Bainbridge Requests Traffic Light Protection

 Norwich Sun, July 15, 1937

 

Bainbridge's "busy corner" may soon be protected against further automobile accidents providing the state traffic commission acts favorably upon the request of the village board of trustees for the installation of a traffic light at that point.  The question of the advisability of placing a "stop and go" signal at this intersection of East and West Main streets with route 7 over North and South Main streets, has long been agitated and on several occasions has been under consideration by the village board only to be turned down for the reason that the state law made it impossible for villages of less than 5,000 inhabitants to enforce such traffic regulations.  To the many citizens who favored the traffic control light, this reason seemed insufficient as many other villages were using stop and go lights on their busy intersections, however the law was correctly interpreted by the village board and their stand in the matter was justified by advice from the state highway department.  A new state provision, however, removes this impediment to the placing of a traffic light with the result that at the meeting of the village board Monday evening, the first step was authorized and a letter is being sent to the state traffic commission requesting them to look over the existing situation in Bainbridge and if deemed advisable to install a stop and go light here. 

 

Fitzgeralds Must Leave Bainbridge

 Sidney Man Found His Daughter in a Disorderly House

 Norwich Sun, July 18, 1911

 

Bainbridge:  In Justice Court Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fitzgerald were convicted of keeping a disorderly house on the East Side and sentenced to spend six months each in the Onondaga county penitentiary.  The sentence was suspended as long as both stay away from town.  Last Monday night John Rowe of Sidney came to this village in search of his daughter and located her at the house of the Fitzgeralds.  Rowe asserts that he attempted to take his daughter away when a visitor of the place struck him several times.  He returned to the village and secured the services of three constables and a round-up was made of the place.  Four persons, one man and three girls, besides the Fitzgeralds were arrested and lodged in jail, while others escaped.  The girls and man plead guilty to the charge of being inmates of a disorderly house and sentence was suspended as long as they remain away from town.