Keeping track of asteroids, comets and meteors is a truly astronomical task, requiring the efforts of professionals and amateurs utilizing powerful computers and telescopes.…
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Ivory, 98, a lion of the cinema, charmed attendees in an extended chat with a question and answer session prior to the screening of his 1993 film, “The Remains of the Day,” which took place in Hyde Hall’s Wood Barn.…
Getting rid of garlic mustard can be a challenge. The single best way to control this invasive species is to physically pull the tall, second-year plants when the ground is moist in the spring and before the flowers go to seed.…
135 YEARS AGO: Children’s Day—An interesting service, consisting of vocal and instrumental music, will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning next, in place of the usual church service, by and under the auspices of the Sunday School.…
135 YEARS AGO: Two very convenient shortcuts from Dietz Street have recently been closed up—one to Chestnut Street via the Windsor Hotel and the other to Reynolds Avenue across the lands of John Amsden.…
Visiting Omaha Beach, the hedgerow countryside of Normandy, and the city of St Lo was personal—my father, Sgt. Frank Sempa, fought at those places with the 175th infantry regiment of the 29th Division. On D-Day, he was in a warship in the English Channel waiting for the signal to hit the beach...…
Of all the farms I worked on as a boy, the most memorable was the old Borden Farm, which was on the east side of Canadarago Lake outside of Richfield Springs.…
The Otsego County Conservation Association has received two generous legacy gifts totaling $120,000.00, providing critical support for the organization’s conservation, education, and community programs...…
160 YEARS AGO: The number of emigrant passengers arrived in the United States during the week: 10,498. We learn through the Vice Consul of the of the United States at Hamburg that 150,000 emigrants of the United States have already engaged passage at that port alone...…
90 YEARS AGO: Cornell University’s New York State veterinary college today announced the death of “R-1149” a hen which lived eight years and three months and laid 1,515 eggs. The hen’s life answered two questioned posed by scientists. 1. How long would a hen live if it were not for chicken dinners?…
