Franklin News

Eleanor and Franklin relax at home in Hyde Park, N.Y., in August 1933. She preferred her retreat at nearby Val-Kill. AP When Eleanor Roosevelt learned that her husband was going to run for President in 1932, she fell into a deep depression.

The area forecast for the Fourth of July weekend is for showers and fireworks. In Oneonta, the 17th annual Hometown Fourth of July Celebration will be Saturday, with activities in Neahwa Park starting at noon and fireworks set off at dusk.

Heavy rain, high winds and hail struck throughout the area Thursday and led to reports of minor flooding.

UPDATE: Delaware and Otsego counties are under a flash-flood warning until 10 p.m. At 7:45 p.m., according to the National Weather Service, law enforcement reported flash flooding in the Otego area, as 3-5 inches of rain has fallen in the Oneonta, Otego, Franklin and North Franklin areas.

The Franklin Stage Company will open its 13th season of theater when it presents the J.B. Priestley drama, "An Inspector Calls," from July 1-19. The play, which has seen a recent revival in New York and London, will be presented 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 5 p.m. Sundays.

A fire that gutted a vacant Meridale house Friday morning is being investigated as suspicious in origin, a Delaware County fire official said.

Participants were able to tour places, including Quality Hardwoods, which uses wood chips for its steam boiler; Enviro Energy LLC, where fuel pellets are produced from grass; Flying Rabbit Farm, which uses grass pellets; and Franklin Town Garage, where a CCE green biomass energy project uses grass pellets to power a stove and boiler furnace.

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The cause of a fire that heavily damaged a vacant three-story house in the village of Delhi is being treated as suspicious, said county fire investigator James Olmstead.

In the latest of a disturbing series of cemetery vandalism over the last decade, two Walton teens were charged Sunday with desecrating a marble gravestone at the Walton Cemetery.

There is - as we established in this week's Q&A with the writer - a never-ending deluge of name-dropping in Chandler Burr's debut novel, You or Someone Like You , which must have required research as prodigious as anything Harold Bloom ever conducted.

Saving money on heating and utility costs in environmentally friendly ways is the focus of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County's 28th annual Spring Housing tour on Saturday.

Local car aficionados said they were hopeful that General Motors will get back on its feet.

As it turned out, the defendant's own conduct since that plea has put him behind bars for a much-longer sentence.

Road repairs will be under way on Interstate 88 eastbound between exit 11 for Franklin and Unadilla and exit 12 for Otego beginning at 7 a.m. today, the state Department of Transportation announced in a media release.

Maintenance workers are scrubbing down three public schools in New York City that were closed because of a swine flu outbreak.

The Oneonta Rotary and Kiwanis clubs have traditionally done some outstanding work to benefit our community.

DELHI _ Lying to his probation officer about the details of his crimes earned a former Franklin substitute teacher a longer sentence Thursday in Delaware County Court.

The sons of a critically ill New York City school official diagnosed with swine flu say their father has been on a breathing tube and is barely able to talk to his family.