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02-27-25
With great sorrow, we share the news that our family matriarch, Dorothea “Dorle” Sittler, has passed away at the age of 100 years. Her death, on February 23, 2025, at the Cooperstown Center was peaceful, and we thank the center and Helios Care for their kind attendance to Dorothea in her last days.…
160 YEARS AGO: After the War—The great end and aim of our policy in dealing with the population of the revolted States ought to be the removal of all traces of the struggle from their memory. Nothing that reminds them of their defeat, and is not absolutely necessary for the safety of the Government, ought to be retained either in our legislation, or our policy. Slavery, which it is generally agreed, was the cause of the war, and which would…
90 YEARS AGO: Academic freedom was defined today for 2,500 of the nation’s educators as “the freedom of the learner to learn, not the freedom of the teacher to teach.” The educators debated the role of public education in the present changing social world. The advocacy of new social doctrines in the class room was vigorously attacked by Frank W. Ballou, Superintendent of Schools for Washington, D.C. “Teachers should confine themselves to giving pupils a clear idea of the existing…
FILM—7 p.m. “North to Freedom.” Free. The Loft at Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta. (607) 431-2080 or https://www.foothillspac.org/…