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This Week: 04-25-24

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 25, 2024 Front Page Bassett Head Answers Queries, Opens Up About Challenges Misty Morning Magic CANO Receives $5K Award Toward Juneteenth Celebration Coffee House Still Going Strong after Nine Years Inside Weaver Farm’s Market Celebrates Fifth Year with ‘Super Sale’ School, Boosters Announce CCS Hall of Fame Class of 2024 Business District Prepares for Coming Tourist Season Rush Softball, Baseball Seasons Start News Briefs News Briefs: April 25, 2024 Editorial…

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KEVLIN: Hello from Arizona and Jim Kevlin

News from the Noteworthy The importance of local news Hello from Arizona and Jim Kevlin A few days ago, the first edition of the Tempe Independent – Volume One, Edition One – showed up in the mailbox. Inside, I learned local Congressman Greg Stanton presented Tempe City Council with a $500,000 check to renovate the Rodeway Inn on Apache Boulevard to accommodate up to 200 of the city’s 380 homeless people. I learned miles-long Warner Boulevard, a major east-west road…

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Editorial: Local owners/local news

Editorial Local owners/local news The Freeman’s Journal, our village’s venerable newspaper of 213 years — and one of the oldest continually published weeklies in the country — has a long and complicated history, both of news and of ownership. It has chronicled the workings of our town and the opinions of our residents through the country’s wars, holidays, prohibitions and depressions, as well as through the state’s droughts, blizzards, elections, floods, tragedies, surprises and celebrations. The Freeman’s Journal is our…