Anna Ginelli

3 weeks ago | syracuse.com | Anna Ginelli

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Imagine a place where you could bring an empty detergent or hand soap container and walk out with it refilled. That’s the promise of a new store in Syracuse, the Eastwood Refillery, the city’s first shop dedicated to sellingsustainable and nontoxic household products and refills.It opened its doors in mid-April. A refillery is a retail store where customers can fill empty bottles with various household items, from cosmetics to laundry detergent.

3 weeks ago | thisiscny.com | Anna Ginelli

Syracuse, N.Y. — Imagine a place where you could bring an empty detergent or hand soap container and walk out with it refilled. That’s the promise of a new store in Syracuse, the Eastwood Refillery, the city’s first shop dedicated to sellingsustainable and nontoxic household products and refills.It opened its doors in mid-April. A refillery is a retail store where customers can fill empty bottles with various household items, from cosmetics to laundry detergent.

3 weeks ago | syracuse.com | Anna Ginelli

Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County opioid overdose deaths are the lowest since 2017, new health department data show. But the overwhelming cause for last year’s deaths was fentanyl, a continuing trend that shows the synthetic opioid is the driver of most drug-related fatalities. In 2024, 90 people died of opioid-related deaths, with 81 of those deaths being fentanyl-related. That’s the fewest deaths since 2017, when 91 people died of overdoses. Of those, 39 were fentanyl-related.

1 month ago | syracuse.com | Anna Ginelli

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Onondaga County has one of the highest measles vaccination rates in New York state. The county’s vaccination rate among those 2 years and older stands at 89.2%. That’s just a hair lower than 89.3% in Niagara County, the highest. But eliminating the chance of a measles outbreak relies on a vaccination rate , according to the National Institutes of Health.

1 month ago | syracuse.com | Anna Ginelli

Syracuse, NY -- Upstate University Hospital’s mobile mammography van will begin its tour of 17 locations throughout Central New York starting Tuesday and continuing through the end of summer. The program, which started in June 2019, has screened 4,790 women and made 20 diagnoses of breast cancer. Women 40 years or older can get a mammogram, whether or not they have insurance.