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Oneida Nation Announces Employee of the Year

(Verona, NY) Ryan Langone of Rome, N.Y. was named the Oneida Nation’s Employee of the Year at a recognition dinner held March 4 in The Showroom at Turning Stone Resort. Langone was awarded a trip for two to one of the following vacation destinations: Disney World, Las Vegas or the Grand Canyon. To further demonstrate [...]

Madison County Courier To Be Used As Movie Prop

M3P Media, LLC, has signed a release for its new publication, Madison County Courier, to be used as prop or set dressing for the highly anticipated movie “Knockout.”
“We are thrilled to be a very small part of a very big movie,” said Mike Bova, publisher of M3P Media, LLC.
According to promoters, the film stars mixed martial [...]

North Bay Resident Named to HCCC Dean’s List

(Herkimer, NY) One hundred eighty-eight students have been named to the President’s List at Herkimer County Community College for the fall 2009 semester, and 395 students have been named to the Dean’s List. The distinction recognizes outstanding academic achievement.
The President’s List recognizes students who have earned a minimum 3.8 average on a 4.0 scale for [...]

United Way Celebration held today

(Utica, NY – Jan. 20, 2010) United Way invites the entire region to a community-wide celebration of the 2009 Campaign. The event will be held in the lobby of M &T Bank at 233 Genesee Street at 5:00 PM on Wednesday January 20. Attendees can park in the lot behind the building.
“This was a community-wide effort, [...]

Residents Post Reward after North Bay Burglaries

(North Bay, NY) For approximately nine months, the State Police in Sylvan Beach have been investigating a series of burglaries in the Hamlet of North Bay, in the Town of Vienna, Oneida County. Since the spring of 2009, numerous camps and residences along Lakeshore Drive, between State Route 13 and West Lake St., have been [...]

Murray Brook Frog – Rest in Peace

By Margo Frink
Caption: I tried to muster up a smile from Brandy when I took this photo. This is the best I could get out of her. It was taken at Durhamville Day in August of this year.
The world lost one great lady this week. Brandyann Phelps, town of Vienna historian, author of several books, reporter and [...]

The Frog on her way to recovery

(North Bay, NY) According to reliable sources The Murray Brook Frog was recently released from a hospital way down south in central Louisiana.
At this time she is resting well in her little red brick house, surrounded by her southern family and friends. The prognosis is good, however recovery may be slow.
To drop The Frog a [...]

The Murray Brook Frog: The House on the Hill

By Brandyann Phelps
Caption: Ola and Lola Annis were born in 1888 on West Lake Street in North Bay. Their mother, Mertie Auchard Annis born in 1857, was also a twin.
With the great advances in science multiple births have become a common occurrence. That wasn’t so in the early years, when medicine was precarious at best [...]

The Murray Brook Frog: Inventions – friend or foe?

By Brandyann Phelps
Caption: Pictured are two automobiles in North Bay around 1930; one is at the bottom of Lake Hill and the other is parked at Straders. I wonder … if we knew back then the disadvantages of an automobile, would we still have been so eager to produce them in such great numbers without [...]

The Murray Brook Frog: Plans Made to Restore Vienna Town Cemeteries

By Brandyann Phelps
Caption by John A. Kussmaul. This book contains 13 interesting and informative pages about Otto and Elsie Kussmaul, residents of North Bay until the early 1900s. You may read John’s words at the Town hall in North Bay, or by contacting the Murray Brook Frog.
In July I told you that Sinclair Seevers is [...]

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