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The Shakespeare Club of Whitney Point has been reading and discussing the Bard's works together for 100 years, making it through war and pandemic.

UHS proposed a Binghamton open-heart surgery unit in 1981, but the first procedure wasn't done until 1989. There was some resistance to it.

Even former Broome County Historian Gerald Smith was stumped by a question about Pine Camp. See what he found out about this camp in Kirkwood.

View Comments Recently, I was watching a news story about the efforts to restore and rebuild Notre Dame in Paris.  It has been two years since the devastating fire that brought down the spire and much of the roof of that landmark. No matter what your beliefs, that edifice, which is one of the best examples of French Gothic architecture, has portions that date back 850 years. Its use of a flying buttress and vault system is a wonderful example from the Renaissance, and the importance of this church is to not only Paris, but the world. That fire nearly destroyed this centuries-old religious...

Many of us remember that famous phrase: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s what? No, the last part was not what, but Superman.  In this instance, it’s not Superman, but something else from outer space that happened over the skies of Binghamton in November 1897. An incident occurred that was not just reported in the local newspapers, but the ethereal observance was reported in newspapers in major cities, including’s New York City’s The World. As the headlines ran on Nov. 21, 1897, “Is This Meteor a Message from Far Away Mars? A Blazing Aerolite Falls from the Skies at Binghamt...