The charity fan drive at Westlake Ace Hardware, Susquehanna ADK hikes for the month of June and dates for the Helios Care Camp Forget-Me-Not grief counseling camps are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
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05-28-26 - Page 2
The League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area, with over a dozen local sponsors, is set to host a book talk with the author of “Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement,” Elaine Weiss, on Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m. The event will be held at the Village Hall Ballroom, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown.…
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.”…
I believe our federal government’s moves to reduce Medicare and Medicaid fraud by cutting payments to states with unacceptably high error rates are efforts we could all support—if only everyone in the administration shared that goal.…
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.…
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.…
CIVIL RIGHTS—7 p.m. An Evening with Elaine Weiss, author of “Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built The Civil Rights Movement,” in conversation with Gretchen Sorin, author of “Driving While Black.” Free and open to the public. Village Hall Ballroom, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1436475428520247&set=a.557428283091637…
