Columns – All Otsego

Advertisement

Columns

///

News from the Noteworthy: CANO Expands Summer Program for Kids, Teens

News from the Noteworthy from the Community Arts Network of Oneonta CANO Expands Summer Program for Kids, Teens Founded 55 years ago, the Community Arts Network of Oneonta provides arts education, cultural presentations, and community events to residents and visitors in the region while supporting artists in the greater Oneonta area. The organization has undergone many transformations as it seeks to best meet the area’s current needs. The Summer Arts Program for Kids and Teens has grown each year since…

///

The Partial Observer: The Recession of Reporting

I began with an extensive multi-month-long period of research and data collection. This entailed delving into the characters and technologies that defined the evolution of journalism as a whole since roughly the Spanish American War. From yellow journalism, to the advent of television, to the breakdown of ethics as we approach today, I gained immense swaths of knowledge that I was previously unaware of.…

Bound Volumes: March 20, 2025

135 YEARS AGO: The Fly Creek M.E. Church under the pastorate of Rev. J.S. Southworth has been enjoying a year of prosperity unsurpassed in its history. The church property has been greatly improved and beautified, and the spacious auditorium is filled from Sabbath to Sabbath with an intelligent and devout people whose aim is to worship God in the beauty of holiness. During the year there have been one hundred added to the church on probation, and some fifteen taken…

Hometown History: March 20, 2025

135 YEARS AGO: One curious effect of the mild weather of the past three months has been to “obliterate,” in the minds of many, the idea of winter. People are often heard speaking of “last fall,” when further inquiry develops the fact that January is meant. So, too, events of February are referred to as spring. There has been no true Boreal weather and the mind unconsciously has adapted itself to the fact. What the next few weeks may bring…

Bound Volumes: March 13, 2025

110 YEARS AGO: It has been rumored about the village for several days that Allen Gallup was running for Village President. It was a mistake—he was galloping. When the votes were counted on Tuesday, it was found that Mr. Gallup has been elected by a majority of 142 over W. Dean Burditt, who was running for the third time. In 1913, Mr. Burditt’s majority was 202 and in 1914 it was 114. This tremendous turning of the tide is proof…

Hometown History: March 13, 2025

110 YEARS AGO: It has been rumored about the village for several days that Allen Gallup was running for Village President. It was a mistake—he was galloping. When the votes were counted on Tuesday, it was found that Mr. Gallup has been elected by a majority of 142 over W. Dean Burditt, who was running for the third time. In 1913, Mr. Burditt’s majority was 202 and in 1914 it was 114. This tremendous turning of the tide is proof…

1 2 3 … 124