Shooting outside Former ‘Dev’ Bar Downtown Last Night
Last night at around 1:30AM, the intersection of Genesee and Devereux St was lit up by the flashing red lights of almost ten squad cars responding to a shooting at the bar formerly known...
MVLA Gala 12.2.17 Feliz Ano Nuevo
On Saturday, December 2, 2017, the Mohawk Valley Latino Association hosted its 14th Annual Gala at Daniele’s Banquet Facility in New Hartford. This event is held each year to celebrate Hispanic Heritage, and to...
The Community Fridge Expands To Herkimer
Troy Lockwood, a native of Ilion and of no relation to the owner of this publication, has followed in the footsteps of his friend Hana Selimovic who started something called a Community Fridge in...
A Royal Welcome
By David Dancy
Photos by Thomas E. Loughlin Jr.
On Friday, July 28, 2017, For The Good Inc. (FTG) presented to the community an event of monumental, historical, cultural importance. For the first time in the...
Your Bargain Grocer Gets an Update
By Jess Szabo
Compassion Coalition’s grocery store, Your Bargain Grocer, is scheduled to move into its expanded location at 1110 Lincoln Avenue at the end of September.
“We are about a month away from opening the...
Give Peace a Chance at Woodstock Jubilee at Vernon Downs
By Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
Fifty years ago I graduated from high school and promptly moved out of my parent’s house. I was seventeen. It was 1969. It was a time of change. Mary Louise Young was...
The Loss of Vernon Downs Greater than Anticipated
Photos and text by: Cassandra Harris-Lockwood:
Harness racing is as old as America. Scenes and tales from the earliest days of our country depict horses and their drivers racing to the finish line. Still today...
YWCA Mohawk Valley Responds to Weekend Homicide
Utica, NY, July 16, 2019 – According to YWCA Mohawk Valley (YWCA MV), local providers of
domestic and sexual violence services, Sunday’s murder of 17-year-old Bianca Devins provides a glaring picture of the magnitude and devastating...
Sam Cooke’s Family Sings Too!
The late Sam Cooke and newly discovered daughter Roselyn Trapps Cooke
Today, getting your DNA tested is a trend. People pay a fee to businesses like My Heritage DNA or Ancestry dot com, receive a...
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 from the county
by Ron Klopfanstein
On September 7th, 2022, Cassandra Harris...