85 YEARS AGO
Cooperstown winter sports fans enjoyed the first favorable weather conditions of the season and several hundred made use of the new ski tow on Drake Mountain. The new tow is sponsored by the Cooperstown Winter Sports Association. The site is about six miles from Cooperstown and about one mile north of the Pierstown Grange Hall. The tow has a pull up the side of the mountain about a quarter mile in length and is operated by a tractor.…
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90 YEARS AGO
Prices at Terpening’s Grocery & Market—Phone 1250—Free Deliveries: Fresh killed chickens, 23 cents lb.; 2 lbs. liver, 25 cents; Homemade veal loaf, 25 cents lb.; Beef roast, 10 cents and 18 cents lb.; Veal chops, 15 cents lb.; Breast of veal, 8 cents lb.; 2 cans peas or succotash, 29 cents; 2 pounds confectionary sugar, 15 cents; 4 cans baked beans, 25 cents; Fresh coffee, 21 cents lb.; 3 bottles olives, 29 cents; 2 large cans peaches, 29…
This is a small holiday offering, a way to remember all that we have been and still can be if we keep our eyes focused on the best things and allow the petty to slip away.…
135 YEARS AGO
Local—Mr. E.F. Beadle has been in town for a few days looking after the finishing of his new cottage. He has also purchased of J. H. Kelley the Coburn house and lot, and will have possession the first of April, when he will put mechanics at work enlarging and modernizing the building, to be on a par with his other cottages on Pine Street—a street that through the enterprise of Mr. Beadle has become one of the finest…
70 YEARS AGO
In near-zero weather an eight-month-old German police dog last night blockaded a business building for an hour, driving off all comers with warning growls and flashing teeth. The dog held the line in front of Chrisler Tire & Battery Co., 9 Elm Street, until his master found him via phoned appeals to police. The case began at 7:29 p.m. when Hugh Moore, 31 Main Street phoned Sergeant James Fawcett that his silver and black German shepherd dog was…
As a regional bird conservation organization, the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society works to engage people in our communities in learning about birds and connecting to nature through our programming.…
We take up federal government spending in this column, but we’ll stay away from what it buys. Our myth busting will instead clarify the relationship between federal spending and budget deficits, and show where the deficits came from.…
Though there is no direct English translation of the phrase, “auld lang syne,” it roughly translates to “times long past” or “days gone by.”…
Mezzo-soprano Joanna Porackova has performed on concert and opera stages all over the world. Her voice is rich, full, and expressive, and her rendition of two arias from Handel’s “Messiah” were enthusiastically received.…
160 YEARS AGO
Standing on the threshold of a New Year, the mind naturally turns to a contemplation of the stirring events which marked the outgoing of the late Administration, and which have distinguished that of the present. The civil war which now devastates the land actually commenced in January 1861, when the rebels fired upon the vessel sent to provision and reinforce the little garrison in Fort Sumpter—now a heap of ruins. The early leaders in this wicked rebellion no…
