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Backtracking: In Our Times: Ripken impresses with numbers in Cooperstown, Oneonta (opens the original)
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Cal Ripken Jr. played baseball for a very long time. Your city historian has been writing regular columns for a very long time, as well. Your writer never played a professional baseball game. Nor did Ripken write history columns. He made a lot of history, though. Oneonta City Historian Mark Simonson’s column appears twice weekly. On Saturdays, his column focuses on the area before 1950. His Tuesday columns address local history 1950 and later. If you have feedback or ideas about the column, writ
The Wall That Heals set to return to Oneonta (opens the original)
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Ask just about any Vietnam veteran, locally or nationally, who came back after the war in the mid-1970s, and theyâll likely tell you their welcome home was not a warm one. Decades later, there have been some changes in attitudes about the divisiveness over the Vietnam War, and the healing continues. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles.
MASTER Backtracking: The Early Years: Business beat locally was indeed busy in the summer of 1926 (opens the original)
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If it involved parking, brickwork, making barrels, weaving silk or laundry, it was making business news around Oneonta in 1926. In this writerâs lifetime, it doesnât appear as if anyone has ever been fully satisfied with parking in downtown Oneonta. The same was likely 100 years ago. Oneonta City Historian Mark Simonson’s column appears twice weekly. On Saturdays, his column focuses on the area before 1950. His Tuesday columns address local history 1950 and later. If you have feedback or ide
Backtracking: The Early Years: Many things made, created locally in September 1926 (opens the original)
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Whether it was using stitches, through digging, or various transactions, several things were made around our region during the early fall of 1926. Itâs a much forgotten industry in Oneonta, but at one time, shirts were made in our city. As The Oneonta Star of Sept. 11, 1926 reported, âIt is a demure looking little machine, about the size of an ordinary sewing machine, that is the center of the window featuring Ide products, shirts, collars, handkerchiefs, and athletic underwear at the Oneont
Backtracking: In Our Times: National wage-price freezes got local reactions in August 1971 (opens the original)
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Present-day readers have something much in common with those in the summer of 1971; blink, and the price of something surges upward. While many wish something could be done to halt the 2026 hikes, some will likely remember that someone tried in 1971 and the results were mixed and the local comments were many. Oneonta City Historian Mark Simonson’s column appears twice weekly. On Saturdays, his column focuses on the area before 1950. His Tuesday columns address local history 1950 and later. If yo
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