25 Years Ago

 It's September 1980. Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter hit the campaign trail in a quest to win the November Presidential Election.

 Frank Sinatra is the lead performer in the 1980 Jerry Lewis' Labor Day telethon which raises more than $31 million for muscular dystrophy.

 Actor Duncan Renaldo, 76 dies - he was best known as TV's the Cisco Kid.

 The 32nd Annual Emmy Awards are  boycotted by many performers because of the ongoing actors' strike.  Dick Clark and Steve Allen fill in as last-minute hosts when Bob Newhart, Michael Landon, and Lee Remick join the boycott. Taxi is chosen as Best Comedy. Ed Asner (Lou Grant) and Barbara Bel Geddes (Dallas) are chosen as Best Actor and Actress in a Drama. Richard Mulligan and Cathryn Damon are chosen as Best Actor and Actress in a Comedy for their work on Soap.

 Author Katherine Anne Porter, 89, dies. She wrote Ship of Fools.

 Governor Hugh Carey says the World Trade Center will be put up for sale because it is unable to turn a profit.

 Actress Greta Garbo celebrates her 75th birthday in Switzerland.

 At the first Presidential debate includes Ronald Reagan and John Anderson. President Carter does not participate - he wanted to debate Reagan one-on-one before taking part in a three-way debate.

 People Magazine "Best Dressed" list includes Ronald Reagan, John Travolta, Johnny Carson, Suzanne Somers, Katherine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields. The "Worst Dressed" list includes Cher, Princess Anne, and Sammy Davis, Jr.

 Iraq attacks Iran which considers the invasion part of a US plot. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie says the conflict between Iran and Iraq is "potentially explosive and could escalate into the unthinkable ultimate."

 In the Southern Tier, Labor Day temperatures reach a high of 89 degrees.

 SUNY-Binghamton has its largest student body ever. The university expects the final enrollment to be 10,900.

 The 3rd Annual Mother Nature's Bluegrass and Olde Tyme Music Festival is held at the Tioga County Fairgrounds in Owego. The event includes a jumping frog contest and a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest. Proceeds benefit the Waterman Conservation Center

 The 3rd Annual Sun Run is held in Binghamton.

 The Little Meadows Borough President resigns after residents protest the firing of the borough's only policeman. He later retracts his resignations when he discovers the board members do not want to reinstate the borough's policeman.

 Shogun, as 12-hour miniseries based on James Clavell's book, airs on five successive nights on TV. The show, which stars Richard Chamberlain as a 17th century navigator shipwrecked in Japan, is a hit - sales of video tape players and TV rentals soar, and the book becomes a best seller in local stores.

 Broome Community College offers seven mini-courses in Owego for the first time. Courses include speed reading, belly dancing, Chisanbop (fingermath), memory improvement, executive report writing, the potential of aging, and how to cope with professional stress.

 Owego's Miss Helen D. La Monte celebrates her 108th birthday. Born in 1872, La Monte's family farm included Hiawatha Island.

 A midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Show in Owego is disrupted when a teenager sprays a caustic liquid on the audience. Four people are sent to the hospital and about 25 people suffer burns. Theater owners will hire security guards for future showings of the movie.

 Best selling books include Firestarter by Stephen King, The Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon, Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote, Shelley by Shelley Winters, and Random Winds by Belva Plain.

 Movies playing at local theaters include The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu; Dressed to Kill; Middle Age Crazy with Bruce Dern and Ann-Margret; Oh, Heavenly Dog; My Bodyguard; The Big Brawl; Smokey and the Bandit II;  Ordinary People; and  The Big Red One. Local movie-goers are also enjoy a sneak preview of Somewhere In Time starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

 And U-pick apples cost 12¢ per pound.