Sidney-Center News

A spirit of thanksgiving, community and celebration will be fostered during an interfaith service in Oneonta on Tuesday night, an organizer said.

DELHI _ The two men and one teenager charged with arson in a series of fires in Delaware County appeared in court for arraignment Monday.

The Sidney Center United Methodist Church will celebrate its past and its future at 11 a.m. Sunday during a special service at its temporary home at the Fireman's Hall on Main Street.

The following births have recently been announced by A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta: Oct.

The parsonage of the Sidney Center United Methodist Church shows heavy exterior damage from intense heat at it's location at the rear of the destroyed church.

Wednesday afternoon, Delaware County Sheriffa s Deputies arrested and charged two East Meredith males with Arson in the Third Degree in connection with the October 1st early morning arson fire at the Sidney Center United Methodist Church.

Four years ago, the two facilities operated by the Board of Cooperative Education Services to serve the 16 component school districts in Delaware, Chenango, Madison and Otsego counties were overcrowded and ill-equipped to prepare students to meet the ever-changing needs of the real world.

Two Stamford residents were arrested on arson charges today as part of the investigation into a rash of suspicious fires in Delaware County, Delaware deputies said.

A pair of East Meredith residents is facing arson charges in connection with the blaze that leveled the Sidney Center United Methodist Church and they're linked to five more, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.

A series of eight suspicious building fires and 4 incidents of vandalism in isolated areas throughout Delaware County during the last few months has resulted in the assignment of extra patrols to try to locate the person or persons responsible for causing this widespread havoc and destruction.

But to burn down a church _ where adults come to pray, where children come to learn _ somehow makes a vile act even more sordid.

A Delaware County Sheriff's Department arson task force was already working on eight suspicious building fires and four incidents of vandalism involving arson when two buildings in Sidney Center were torched early Thursday morning.

Investigators in Delaware county say in the early morning hours of October 1st, there were two separate structure fires in the town of Sidney, in the Hamlet of Sidney Center.

The congregation of the Sidney Center United Methodist Church will hold its worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Sidney Center Fire Hall at the intersection of Main Street and Depot Street in Sidney Center, church trustee Carol Bennett said.

Arson fires destroyed an 1896 church and a barn in the Sidney Center fire district Thursday morning, Delaware County Undersheriff Douglas Vredenburgh said after a daylong investigation.

An early-morning fire destroyed the Sidney Center United Methodist Church and a barn at a nearby site, a fire official said Thursday morning.

The recipient of the fifth annual DCMO BOCES Marshman-Hall Commitment to Education Award is longtime Afton and BOCES board of education member Margery Secrest, according to a media release.

The Sidney Central School Board of Education chose a high school principal during a special meeting on Thursday.

The future of the Sidney Center school building and the search for a replacement for the high school principal are on the agenda of tonight's Sidney school board meeting, said Superintendent Sandra Cooper.

The future of the Sidney Center school building and the search for a replacement for the high school principal are on the agenda of tonight's Sidney school board meeting, said Superintendent Sandra Cooper.