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Bound Volumes: January 2, 2025

185 YEARS AGO: Tobacco—We are of the opinion that tobacco has a much more deleterious effect upon the constitution than is generally apprehended, either when snuffed, chewed, or smoked. Tobacco chewers and tobacco smokers are worse off, if possible, than snuff takers. They may live longer than the rum drinker and some constitutions possibly may not suffer essential injury in the moderate use of tobacco. But there is a danger that moderate smoking and chewing may create an inordinate desire…
January 2, 2025

Hometown History: January 2, 2025

50 Years Ago: The Best of Television—“Of Women & Men” NBC News Special—Ambitious, provocative three-hour study of the changing relations between women and men in a multitude of fields, ranging from sex, life-styles, family life, education and divorce, to jobs, politics, religion and sports. Reporters Barbara Walters and Tom Snyder handle their jobs as co-hosts and interviewers with sensitivity, and the fact comes through that women have, indeed, changed and broadened the pattern of their identities to permit a wide…
January 2, 2025
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Citizen Science: Energy Demystified: Honing Light from Stonehenge to Science

Mere days before the winter solstice this year, on December 17th, I had the opportunity to visit Stonehenge with my son and husband. Driving clockwise in roundabouts and on the left-hand side of narrow roads gave my brain a workout, but I could still spare a moment of shock as I crested the top of a hill and saw the lone group of large stones surrounded by fields and sheep.…
December 27, 2024
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News from the Noteworthy: CSO – Creating Magic Right Here for 71 Years

The Catskill Symphony Orchestra has been creating magic right here for 71 years. It began as a humble community orchestra, with students, SUNY faculty, and local musicians sharing the stage. Over the decades, it’s grown into a professional ensemble of more than 50 core members, performing up to five concerts a season. Under the baton of Conductor Charles “Chuck” Schneider and now Artistic Director Glen Cortese, the CSO has evolved into a true cultural gem.…
December 27, 2024

Bound Volumes: December 26, 2024

160 YEARS AGO: A Case of Manslaughter – In the little settlement of Toddsville, are two licensed taverns or saloons; one kept by Jabez R. Weeks; the other by J.T. Burk. They are understood to have been at enmity. On Friday afternoon last, a party of three or four men were engaged in drinking and amusing themselves at Weeks’. Toward evening they went over to Burk’s and commenced breaking tumblers, &c., Weeks being one of the party. Burk undertook to…
December 26, 2024

Hometown History: December 26, 2024

90 YEARS AGO: The Post Office yesterday delivered some 500 gift packages to Oneontans, who, but for a recent order of Postmaster General James A. Farley, otherwise would have had to wait until today for their presents from relatives or friends. Delivery of packages on Christmas day is a new idea with the Post Office department according to Oneonta Postmaster Chester A. Miller. Letters and parcels were also dispatched on Sunday in an effort to expedite the handling of the…
December 26, 2024
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Hawthorn Hill Journal: Mismanaging Human Integrity

As I sit here looking out my window every day, and after reading through what are considered credible news resources most mornings, one cannot help but be struck by the preponderance of incivility just about everywhere. Perhaps my thoughts at this moment are clouded by the dismal view from my study window.…
December 19, 2024
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