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Bound Volumes: August 22, 2024

160 YEARS AGO A rebel invasion of the State of New York being seriously apprehended, Governor Seymour has directed Brigadier General J.A. Green to take charge of the northern boundary of the State, and to call out what troops may be found necessary to repel any marauders who may attempt to invade the State. It is stated that a large number of rebels have gathered in Canada for the purpose of making a sudden dash on the frontier towns of…
August 22, 2024

Hometown History: August 22, 2024

90 YEARS AGO An outbreak of anti-Christian propaganda from Nazi sources has stirred the troubled church situation in Germany causing apprehension in Catholic and some Protestant groups. August Hoppe of the Hitler Youth press department has written in a periodical titled “Bordland”…
August 22, 2024
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News from the Noteworthy: Family Farm Day Celebrates Local Agriculture

CCESO’s annual Family Farm Day is a unique opportunity for visitors to experience engaging “open farm” tours and interactive activities at participating farms in Schoharie, Otsego, and Delaware counties. Visitors to these farms can learn about local agriculture, and FFD farms can share their ever-evolving “stories”—their operations, their products, their history, and their vision. FFD familiarizes visitors with the diverse operations of local farms and keeps the important role of agriculture in our region in the public dialogue.…
August 15, 2024

Bound Volumes: August 15, 2024

210 YEARS AGO Advertisement—For Sale, Twenty-six and three fourths of an acre of Land, lying about equally divided on both sides of the Great Western Turnpike Road, seven miles west of Cooperstown, in the Town of Otsego, being part of Lot No. 33, in Croghan’s Patent, formerly occupied by Samuel S. Munro, deceased.…
August 15, 2024

Hometown History: 08-15-24

The Oneonta Phosphate Company uses material which has heretofore gone to waste. It is located about one mile east of the village. The superintendent of this company, Mr. A.B. Coffin, began the manufacture of phosphate about five years ago in the village of Middlefield. He gradually enlarged his works there til he was able to send out 240 tons a year.…
August 15, 2024
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The Partial Observer: A New Push for the Build Public Renewables Act

No credible fiscal or engineering analysis was ever presented to support the state plan. While Governor Hochul herself recently noted that state policy will prove costly, any expense at all to tax- or rate-payers in pursuit of a plan which will not work, which, ultimately, will require a new plan to fix the ensuing energy catastrophe, is a mistake.…
August 8, 2024

Bound Volumes: August 8, 2024

210 YEARS AGO Advertisement—Just Received and for sale at H. & E. Phinney’s Bookstore, “The Justices’ Directory Improved or Points on Certiorari: Being a Digest of the Cases Reported by Caines & Johnson” by a Gentleman of the Bar—Price 37.5 cents.…
August 8, 2024
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