Marnie Eisenstadt

2 weeks ago | syracuse.com | Marnie Eisenstadt |Greta Stuckey

Sam Nordquist wanted love. He wanted a family. He thought he found it on TikTok. He announced in a video last fall that he’d finally met his other half. The video, captioned Mrs. and Mr. Nordquist, was posted Sept. 1. Photos of Nordquist scroll on the right. Pictures of Precious Arzuaga, his Mrs., scrolled on the left. Arzuaga, 14 years his senior and 1,000 miles away in a tiny Finger Lakes town, did the same with Nordquist on her Facebook page, adding his last name to hers. The two had not met in person.

4 weeks ago | syracuse.com | Marnie Eisenstadt

Vinny Lobdell still remembers his brother’s last hug. Lobdell was 15. His big brother, Rusty, was 19. Rusty stopped by the hockey rink in Pulaski to give little Vinny a hug, and tell him he loved him. That was the last Lobdell saw his brother alive. Rusty went to the barn behind the family’s home in Pulaski and shot himself. He had long struggled with mental illness.

1 month ago | syracuse.com | Marnie Eisenstadt

DeWitt, N.Y. — More than 400 people attended tonight’s meeting of the Jamesville-DeWitt school board in-person and online, demanding transparency and action from school Superintendent Peter Smith and the school board. The meeting comes after the revelations that the district twice brushed off death threats by a seventh-grader who is the son of a district administrator. After the second threat, the child again was allowed to return to school where he then attacked an aide.

1 month ago | syracuse.com | Marnie Eisenstadt

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse city officials will be hosting a online forum tonight about immigration. The speakers include immigration lawyers, representatives from resettlement agencies in Syracuse and an assistant from the state Attorney General’s office. The goal is to help residents of Syracuse, a “sanctuary city,” navigate federal changes in immigration policy.

1 month ago | syracuse.com | Marnie Eisenstadt

The Jamesville-DeWitt school district twice allowed a student to return to school after threatening to kill two different teachers over the course of a year. The student, who is in seventh grade, attacked and choked an aide Feb. 11 after being allowed to return to school following a suspension for threatening to kill a seventh-grade English teacher. He described, in detail, how he would kill her and drew pictures, then turned in his plans as part of an assignment.