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FILEThis advertisement appeared in The Oneonta Star of Jan. 1, 1921. Advice given to us for the New Year of 2021 was to limit or avoid gatherings and not to travel. One hundred years ago, no advice like this was necessary, as it just happened to be fairly low key. According to The Oneonta Star of Jan. 1, 1921, “Oneonta ushered in 1921 very quietly, the only noise emanating from the direction of the D. & H. railroad, where locomotives joined the shop in welcoming the new arrival. Most of th...

Dec 17, 2020 Courtesy of CADENear the barn in this undated photo is Serkan Cambudak of Catskill Processing in Sidney Center. Cambudak has been producing and processing livestock since 2002. Thirty years ago, Otsego County had nearly 400 working dairy farms. In 2019, that number had dwindled to 66. Those numbers are according to CADE, the Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship, an organization that was formed 30 years ago to address this problem of decline and create new agricu...

Big Chuck The City of Oneonta historian, Mark Simonson, came on my show this morning for his monthly visit and we set the "Wayback Machine" to May, 1956.  During our discussion we unearthed a BIG mystery about the Unadilla Diner.  Something doesnt sound right to me, so take a… Here is another video that a listener just sent me.  It is quite good.  The focus is all of Upstate New York mostly and the photos are great.  Gotta love the music too, Billy Joels "New York State of Mind."  It is...

Big Chuck Says: “Help Me Solve a Local Mystery!!” The City of Oneonta historian, Mark Simonson, came on my show this morning for his monthly visit and we set the "Wayback Machine" to May, 1956.  During our discussion we unearthed a BIG mystery about the Unadilla Diner.  Something doesnt sound right to me, so take a listen and please SOLVE THIS MYSTERY FOR ME! Comments

Dec 15, 2020 Mark SimonsonShown in October, this is the current Moose Lodge at 20 E. Main St. in Sidney. The Loyal Order of Moose was instituted in Sidney in mid-December 1920. A beginning for the Moose, a new parochial home, remembering an aviation icon’s visit and basketball woes were all a part of the local life and times around Sidney in December 1920. A NEW ‘HERD’ OF MOOSE “S.J. Smith, Deputy Supervisor, of Glens Falls, has been in Sidney the past few days, and as a res...