Seneca-Cayuga News
- March 5, 2012
- Owasco 'gem' marks 100 years
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Courier photo by Mike Crupi
OWASCO -- In 1911 the Catholic families in the small Cayuga County town of Owasco grew tired of traveling 13 miles to the neighboring town of Moravia by bobsled and wagon each time they wanted to attend Mass. They banded together to purchase a parcel of land in Owasco for $2,000, and Timothy and Ellen O'Brien secured the mortgage for the new congregation, which held its first Mass in January 1912.
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- February 3, 2012
- Parishes get tips to grow ministry
- April 27, 2011
- Speakers work for Holy Land peace
GENESEO -- Ali Abu Awwad is a former Palestinian revolutionary who as a teen participated in the First Intifada, the 1987 Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. Israeli Yuval Rahamim lost his father in the Six Day War between Israel and neighboring Arab nations, and joined Israel's army when he was 15.
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- June 28, 2010
- Auburn park transformed into field of hopes, dreams
AUBURN -- Hoopes Park was quiet the morning of May 30. As Cheryl Foster sat on a park bench in the warm sunshine, the quiet was broken only by the rhythmic footfalls of joggers and dog-walkers, the occasional conversations of fellow park visitors and the faint fluttering of 1,200 American flags being teased by a soft breeze.
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- June 10, 2010
- Chapel House shelters Auburn's homeless
When Chris Coyle was released from prison three months ago he didn't have a job, a car or a place to stay, so his outlook on life was understandably bleak.
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- June 1, 2010
- CASA expands into Cayuga County
Abused, neglected and at-risk children in Cayuga County recently gained five new advocates.
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- February 2, 2010
- Cayuga County parish switches planning groups
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Bishop Matthew H. Clark recently approved a Cayuga County parish's request to leave one pastoral-planning group and join another.
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- December 1, 2009
- Auburn church marks 175th year
Holy Family Church, sometimes referred to as the "mother church of Auburn," is an imposing, twin-spired structure built in 1861. For parishioners,
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- January 6, 2009
- Town leases former Seneca Falls school
In the course of its 130-year history, the large building at 81 W. Bayard St. in Seneca Falls has been home to two separate Catholic schools and a
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- December 23, 2008
- St. Joseph School in Auburn is accredited
Members of the St. Joseph School community received an early Christmas gift at the end of November: accreditation of the Auburn school through the
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