Mohawk Valley Almanac for January 2025
Mohawk Valley Almanac for January 2025
By Roger Chambers
Holidays in January 2025
January 1 New Year’s Day
January 7 Orthodox Christmas, Julian
January 6 Epiphany,...
Mohawk Valley Almanac August 2024
Mohawk Valley Almanac August 2024
August followed closely by September’s Labor Day is the last hurrah of summer. Colleges and universities begin classes prior to...
Mohawk Valley Almanac for March 2024
By Roger Chambers
The third largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the state is in Utica on Saturday March 16, a day before the actual...
December Almanac
Holidays and Celebrations during December 2022
December 3 First Sunday of Advent
December 6 St. Nicholas Day
December 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day; First Day of...
Mohawk Valley Almanac for January 2023
By Roger Chambers | Utica Phoenix Columnist
Life is nearly “back to normal” as the surge of Thanksgiving to New Year’s travel to pre-Covid levels...
Editorial: The November Elections and Weakening of Democracy
By Roger Chambers | Columnist
In the short book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” Timothy Snyder outlines tactics used by would-be autocrats...
Editorial: Jarvis Library and Banned Books Week
Story by Roger Chambers | Utica Phoenix Columnist
In 1982, a Supreme Court Case known as the Board of Education, Island Trees School District v....
Editorial: The FBI Search Warrant at Mar-a-Lago
By Roger Chambers | Columnist
Author’s Note: This was written August 11, 2022, shortly after Attorney General Merritt Garland spoke about the FBI search warrant...
Editorial: The November Elections and Weakening of Democracy
By Roger Chambers | Columnist
In the short book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” Timothy Snyder outlines tactics used by would-be autocrats...
Mohawk Valley Almanac – August 2022
By Roger Chambers | Columnist
August has no major holidays. While August is generally more popular for family vacations and the better-known large summer festivals,...