooperstown is to be honored next Tuesday by a visit from Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States. Colonel Roosevelt will arrive during the mid-afternoon and will address a meeting in the Village Hall at 4 o’clock, coming here from Cobleskill and going thence to Oneonta, where he speaks in the evening. He is accompanied on the trip by ex-Senator Frederick M. Davenport, the Bull Moose candidate for Governor who will also speak. These…
October 10, 2024
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