Omniscient Siri will guide you along the myriad roads that lead to Cooperstown. Better still, since a picture is worth a thousand words, consulting a map (remember them?) will more vividly prove the point. From any point on the continent, roads will bring you here.…
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135 YEARS AGO: The Cooperstown Hospital—The four children of the late Mrs. Jane R.A. Carter unite in the generous gift of $10,000 for the proposed Village Thanksgiving Hospital, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to erect a suitable building for that purpose—one-half to be paid on the commencement of the structure and the rest when needed. The gift is by Mrs. P.A.H. Brown, Mrs. G. Hyde Clarke, Miss Anna Grace Carter, and Mrs. L. Averell Carter, and will…
50 Years Ago: The gold rush that generally started as a slow walk resumes Thursday after a one-day holiday break. Thomas W. Wolfe, head of the Treasury’s Office of Domestic Gold and Silver Operations, said the first day of legal sale of gold bullion to American citizens in 41 years showed that demand was extremely slow and almost nonexistent. Specialists had predicted that the end of the ban on private ownership of gold bullion might create a modern gold rush.…
In 2024, our work was supported by 3,252 volunteer hours. SQSPCA volunteers help push our organization to the next level. Thrift shop volunteers, an incredible group of talented and caring people, come in week after week to help raise money for the animals. We certainly couldn’t succeed, or do what we do, without them.…
A recent national news report revealed that physicians are quitting nationwide, said to be demoralized by the current state of the healthcare system. In the days and weeks before I wrote this “Partial Observer,” 117,000 physicians reportedly left their professions across the U.S., with projections that one in five will soon be stepping away.…
It's no wonder that only half of LGBTQ+ employees are open about their identity with their supervisors. When we're forced to hide who we are, we're not able to bring ourselves to work, which impacts not only our well-being but also the overall success of our team.…
The chamber offers a range of initiatives to support local businesses, including networking and educational events. These initiatives help businesses stay apprised of industry trends, connect with potential partners and learn from experienced professionals.…
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…
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…
An earlier column this year asked “Where Did All of the Inflation Come From?” A big myth was busted when we discovered that the origins of recent inflation dated to Trump’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which injected $2.3 trillion into an economy with a 4 percent unemployment rate in 2019.…