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Compromise in the late 1700s moved a new nation forward. We could learn from that example now — on both a national and local level. Where is the domestic tranquility, where is the promotion of the general welfare, where are the blessings of liberty today that the Constitution set out to secure?

RENSSELAERVILLE. 

Clinton Wood caught an eel in the mill dam which weighed eight pounds and was four feet long. 

 

WEST MEADOWDALE. 

The Altamont Board of Trustees voted this week to solicit bids for the demolition of the Doctor Frederick Crounse House.

THOMPSON’S LAKE. 

VILLAGE NOTES. 

Alice Cathleen Begley

GUILDERLAND — The wallpaper in Alice Begley’s bedroom — in the house on Patricia Lane in Westmere where she lived for 63 years — had the poems of Emily Dickinson:

A WORD is dead

When it is said,

Some say.

I say it just

Begins to live

That day.

News in the 1880s and ’90s that a traveling circus was stopping in town created an air of anticipation and excitement among all ages.

The Warners Lake Improvement Association, which stewards Warner Lake, in Berne, is taking steps to have the name adjusted by the United States Board on Geographic Names to reflect local preference for Warners Lake.

The Underground Railroad Education Center’s annual July 4th Oration, commemorating Frederick Douglass’s address “What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July?” will be presented virtually for the first time this year.

Joel Willsey​, Berne

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