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Thursday, February 8, 2007 9:28 AM EST

Feb. 7, 1927
A cow on the farm of Earl E. Simpson, hooked its horn through a lantern, dashed madly through a barn and set fire to the building. It caused an estimated $15,000 in damages.

Feb. 7, 1962

The auditorium of Auburn Community College was filled when Jean Ritchie, of the “Singing Ritchie's” of Kentucky joined the students in salute to the flag.

Feb. 7, 1997

The Sterling Commission endorsed a plan to build a nature center on bluffs overlooking Lake Ontario. With a new year and a new mood. the commission, charged with managing

the 2,800-acre county property, went to work last night at the Sterling Town Hall. Atop the agenda was a proposal by the Sterling Town Planning Board for a nature center to be built on park land on McIntyre Road on the western end of the property.

Feb. 7, 2002

The home where the city's only U.S. Congressman lived is on the market. The four-story brick building at 9-11 James St., where Sereno Elisha Payne lived most of his life, is for sale. The building's new owners, Security National Commercial, a Baton Rouge, La.-based mortgage-holding company, has hired Bouck Real Estate to market it.

- Linda Simmons

The city condemned the property in January because the historic landmark had been abandoned and no one was maintaining it, city officials said last week. SN Commercial, which holds hundreds of mortgages across the country, purchased the building for $89,000 during a public auction Nov. 15, after filing foreclosure proceedings on the property against local landlord Paul Meyer, according to court papers in the Cayuga County Clerk's office.

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