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03-05-26

This Week: 03-05-26

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 5, 2026 Front Page Town Board Splits on Data Center Moratorium; Habitat for Humanity Seeks Tax Relief Demonstrators Raise Chorus Against ICE, Sheriff’s Agreement Polar Bear Jump Breaks $200,000.00 Fund Milestone Inside Cooperstown Asylum Applicant Pedro Mieles Deported to Ecuador A Village for All Seasons: First Fridays, New Shops, Winter Fun Community Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Charitable Sock Hop Village Accepts $2.5M South End Bid, Passes Noise Law Changes Former…
March 5, 2026

Bound Volumes: March 5, 2026

210 YEARS AGO: (Reprinted from the Niagara Journal) Steam-Boats—Repeated experiments which have been made in this country and Europe appear to have established a confidence that steam boats, if properly constructed, can navigate the oceans in safety, even in the most tempestuous weather...…
March 5, 2026

Hometown History: March 5, 2026

135 YEARS AGO: The current number of the Hartwick Seminary Monthly contains public announcement of the fact that Rev. James Pitcher had formally tendered his resignation as principal of that institution. Professor Pitcher, who entered the school as pupil twenty-seven years ago, has been a member of the faculty for twenty years and principal for nineteen...…
March 5, 2026

Time Out Otsego: 03-05-26

LECTURE—6 p.m. “Pay Your Damn Taxes! Holding Corporations Accountable to the Public.” Leslie G. Rude Memorial Lecture, presented by New York State Senator James Skoufis. Free and open to the public. Celebration Room, Shineman Chapel House, Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Drive, Oneonta. (607) 353-9042 or https://www.hartwick.edu/academics/annual-celebrations-lectures/leslie-g-rude-lecture/…
March 4, 2026

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

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