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.…
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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?…
The threat of an industrial scale wind turbine project negatively impacting the Glimmerglass Historic District and the Holy Trinity Monastery is looming once again here. The developer is Terra-Gen and the project is euphemistically called “Rolling Hills.”…
185 YEARS AGO: The “Law Reforms,” about which the Legal Gentlemen talk so much as “taking the bread from the mouth of labor,” seem to have but little effect upon the rush to the Bar, for the New York papers give the names of 45 persons admitted as Counsellors, and 81 as Attorneys, during the present term of the Supreme Court.…
70 YEARS AGO: The first phase of a four-part survey to determine the economic need of establishing a commercial airport in this area will begin today (Tuesday, May 29, 1956). More than 1,500 questionnaires to determine the extent of use an airport would receive by students and faculty of the two local colleges will be distributed to the schools this afternoon, according to Dr. Leroy S. House, chairman of the city committee on establishing an airport in this area.…
