This week's briefs include news from the Cooperstown Children's Choir and the Oneonta Democratic Club, among others.…
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The gardenlike exhibit of color and commentary features more than 40 of Joyce’s floral paintings, with notes on her inspiration, creative process, and background on her chosen subjects, which range back to the classification of plants in the 18th century...…
Editorial of April 11, 2024 Dancing in the Dirt We are almost there. Winter is almost over and spring is truly arriving. The highly anticipated solar eclipse has set us on the right course. What we saw here was only a tiny bit partial and ever so slightly cloudy, but we didn’t have to struggle up to the Adirondacks to see this glorious phenomenon. And so, with spring arriving and summer on our doorstep, it’s time to think about getting…
As a pioneering philosopher-mathematician in France, Émilie Du Châtelet argued, as Leibniz did, that a fundamental quantity of motion existed beyond the idea of momentum, which she called the force morte, “the dead force”...…
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Today, research shows that our bird populations have declined by 2.9 billion birds between 1970 and 2018. The impacts expected in the future as a result of climate change pose a dire risk to many of our most common birds. We need to protect birds at home and also in the places where they winter, as well as important stopover sites in other countries along their flyways.…
A fundraiser on behalf of Guinevere Millea, upcoming library events, town news and a call for Memorial Day parade participation.…
The chamber event on Thursday, April 25 will kick off with cocktails and networking from 5:30-6:15 p.m., followed by a sit-down dinner beginning 6:30 p.m. and the awards ceremony. For more information, visit otsegocc.com.…
210 YEARS AGO
Dispatch from Plattsburgh—A Spy Detected: At length, by redoubled vigilance, in spite of the defects of our own laws, the corruption of some of our citizens, and the arts and cunning of the enemy, one Spy, of the hundreds who roam at large over this frontier, has been detected, convicted, and sentenced to Death. He came from the enemy as a deserter, in the uniform of a British corps, had obtained a pass to go into the interior,…
135 Years Ago
The Local News—In excavating the cellar for the Bundy building, a Canadian Sou (coin) was found several feet below the surface. It was well preserved, and though bearing no date, must be very old. L.H. Blend has it.
The organ grinder, as genuine a harbinger of spring as the robin, made his appearance here on Wednesday. He was afterward arrested for cruelty to a boy in his company, but the justice discharged him.
Louise Arnot and company will begin a…