HOMETOWN HISTORY September 3, 2020 150 Years Ago Oneonta and Area Items – Quoit pitching seems to be the popular game at the depot. Just received at the Crockery Store of J. B. Roberts, some fine plums and delicious grapes. The rain of Saturday night raised the brook on Dietz Street – the first it has run this summer. Our thanks is due to A.A. Whitcomb for a quantity of large tomatoes. A young man named John Bonfoy, who has…
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MAKE HISTORY • COMMENTARY State Championship Will Echo Through Boy’s Lifetimes, Ours By TOM HEITZ • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The date is uncertain. But it happened at the Clark Gymnasium in a building on Cooperstown’s Main Street a few years before the turn of the 20th Century. Someone propelled a large round ball into the cone of a metal hoop in the middle of the gym floor “to score a basket” for the first time.…