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1 day ago | syracuse.com | Geoff Herbert

“Syracuse Playlist” is a monthly feature on syracuse.com highlighting music from local artists. If you’re a Syracuse-area musician, email [email protected] to share your music, including your artist name, song/album title, a brief description of your sound, where to listen to your music, and the best place for fans to follow you online. * * * * *Add some local tunes this June to your playlist.

1 day ago | syracuse.com | Geoff Herbert

Syracuse astronaut Jeanette Epps is retiring from NASA, less than a year after completing her first space mission. Epps retired May 30, NASA announced Thursday, following 16 years of service with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She most recently spent seven months in space as mission specialist during NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, including 232 days aboard the International Space Station and working on hundreds of scientific experiments during Expedition 71/72.

1 day ago | syracuse.com | Connor Pignatello

Syracuse, N.Y. – While many high school seniors are in full senior slide mode by this time of the year, West Genesee senior Jon Shoults has kicked his schedule into hyper overdrive. Shoults, the starting goalie on the 19-0 Wildcats lacrosse team, will play in both the lacrosse and golf state tournaments this weekend.

1 day ago | syracuse.com | Geoff Herbert

Few artists are as hot as Benson Boone right now. And few artists have earned it the way he has. The Grammy-nominated singer performed a sold-out concert at CMAC (Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center) in Canandaigua, N.Y., on Thursday night. He commanded every inch of the stage. He did backflips. He belted hits like “Beautiful Things” and “In the Stars,” with fans screaming every lyric back at him. Boone, 22, is simultaneously retro and current.

2 days ago | syracuse.com | Marnie Eisenstadt

Syracuse, N.Y. -- People hung from the top of a new chain-link fence at the end of Dickerson Street Wednesday morning. The homeless staying at the Rescue Mission could see downtown Syracuse and the Salt City Market, but they couldn’t get there. They fence locked them in. The street had been a well-traveled, and troubled, path between downtown and the Rescue Mission, Syracuse’s largest homeless shelter. Workers came early Wednesday morning and put up a series of chain-link fences.