Financial Organization Is the Best Gift Now is the time of year when many of us start thinking about what we are going to give our loved ones this holiday season. Preparing an organized reference document outlining your personal financial life might be the best gift you ever give, and after reading this article you will be well on your way to doing just that.…
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You can watch “The Imaginary Invalid” in the Fine Arts Center’s Hamblin Theater on SUNY O’s campus September 29 and 30 (Friday and Saturday) at 7:30 p.m., October 1 (Sunday) at 2 p.m. or October 3 and 4 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. for $6.00 general admission or free with a SUNY Oneonta ID (one person).…
For the fastest way to get to the best, most cost effective, informed, and supportable determination of strategies to address the City of Oneonta’s problems and promise, we need a new paradigm of community participation.…
For all of the proselytizing by state politicians and downstate activists, we are going backward. Since the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act became state law in 2019, New York’s reliance on fossil fuels for electricity has jumped by a third.…
Bound Volumes September 21, 2023 85 YEARS AGOApplication for a WPA Project for the improvement of Doubleday Field was authorized at the regular meeting of the Village Board of Trustees. Mayor Theodore R. Lettis executed the necessary papers. The application provides both for the work incident to the enlargement of the field through the purchase of additional property made possible through the generosity of Mr. Stephen C. Clark, and the erection of a new grandstand according to plans recently approved…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History September 21, 2023 90 Years AgoGuiding Your Child by Alice Clarissa Richmond: Mildred is 16 and looks old for her age. The other day she drove 40 miles or more, alone in her car, to call on a boy whom she had met a few weeks before. Her father, who would not have approved of her escapade, was out when she made her getaway. According to her mother, he is too strict and old-fashioned, so Mildred…
"Smoking kills, on average, 1,200 Americans. Every day.” This is one of 17 new signs, known as “corrective statements,” that are being posted next to cigarette displays in tobacco retailers throughout Otsego County, a result of a December 2022 federal court order.…
Life Sketches by Terry Berkson Forever Young: The ‘Home Farm’ Family Dance Goes On For several years, up until 2019 when COVID cut in, my wife Alice and I attended an August square dance on the sprawling Young “Home Farm,” just outside of the village of Van Hornsville, New York. It was a family affair but, by way of a close friend, we were invited to participate. The dance was held in the carriage house, one of the original farm…
Bound Volumes September 14, 2023 110 YEARS AGOThe Otesaga Hotel is entertaining this week what is probably the most representative, if not the largest gathering in the history of the hotel. The members of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies of America are here with their families to the number of about four hundred. The visitors come from all over the United States. The men are holding daily business sessions in the ball room while the ladies are amusing themselves…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History September 14, 2023 40 Years AgoThe city’s new Wilber Park pool created a big splash in its first season of use and made it through the summer with just a few minor problems, Assistant City Engineer Bruno Bruni said. “The main pool held up fine,” Bruni said, adding, “The wading pool was the one that gave us the most problems.” The wading pool was closed twice because of a broken part in the filtration system and…