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Hometown History: December 25, 2025

110 YEARS AGO: Christmas Day—The greatest photo-dramatic production ever seen on the screen will be the attraction at the Oneonta Theatre on Christmas Day when Geraldine Farrar, the celebrated operatic prima donna will appear in a film version of her famous opera “Carmen,” produced by the James L. Lasky Company.…
December 25, 2025

Bound Volumes: November 6, 2025

185 YEARS AGO: Died in this village of consumption, on the evening of the 24th, ultimo, Mrs. Phebe Tracy, widow of Mr. Elisha Tracy, in the 50th year of her age. She has long been a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and eminently adorned her profession with those Christian graces enumerated by the Apostle, among which patience and meekness shone with peculiar luster.…
November 6, 2025

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$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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