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Photo of John Hodgins in February 2005 with an en plein air painting of his, courtesy of his daughter Joyce Dwyer.
Beloved local artist, Batavia businessman and former county legislator John Jay Hodgins died this morning. He was 87.
Born in Basom on Dec. 12, 1931 to Ora and Velma Hodgins
One of the area's largest construction firms, owned by Darien Center resident John Zoladz, lost a $435,692 contract for a project in Hamburg this week, after being the low bidder, and is blaming what the company describes as a pro-union front group for the change of direction.
Meanwhile, an organization
One hundred and forty years ago, homes didn't have electricity, and there were no amateur photographers.
That's right. In 1884, neither General Electric nor Eastman Kodak's founders had launched their history-making companies, nor had Nabisco or Coca-Cola product their game-changing products to market yet.
But a pair of young businessmen in Oakfield, Ralph E. Chapin and brother-in-law Frank Harris, had devised an idea for a better container to store kerosene for lamps and Chapin Manufacturing was born.
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