70 YEARS AGO War on Sex Morons—Appointment of a temporary parks policeman to rout sex morons from city parks is on the agenda for tonight’s session of the Oneonta City Public Safety Board. The Board will have before it a resolution from the Common Council,…
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Data from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation indicates a marked rise in the deer population in Central New York. This surge is attributed to several factors, including mild winters, changes in land use and successful conservation efforts.…
At the Susquehanna SPCA, we try to empower people to join our mission and to provide assistance for the animal they are calling about. Maybe we can talk them through their situation and advise on the food and supplies they need to care for the animal themselves. Maybe we can rehome their pet, but we need them to foster the animal for a while.…
Whether it’s a screech, a squeal, a squeak, or a much more pleasant sound—a violin bow rubbing across a string is another stick-slip example—sound energy is a form of mechanical energy that travels through a medium (usually air, water or solid objects) as a wave.…
In the 19th century, there was steamer traffic between the north end of Otsego Lake and Cooperstown. The Public Landing in Springfield was a destination for travelers from Albany who would leave their carriages and embark on the steamer, which would make several stops on the journey south, for example at Five Mile Point and Three Mile Point.…
For several years, my wife Alice and I have been attending a summer concert that takes place at the Windfall Dutch Barn in Salt Springville, New York. There’s always a different group that comes to entertain, but musician and composer Carlton Clay usually enthusiastically presides over the event. One year, conductor and pianist Charles Schneider, accompanied by four singers, came to explain and then demonstrate how Leonard Bernstein almost mathematically put together “West Side Story”—not to mention words by Stephen…
210 YEARS AGO James Graham was executed at Delhi, Delaware County, on Friday last, pursuant to the sentence of the law, for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGillivray in July 1813. He ascended the scaffold with a firm and bold step, and before being turned off, declared, and called God to witness, that he was innocent of the crime; and that if ever a murder was committed in the State of New York, his executioners were now about…
70 YEARS AGO Lawrence “Butch” Gennarino, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gennarino, 29 Grand Street, returned home unexpectedly late yesterday. Gennarino was one of the more than 200 seamen critically injured on May 26 when an explosion occurred aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Bennington 75 miles off the coast of New England, killing 90 of his shipmates. Following the explosion Gennarino was placed on the critical list. With his family at his bedside at the U.S. Naval Hospital…
This annual garlic adventure of mine turns out to be a time to wrestle, without having to pin them down, some of the more worrisome problems we now face “in these United States.” It is easy to ignore unpleasantness; even harder to know what to do about it. As I was hanging up the last of the garlic, I was thinking of W.B. Yeats’ great poem, “The Second Coming.”…
160 YEARS AGO: Lieutenant F.W. Foote of the 121st Regiment, reported killed, is alive and prisoner in Libby Prison, Richmond. He was wounded in an engagement on the 10th of May, captured, and was obliged to have a leg amputated above the knee. In a letter to his Mother he says: “I passed through everything safely until the 10th when about sunset, eight picked regiments selected from our corps were detached to charge a position of the enemy’s works consisting…
