Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Driving through downtown Utica for the first time since college some 40 years ago, I was both alarmed and saddened to see that the city looks as if it is dying. Utica is...
Karen Refugee Academic Standout Interns for Lockwood Law. Heads to Albany State in the...
Moo Toh Taw is a graduate of Proctor High School class of 2016 and received her associate degree in Criminal Justice from Herkimer County Community College in the spring of 2018.
Moo was the Commencement...
Charles Bronson, An American Award Winning Actor
By Ted Rajchel
Background
According to the Polish-American Encyclopedia, Charles Bronson was born to a Lithuanian-Polish father, who worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. Charles Bronson was born on November 3, 1921 in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania. He...
“MVHS Healthcare Workers are Exhausted, Scared, and Struggling” Say Nurses
300 Nurses Said MVHS Couldn't handle a Pandemic. Now they're right
Story by Eamon Handzel
Several months ago, 300 nurses and 459 community members of MVHS signed a petition stating that MVHS was too short-staffed to...
Padre Pio Patron Saint of Utica?
By Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
So, 2017 City of Utica records indicates that crime is down substantially in our city. It was reported that there was a double-digit reduction in nearly every crime category when compared to...
Stefanie Powers — American Movie and Television Actress
Voices of Polonia By Ted Rajchel
Background Stefanie Powers is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the American mystery series Hart to Hart, with Robert Wagner, which aired for...
The Secret Meeting the Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation
By Anonymous
Editor’s Note: Eight years ago I received the following document from Imam Malik Najeeulah who was then a board member of For The Good as well as a friend. The contents were shocking....
New Radio Voice FCC Approved Utica Phoenix Radio 95.5 FM
Utica area listeners will hear a new kind of radio starting early this summer as Utica Phoenix Radio- also to be known as “The Heat” - goes on the air. Phoenix Radio will be...
Absence of Justice Riot at Revels Funeral Home
Absence of Justice in brutal attack at Revels Funeral Home
By Phoenix Staff
In the middle of the June heat of last year, a couple (Monica Revels and Jeff Yeomans) were beaten in the funeral home...
At the Movies–“Nacho Libre”
by Mark Ziobro
I was shocked to learn that “Nacho Libre,” the tempered and anticlimactic comedy starring Jack Black was actually loosely based on true events, the tribulations of Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, a Mexican Catholic...