Utica University Celebrates Coming Out Day

Utica University Celebrates Coming Out Day By Ron Klopfanstein Utica University’s Strebel Lounge was filled with rainbow colors for a National Coming Out Day celebration on October 11th.  At one table, poster boards were covered with handprints...

Honoring the Sacrifices Made at the Bloody Battle of Oriskany by Ron Klopfanstein

Honoring the Sacrifices Made at the Bloody Battle of Oriskany  By Ron Klopfanstein “I have three ancestors who died here,” Mary Ellen Smith said as she waited for the commencement of the annual ceremony observing the...

Freedom to Read Rally For Education and Equality Draws Enthusiastic Community Support

Freedom to Read Rally For Education and Equality Draws Enthusiastic Community Support By Ron Klopfanstein Dozens of people braved the wind and rain Saturday afternoon as they lined up along the Village Green in Clinton holding...

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 in the Mohawk Valley In 1969, Woodstock took place, and man...

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 Players” practiced the opening scene of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning...

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 still face. In Central New York, the day was observed...
Cassandra Harris Lockwood and the Cornhill Community Gardeners harvesting produce, September 2023

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...

Women’s History Month: “We Don’t Hire Girls” — Becoming the First Female Construction Worker...

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By C. Harris-Lockwood | Photos by the late Anne LaBastille The year was 1971. I was 19 years old and between my freshman and sophomore years of Kirkland College. I was looking for a job. At...

The Heat Beat: The Music of Phoenix Radio and Beyond: Five favorite songs about...

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By Jess Szabo | Arts Writer  January always marks a new beginning, beyond just marking a new year on the calendar.  It is of course a time when we traditionally make resolutions and set new...

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...