The City of Utica

Utica, N.Y., April 28, 2018 – YWCA Mohawk Valley (YWCA MV) calls all individuals to join with YWCA USA in taking a Stand Against...

Utica, NY, #NoHospitalDowntown, in conjunction with Better Utica Downtown, request the interested public, media, and area leaders to attend a Tuesday, May 1, 6PM talk by noted author,  James Howard Kunstler. Location is the Fort Schuyler Club at 254 Genesee Street. RSVP's are appreciated via the #NoHospitalDowntown Facebook group's "Events" tab. Mr. Kunstler will offer his outlook on the “built environment” of towns and cities. Uniquely  qualified, after intense study and writing; The Geography of Nowhere, “Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots,  housing tracts, megamalls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.” In his book, Home From Nowhere, Kunstler's discussion continues with an emphasis on the  remedies, a portion of which appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic  Monthly. Mr. Kunstler’s next book, “The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition”, was  published by Simon & Schuster / FreePress, and is a wideranging look at American cities and abroad. Offered as an inquiry into what makes cities great, or miserable, and in particular what America is going to do with our “mutilated” cities. Our groups have not overlyprepared Mr. Kunstler; having only spent no more than 30 minutes on the phone together and suggesting he read our groups’ websites and media stories  surrounding the proposed new hospital. Please prepare for a lively presentation and discussion as we all await Mr. Kunstler’s review of the downtown hospital concept. Media outlets may contact Brett Truett at (315) 7940401 for limited press interview times prior to, or just following the speaker’s presentation. Also plan to listenin to Utica radio stations the following morning, Wednesday May 2, asradio engagements have been set into  motion. You may gather more information at www.kunstler.com, for a complete bio, as well as  connect with the author’s Facebook page by searching “KunstlerCast”. Another event brought to you by concerned residents making-up the following groups, and who seek a new hospital at the St. Luke’s Campus, and not in the Columbia Lafayette Neighborhood: www.NoHospitalDowntown.com/ www.BetterUticaDowntown.com

The Utica Public Library is offering Hatha Yoga with Kristy Caruso on Mondays, June 4th, 11th, & 18th at 6:30 pm.  Hatha Yoga is a  practical philosophy that...

Utica area listeners will hear a new kind of radio starting early this summer as Utica Phoenix Radio- also to be known as “The...

By Cassandra Harris-Lockwood The March edition of the Utica Phoenix carried a story entitled “A History of Hospitals in Utica.” It explained in a very...

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Dear, Editor: "What difference would it make, really?" Have you ever been asked a question that left you speechless for a moment? Recently, I was having...

The City of Utica’s Department of Public Works announces that the Annual Spring Green Waste Pick-Up will officially begin on April 16th. Starting Monday, April...