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March 8, 2010

Anonymous The Daily Star Mon Mar 08, 2010, 08:56 AM EST

Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.

25 YEARS AGO

March 8, 1985

A Utica secretarial school plans to open a satellite office in Oneonta by next September in response to a local call for better training opportunities for office workers.

The Utica School of Commerce, a two-year businesses school that offers associate degrees in office skill areas, has plans to offer a one-year diploma in the city.

Barbara Hess, a training coordinator for the Otsego County Job Training office, said officials from the school asked her office to determine if the secretarial and business program was needed in this area. She said the school will develop a program to meet the needs of employees in the area, who indicated that there is a shortage of properly trained office workers in the job market.

Robert Whittemore, chamber general manager, said the officials have narrowed their search for space down to about six sites. He said they plan to open several classrooms in 1,500 to 2,000 square feet of space. He said the program will employ about 20 to 25 parttime teachers and a small full-time office staff. The school, founded in Utica, in 1896, is accredited by the state Education Department.

50 YEARS AGO

March 8, 1960

HOBART _ The long established firm of E. L. Foote & Son, Hobart, is going out of business.

The firm announced yesterday that its extensive holdings in Hobart will be sold March 28, 29 and 30. The auction will include a horse farm, commercial buildings and several other parcels of real estate. The Charles Vosburgh organization will also sell the complete holdings of the machinery business, which consists of new and used farm equipment, and 95 cattle, horses and show equipment.

Mr. Vosburgh said that this auction will be one of the largest he has ever held in Delaware County.

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Josie Giuseppa Basile will speak about her book "A Gift of My Own: A Journey into the Spiritual Realm of Reality" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Body, Mind, Spirit meeting at the First United Methodist Church on the corner of Church and Chestnut street, upstairs in the Main Meeting room, in Oneonta.

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