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This Week: 02-22-24

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta February 22, 2024 Front Page Richfield Awarded $4.5 Million in NY Forward Revitalization Funds Animal Art Chamber of Commerce Seeking Nominations Inside Art Garage Returns from Hiatus, Launches Community Show Oneida Indian Nation Releases Report Regional Spelling Bee Winner Headed to National Competition Regatta HoF Inductees Named Locals: People & Businesses in the News O’Connor Ties Record, Returns to States News in Brief News Briefs: February 22, 2024 Editorial Thirteen Decades…
February 22, 2024

Bound Volumes: February 22, 2024

135 YEARS AGO Corn is still and probably always will be our staple commodity. Last year we produced 2,000,000,000 bushels. The average price paid was only 23 cents per bushel, but even at this low price the commercial value of the crop was $74,000,000. This is almost equal to the value of all the gold, silver and lead mined in the United States in 1887, which was worth $87,535,000. Corn is our greatest crop. It makes hogs and cattle and…
February 22, 2024

Hometown History: February 22, 2024

40 Years Ago The computer is going to summer camp. James LeMonn, a spokesman for the American Camping Association said his organization’s “Parents Guide” for 1984 lists 180 camps with computer instruction programs. The fad started about two years ago, he said. “We view it as a temporary phenomenon,” LeMonn said. He pointed out that camps providing foreign language classes were very popular in the 1950s. When schools started including more complete language programs, the camps faded. He predicts the…
February 22, 2024

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