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A roaring fire leveled the Hillcrest Skating Rink in Sidney over night.  The skating rink, an iconic business which has served five generations of Sidney skaters since the 1920s, was totally destroyed by the blaze.  Fire department units from more than a half dozen surrounding communities responded to aid the Sidney Fire Department. ...

In going through a bunch of my Dad's old things I came upon several of these old 'license plates."  I vaguely remember them, maybe from the early 1960s. But what are they?  Clearly they are not official license plates, but they obviously were meant to go on an automobile...

I took a ride through my hometown of Sidney, N.Y. yesterday to see how things are coming along at the new Amphenol plant.  Take a look at this video.  It is pretty amazing!

My grandfather, Joseph "Pop" Cody, was a policeman in New York City for decades when he retired and moved to Sidney during the early 1940s to raise his family.  His daughter, Kate, is my mother. Pop took retirement restlessly and when he came to Sidney he soon found work as a guard at the big Scintilla (now Amphenol) factory.  W...

Christmas traditions are wonderful.  You probably agree.  So many times these traditions reside in the hearts and minds of our elders.  I can completely understand that, and the younger ones in a family live and learn and are responsible for carrying these forward to the next generations...

We all know what happened to the "big egg" in Sidney's basket over the last few years. Allied Amphenol (once known as Bendix and even longer ago, Scintilla) barely survived two devastating floods which almost drove the century-year old aerospace factory from upstate New York...

New York State Police Superintendent, Joseph A. D'Amico, has assigned Major Donald M. Faughnan to the position of Troop C Commander at Troop C Headquarters in Sidney.

Residents of Sidney are invited to a meeting to learn about the community's plan to rebuild from flooding and to prevent flood problems in the future.

Andrew Van Woert Strait was born in West Oneonta on May 12, 1849.  The cemetery in West Oneonta bears his family's name. He was a clock and watch maker.  Eventually he moved to Bainbridge and then Sidney.  He opened up a factory on Cartwright Avenue in Sidney and proceeded to manufacture the famous Sidney Clocks...

Whit Whitaker and his wife, Rosemary, are seen in the above photograph at the site of the new "Whitaker Way" road sign (Sidney mayor Andy Matviak is on the left).  The sign is at the location of, and honors the legendary car dealership owned by several generations of Whit's family on Main Street in Sidney...