Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.
25 years ago
June 30, 1984
WELLS BRIDGE _ The 100th anniversary of the Unadilla Fire Department was marked during the Otsego County firemen's convention Friday at Unatego Junior-Senior High School.
The department traces its beginnings to Samuel S. North, a banker, whose business was burned in an 1879 fire. North purchased uniforms and built a firehouse on Clifton Street in 1884.
Two more fire companies, the H.Y. Canfield Co. and the Unadilla Hook and Ladder Co. formed in 1891 and 1892, respectively. The two merged in 1900. In 1950, a new firehouse was built on its present Clifton Street location and the company became known as the Unadilla Fire Department.
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50 years ago
June 30, 1959
The 9303rd Air Reserve Squadron, located at 395 Main St., has announced that the following reservists have taken short tours of active duty in the past month.
T/Sgt. Stanley Eldred and S/Sgt. Frank Bell, both of Oneonta, performed their active duty at Pease AFB, N.H., and Dow AFB, Maine, respectively.
T/Sgt. Robert Weidman of Walton also reported there and S/Sgt. George Cleaver, also a Waltonite, spent his 15 days at Rome AFB.
A/1C Alfred Grass of West Oneonta is currently attending an Air Force technical school at Amarillo, Texas. He is enrolled in a supply course.
The squadron also announced the promotion of Claudio Rebello to the grade of staff sergeant and the reenlistment of S/Sgts. Robert Weidman and Carroll Tweedie, both of Walton, for a three-year period. They will both remain assigned to the Oneonta sqadron.
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