Step back in time features news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.
25 years ago
Feb. 3, 1987
LAURENS _ Members of the Laurens Central School board will consider ways to expand the school, including an addition and a new building at a meeting Thursday.
A steady growth in the district's elementary classes, the addition of a handicapped class, the deterioration of portable classrooms and repairs needed on the main buildings have made for cramped conditions.
The school needs at least six more classrooms, five for elementary grades and one home economics room, according to Superintendent Jeffrey Hahn. The building, built in 1929, also needs repairs and the gymnasium could use a new stage and expansion to accommodate a regulation-size basketball court and more spectators, Hahn said. The building also has to be made more accessible to the handicapped, he said.
A board decision may come sometime in March with a public vote in May, Hahn said, but added, "we're not going to rush through anything."
50 years ago
Feb. 3, 1987
Apparently it will be some time before you can leave unwashed milk bottles on your door step ... and not be fined because you broke a law.
Seriously, though, those archaic laws on the books in Oneonta will be there for some time to come.
And the situation is ironic. Ironic because almost every city official _ past and present _ has championed the "cause of recodification," while action has been delayed.
The move to get the "hodge podge" of city ordinances in a rational up-to-date code was activated by Alderman Francis Feeney two years ago.
Most city officials are vociferous in their claims that the "out-dated" ordinances should be modernized.
Paradoxically some view the proposed charter revision with a jaundiced eye.
While it is correct to bring the ordinances up to date many are hesitant to "bring the charter up to date."
