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From Enterprise archives, 100 years ago.

 

Sheridan Monument to Be Dedicated Saturday, October 7th.

Bill Donato, Altamont

Sandra L. Kisselback, Berne Historical Society

Nancy Frueh, vice president, Knox Historical Society

VOORHEESVILLE.

—The members of the Bay View club and their friends enjoyed a corn roast Saturday evening.

—Remember the dance tomorrow (Saturday) night. O’Neil’s famous banjo orchestra will play.

Historical markers are guideposts to our past, bringing attention to local history that is rarely recognized outside of school.

A woman who gave her whole hearted support to female athletics at Berne-Knox-Westerlo is to be honored posthumously at the second annual induction ceremony of the BKW High School Athletic Hall of Fame next Thursday.

Artifacts were hard to come by in creating an exhibit of the Altamont Free Library’s 100-year history because it moved so often. So exhibit's curator relied on text.

The Guilderland Town Historian first learned that a man had already painted 22 markers when she saw a photo of him posing before a half-painted sign in The Enterprise.

“Bells for Burls” is a campaign to bring a carillon to St. John’s Church in Altamont, honoring Mark “Burls” Burlingame who listened to the music as he lay dying.

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