The introduction of a minimum wage at the end of the Great Depression was largely a success, but the verdict in more recent times is more mixed. Let’s look at some of the key developments concerning today’s minimum wage.…
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With visitor spending continuously on the rise, Otsego County generated more than $37 million in state and local taxes in 2022. This total includes food and beverage, lodging, retail, transportation, and other forms of recreation, including events.…
90 YEARS AGO
Operations at the test well on the farm of Merritt Hazlett, about two miles from Treadwell on the road to Franklin, have been abandoned for the time being. Though a few small pockets of gas were struck, the flow was not sufficient to be of commercial value. The outside casing of the well is being left in place, with a block closing the opening. Ralph Sawyer of Bolivar, contractor in charge of drilling, explained that the apparatus in…
185 YEARS AGO
The history of all governments exhibits the struggles of two great parties—one rallying under the banner of the rights of property, the other under those of persons. The one will strive as a matter of course, to resolve the whole system into an extension of the rights of property so as to swallow up and annihilate those of persons. The latter will stand on the defensive and do all that is in its power to preserve and defend…
Thanks to my daughters, Tara and Kerry, my Doberman, Michelle, never left the house without all her feet beautifully adorned with nail polish.…
In this instance, Telemann has produced his own musical novel. Telemann chooses, however, the errant side of Don Quixote, as an old and crazy man. There was nothing errant about the performance presented by Maestro Maciej Żołtówski, conducting from the harpsichord, and the orchestra. The title of the movements, provided by Telemann himself, were easily evident and, especially in the case of the windmills, given loving and charming nuance.…
Actually, a Fourth of July picnic in the park with family, friends and neighbors presents the perfect scenario to think about all the ways we use chemical potential energy without even thinking about it. On a deeper level, the bonds we chemically make or break—and maybe make again—are reflected in the bonds we create or destroy with other people, locally and nationally.…
110 YEARS AGO
A suffrage meeting was organized last week by Miss Anna Constable of New York who is the guest of Mrs. Walter Watson Stokes at the Crooked Cottage. Miss Constable, who is prominent in New York as a member of the Woman’s Political Union is an ardent suffragist and has secured many faithful followers through her plausible reasons in regard to the question of the ballot as a means of freedom, advancement and political purity to the country. Through…
110 Years Ago
Local News—A shirt waist dance for the members of the Oneonta Country Club will be held at the club house Saturday night, July 4, from 8 to 11 o’clock. A late car from Hartwick will stop at the club grounds at 10:15 p.m. in order that members who do not happen to be motor car owners can return to the city after the dance.
The Otsego & Herkimer trolley company will run an excursion from Oneonta to Canadarago Park…
Celebrating with limited or no alcohol is one of the ways to help keep your guests the safest; both during the gathering, as well as on their way home!…