June 17, 1907

As a result of the recent inspection of the three rural free delivery routes from the Seneca Falls Post Office an order has been issued by the department at Washington, increasing the salaries of carriers. Carriers Charles Allman and Frank Wilson are to receive $864 and Roscoe Allen, will be paid $900.

June 17, 1947

Two Auburn women were elected to high posts at the state convention of Italian-American War veterans. Mary A. Vasile was elected state treasurer and Dora Ciampaglia was elected a trustee.

June 17, 1997

If John Ashby were a cat, he would be down to eight lives now. The 57-year-old Sennett resident survived a single-engine plane crash at Farnsworth Air Park in Rose. All he had to show for it was a Mickey Mouse Band-Aid on his left index finger. “I survived very luckily,” said Ashby, whose one injury, a cut finger, did not even require a butterfly bandage. “If I didn't have the shoulder straps and seatbelts, I'd most likely be dead.”

June 17, 2002

Nine years ago, merchants and property owners formed the Auburn Downtown Partnership to improve downtown through better marketing and management. In June 2001, the Auburn City Council approved a Business Improvement District - a swath of downtown with about 150 businesses and residences. Those owning property in the business district pay more in taxes, about $230 more a year for a property assessed at $100,000. Syracuse native Sandra Craner was hired in September as executive director of the ADP, and last week, she released her first report on the state of the agency.

- Compiled by Linda Simmons