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While cessation resources are crucial for those seeking to quit, combatting nicotine addiction requires extra support, not only from friends and family, but from the larger community.…
Christmas songs were melting out of the radio as a cold wind howled outside. I pictured Patches’ Pond working on the turkey. After a little coaxing, Alice admitted that I had come up with an ingenious last-minute solution. The kids would be arriving the next day.…
185 YEARS AGO Experience has shown that the tendency of all human government is, to corruption, oppression, and, finally, dissolution. Of course, no reflecting mind has hoped or expected that our government would, ultimately, be exempt from the common lot. Yet there were thousands—and we were among them—who had hoped, if they had not actually believed, that a government in itself so perfect and so well calculated to “secure the greatest happiness of the greatest number” as ours, might prove…
70 Years Ago A program on Americanism, directed by Mrs. Foster Crosby, highlighted the Christmas party of Sidney Chapter, DAR Wednesday in the Community House. Mrs. Crosby, in a reading on Communism in this country, described a devotee to Communism as a fanatic who lives only for his party, placing that above everything. She urged Americans to exert themselves to spread Americanism so others may realize how necessary freedom is in our way of life. Howard Dunbar, faculty member of…
I promise to communicate economics in a clear fashion. I will also strive to stay apolitical, which was the standard I held myself to as a college professor for 37 years. That’s consistent with my being an active voter and a registered Independent.…
Creating pathways to success is the task of the Otsego Innovation Acceleration Center, a partnership of organizations to help entrepreneurs bring innovations to market and provide access to mentors.…
In the mid-20th century, Oneonta was the mecca and the “place to be.” In this new paradigm, we’ll find reconnection to our vibrant past as well as to our possibility and potential.…
135 YEARS AGO Local: It is suggested that the Literary Society of Cooperstown take the initiative in organizing the Otsego County Historical Society. The law against coasting on the sidewalks should be enforced. If those who have icy walks in front of their premises will take the proper means to do away with the danger often resulting therefrom, they will do a good deed. It is suggested that when the Cooperstown railroad orders new locomotives, they may be of the…
40 Years Ago In a further effort to protect President Reagan and the White House from terrorism, the Secret Service has the ability to use ground-to-air missiles to shoot down suspicious aircraft flying near the White House without authorization, a source said Monday. The disclosure follows a series of steps to insulate the White House from terrorist attacks. The Secret Service monitors aircraft flying into and out of nearby National Airport from a control center in the Old Executive Office…
