Children across our state, our country, and the world are still at risk for dangerous diseases. There have been recent outbreaks of measles in New York State. Pertussis (whooping cough) cases are increasing significantly. Influenza remains a cause of hospitalization among infants and young children.…
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My lifelong relationship with Thoreau, Emerson, Robert Frost and a host of notable American authors and poets stems from those days in Bill’s classroom and on many of the walks that we would take, especially on warm, sunny days. His was an expansive grasp of American literature, as well as history.…
I was a late starter at deer hunting because I moved back to Brooklyn just before I turned 16. It was while in the Army and reading Hemingway and Faulkner that I got the bug to hunt whitetails on Panther Mountain with my old friend Gerard in Richfield Springs.…
In order to catch the very short run of most regional productions, it’s necessary to be vigilant. Get on a company’s e-mail list to notify you in advance of their schedule. Some productions may be as short as a one-night stand, or as fleeting as a flirtation from “Emily in Paris.”…
Downtown is the heartbeat of Oneonta. Every dollar spent at a local small business helps our community and is an investment in the future. While Market Street is getting its facelift, Main Street and the surrounding side streets still offer free parking.…
135 YEARS AGO: More on the Rev. C. Hudson Smith (who, had been pastor, 1883-1885, of the First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown): Some points deserve to be stated in order to set at rest rumors and conjectures that Mr. Smith may be still alive. The relatives and family friends accept fully the suicide as a fact, and this seems most plainly indicated by a simple circumstance. Mr. Smith was afflicted with astigmatic vision, requiring a peculiar form of lens. These were…
90 YEARS AGO: Inherited monkey characteristics are responsible for humankind’s widespread use of the telephone, radio, talking pictures, and similar inventions, Dr. Orestes Caldwell, engineer and editor, asserts. “Outstanding traits of the monkey tribe,” said Dr. Caldwell, “are love of chatter and overwhelming curiosity – traits which have carried our own evolution to its present level of civilization. Monkeys like to gather in the treetops and chatter. And today, their human descendants delight to gather in conventions, night clubs, legislatures…
Some 30 million Americans with rare diseases are waiting not only for medications that don't yet exist, but also for tests that show existing medications can also help them. Lawmakers need to get small molecule and orphan drug research back on track. For many of us, it can be a matter of life and death.…
How easy it is to take things for granted. And if we are not careful, we will deprive ourselves of the riches trees bring us. And during the hot summer day, walking along the street, the shade provided by a generous tree brings relief and renewed energy to continue.…