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This Week: 05-09-24

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 9, 2024 Front Page Brookwood Launch Relocation Questioned by OLT Neighbors Clark Foundation Provides $6M to Support New Daycare Center LWV Announces School Board Candidates’ Debate on May 13 Wooden Volunteers at Adaptive Basketball Clinic Inside Cider Mill Preps for Its 168th Season Gilbertsville Art Gallery Will Host Summer Concert Series ‘The Buzz about Pollinators’ Opens May 11 at The Farmers’ Museum Music Festival Launches Its Season with Special Mother’s…

Bound Volumes: May 9, 2024

160 YEARS AGO
Excerpts from a letter penned by President Abraham Lincoln to A.G. Hodges of Frankfort, Kentucky dated April 4, 1864: “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best…

Hometown History: May 9, 2024

70 YEARS AGO
Having outgrown its home in Huntington Library, the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society is turning its eyes toward the city government hoping to get some sort of storage space for its growing volume of historical records. Dr. Edward J. Parish, president, has appointed a special committee to confer with the Common Council on a place for the records and historical objects. On the committee are Julian B. Jackson, Chester A. Miller, Harry C. Bard, Mrs. Earl P. Francis and…

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