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6 days ago |
syracuse.com | Johnathan Croyle
With temperatures stubbornly staying in the 60s this weekend, Central New Yorkers can once again complain about the lack of summer weather. Oh, and its going to rain too, extending the almost absurd streak of wet or snowy weekends that extends back to mid-November. We’re not alone. Our Syracuse ancestors 100 years ago, in May 1925, were having the same grumbles. An editorial in the June 5, 1925 Herald could have been written today.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Johnathan Croyle
Kenneth Williams liked to say he quite “literally fell into piano tuning.”He was an eight-year-old student at the New York State Institute for the Blind in Batavia, NY, one Saturday morning when he came upon the school’s piano instructor tuning a piano. “I climbed up on a windowsill to listen to him,” Williams told The Herald-Journal in 1981. When three other students joined him, Williams took a tumble. “I fell about 12 feet down on my head on a porch. So, I say, I literally fell into piano tuning.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Johnathan Croyle
CAZENOVIA, NY – Rebecca Bostwick and her husband, Phil McCarthy, are self-described “nature people” and “dog lovers.”They were married at Lake Placid, loved the Adirondacks, and could often be found walking their dogs at Jamesville Beach while they were living at their home in Manlius. During many of their excursions, they often had an ambitious thought. What if they owned their own state park they could enjoy with their four-legged best friends? The idea sounded far-fetched.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Johnathan Croyle
In 1994, when looking back at his 39 years of public service, Judge Bernard Reagan told the Herald-Journal what he thought made him an effective community servant. “I always try to be fair,” he said. He believed that “party politics” should always “disappear from consideration” once a person was elected to public office. “I always thought the important thing was to get to the solution and don’t turn it into a political problem.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Johnathan Croyle
The unofficial summer season is here. After taking a moment to remember the service and sacrifice of those who died while serving America, Central New Yorkers can look forward to a day of rest and fun. Weather permitting, of course. A sure sign of summer is the return of concerts to Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview.
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