Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide, 65 percent of them deliberately. According to the Public Health Law Center, that weighs 850,000 tons or about 30 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.…
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40 Years Ago
President Reagan has approved a series of measures, including pre-emptive strikes and reprisals designed to get the upper hand on terrorism worldwide, administration officials revealed. One of the key elements of the policy is an effort to switch from defensive action to offensive, partly by increasing the ability of U.S. operatives to gather intelligence in order to stop terrorist activities before they occur. While the U.S. government has been increasingly concerned with terrorism for several years, new impetus…
135 YEARS AGO
Three thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five immigrants reached Castle Garden yesterday. They were passengers on the six ocean steamers which reached port during the day. Of this number 200 were picked out as people likely to become public charges. The 200 may be sent back to Europe. And none of those steamers fly the stars and stripes. Republican policy has put the valuable ocean carrying business into the hands of foreigners.
April 19, 1889…
As a pioneering philosopher-mathematician in France, Émilie Du Châtelet argued, as Leibniz did, that a fundamental quantity of motion existed beyond the idea of momentum, which she called the force morte, “the dead force”...…
Today, research shows that our bird populations have declined by 2.9 billion birds between 1970 and 2018. The impacts expected in the future as a result of climate change pose a dire risk to many of our most common birds. We need to protect birds at home and also in the places where they winter, as well as important stopover sites in other countries along their flyways.…
A fundraiser on behalf of Guinevere Millea, upcoming library events, town news and a call for Memorial Day parade participation.…
210 YEARS AGO
Dispatch from Plattsburgh—A Spy Detected: At length, by redoubled vigilance, in spite of the defects of our own laws, the corruption of some of our citizens, and the arts and cunning of the enemy, one Spy, of the hundreds who roam at large over this frontier, has been detected, convicted, and sentenced to Death. He came from the enemy as a deserter, in the uniform of a British corps, had obtained a pass to go into the interior,…
135 Years Ago
The Local News—In excavating the cellar for the Bundy building, a Canadian Sou (coin) was found several feet below the surface. It was well preserved, and though bearing no date, must be very old. L.H. Blend has it.
The organ grinder, as genuine a harbinger of spring as the robin, made his appearance here on Wednesday. He was afterward arrested for cruelty to a boy in his company, but the justice discharged him.
Louise Arnot and company will begin a…
...the part of a dog's brain that discerns what the smells are is about 40 times larger than a human's, relatively speaking. It was Mark Twain who said, "If dogs could talk, no one would own them." So when you come home and your dog smells your pants, he knows where you were, who you touched and what you ate.…
The goal of the trail is to encourage more local residents to explore the river while also attracting visitors, including “444s,” a group of experienced paddlers who travel the entire length of the Susquehanna, from Otsego Lake to the Chesapeake Bay.…