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Joanne O'Connor Special to The Citizen Proudly wearing his Civil War uniform, Billy Claxton (1843-1923), the "Hermit of Owasco Lake," is pictured above in front of his Koenig’s Point ocean house. Billy was born on Jan. 10, 1843, in Hastings, New York. In 1860, with his mother, Mary Ann, and sister Hannah, he moved from the Lake Ontario area to Mandana. Here they lived with their relative Alexander Hamilton Allen, who with his Revolutionary War tract of land, had built a tavern-inn. That site became today’s Mandana Inn. Along the west side of Skaneateles Lake, the Claxton...

Backed by a new crime-fighting attorney general, who campaigned on a pledge to clean up Galveston, the Texas Rangers finally got their wish and padlocked the Balinese Room on May 30, 1957. The combination...

The Food and Drug Administration’s announcement of a ban on menthol cigarettes birthed one the strangest political alliances of recent memory. Civil rights and social justice groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union align with law enforcement organizations, libertarians and conservatives in criticizing the bid to enact one of the most significant prohibitions in decades. For now, litigation from pressure groups has put enough pressure on the FDA to advance a policy that was explicitly rejected by the Obama administration a little more than a decade ago. The rationale for prohib...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Coast Guard Patrol Boat Marion prepares to set sail from Boston on a scientific expedition to waters between Labrador and Greenland, July 11, 1928. (U.S. Coast Guard file photo) Coast Guard involved in Prohibition, wars during its history By U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs The Coast Guard’s history dates as far back as the first lighthouse built in America in 1716 at Little Brewster Island, Boston, Massachusetts. Though the Navy and Marines were founded in 1775, the predecessor to today’s Coast Guard, the Revenue Service, came into being Aug. 4, 1790, when Pre...