Ron Klopfanstein
Multimedia journalist, news and features editor, and creative content producer for the Utica Phoenix digital platform and 95.5 FM The Heat broadcast and streaming radio.
Central New York celebrates Pride 2023
By Ron Klopfanstein
Celebrating and supporting the LGBTQ Community is more important than ever this year, there are many ways to do that right here...
These Good and Crazy People: Utica University’s “Pioneer Players” present Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”
by Ron Klopfanstein
Last Tuesday, I finished teaching my English 102 class and headed to Strebel Auditorium to watch while Utica University Theatre Department’s “Pioneer...
When they come for one of us: Central New York rallies for the Transgender...
Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates transgender people and their contributions to society while raising awareness of the prejudice and discrimination many in the community...
Feature Story: The ‘Marshall Fund’ Under Investigation by the Attorney General
Story and photos by Ron Klopfanstein
Virginia Keith was the president of the Town of Brookfield Historical Society from 2012-2014. That was when she first...
Utica’s Hunger Games; Will indifference, incompetence, or inattention cost Cornhill its community garden?
How Utica's inner city minority community is fighting to save its decades-old neighborhood green space from an out-of-town developer who surreptitiously acquired the land...
Our New Neighbors: Exploring the Cultural and Historical Context of a Racist Conspiracy Theory...
“Mi familia, mis amigos, mi casa.”
That is what Lourdes Matheus, age 35, had to leave behind in Venezuela; her family, her friends, and her...
Column: Who is Sarah Klee Hood and why are Voters so Excited About Her?
By Ron Klopfanstein | Columnist
“The status quo is not working,” Sarah Klee Hood says. “We need change and we need energy.”
Klee Hood is running for...
New faces seek to fill the void left by Anthony Brindisi by Ron Klopfanstein...
By Ron Klopfanstein and Ethan Pavlus
New faces seek to fill the void left by Anthony Brindisi
On Thursday, June 24th, Syracuse.com broke the news...
Streaming Something Rotten, Utica College Theatre Department meets the challenge of COVID
By Ron Klopfanstein
Cailee Blackington is a freshman at Utica College. She is majoring in Communications and Media with a Theater concentration and Animal Behavior....
The Curious Case of Rose Grimaldi and Carolann Cardone
By Ron Klopfanstein
Two days after the failed coup attempt in Washington, Patrick Lohmann, a reporter for Syracuse.com broke staggering political news closer to home.
“700...