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Step Back in Time features community news from The Daily Star 25 and/or 50 years ago.

The first Baghdad Boilermaker started with two Airmen from New York who just wanted to run the country's largest 15-kilometer race.

Charles J. Armstrong, Ursil A. Ferguson and John M. Hopkins had to be a bit relieved in August 1917, after the Otsego County Board of Supervisors approved some lengthy work they had done in recent months.

ONEONTA _ Fourth of July festivities in Neahwa Park provided the setting for a wedding ceremony.

ONEONTA _ Sunny skies were a welcome change for this year's Independence Day festivities in Neahwa Park, a couple of those at the event said Friday afternoon.

Every time the hydra of ignorance rears its many heads I feel compelled to make an attempt to correct it; and never so passionately as after finishing William Eckardt's letter.

Called teaching to the test, such curriculums may indeed be better, but we're not sure how to know their ultimate impact on students until years down the road.

LAURENS _ State police returned to the Arbas farm in Laurens on Wednesday with a search warrant.

A better school curriculum and greater familiarity with the exams are two reasons cited by area educators for improving scores on state standardized testing.

A 22-year-old New York City man and a 57-year-old Laurens woman were arrested on felony cocaine possession charges Monday.

Step Back in Time features community news from The Daily Star 25 and/or 50 years ago.

Tim Sullivan had vacillated about his high school prom. First, he said he'd be there, then he changed his mind.

Girls On The Run Otsego County will host its sixth annual family one-mile walk and 5K run/walk/trot for the community at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown.

Twenty years or more from now, either myself or a successor will likely recall the outcome in the battle over the proposed New York Regional Interconnect power-line project, designed to deliver cheaper ...

The CROP program run by the Otsego-Northern Catskills Board of Cooperative Educational Services has received funding for 12 participating schools, according to a media release.

The good news, such as it was: The price of a gallon of gas the downtown Oneonta Hess station didn't reach $4 by Memorial Day.

Vandals show lack of respect I was just informed of a sad situation. The family plot of my father, Robert White, in the Davenport Cemetery was vandalized recently.

The Memorial Day weekend forecast in the Otsego and Delaware area is for a mix of sunshine and showers, a slower canoe race on the Susquehanna River and less traffic as gasoline reaches record prices of more ...

The Laurens Central School District budget proposal calls for a 2 percent increase in the tax levy, Superintendent Romona Wenck said Wednesday.

“It doesn't show the effort that has been made to keep costs down”

Area schools are increasing spending at a rate higher than the state average, according to a recent analysis of local school budgets by a state watchdog group. via The Daily Star