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Award-winning columnist, photographer and news writer Ellen Leahy is editor of the City Eagle in Syracuse, NY. She is the former editor of the Skaneateles Press and the Marcellus Observer, also in Central New York and is a freelance photographer and adjunct professor in food service at Onondaga Community College.

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Oct

Show me the players

eleahy, Wondering about

My 20-something friend, who taught me how to text (today’s morse code), is out of work on leave. So, I have been sending her bits of information on what I have been up too.
Tuesday of this week, I texted her that I was going to go meet “the Beaver” at the farmer’s market in downtown Syracuse. I hoped she knew who and what I meant as in Jerry Mathers, the actor who played the 60s television icon Beaver on “Leave it to Beaver.” He was in town as a spokesperson for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: beaver,cleaver,financial meltdown,sponge bob, texting

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Oct

Remember the old song, ‘Downtown?’

eleahy, Wondering about

I think “Downtown” went something like this:
Things will be great when we’re...downtown!
Everything’s waiting for you...

On Oct. 2, I attended the first of three forums on downtown Syracuse hosted by Syracuse University’s Maxwell School (not to be confused with house) and the daily newspaper The Post Standard. It was held ironically, downtown. We gathered at the Hotel Syracuse. Our mission was to determine what that “everything” was going to be. And if my table was any indication “everything” was the scope.

I have to applaud SU and the Post’s exhubarent Greg Munno for hosting this sociological survey...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: hotel syracuse,pascales bakehouse,munno,cny speaks,Maxwell School

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Oct

Park this ... please

eleahy, Wondering about

Last week I mentioned being at the first CNY Speaks roundtable on the future of downtown Syracuse. Of course ‘parking’ came up at my table. No, not that kind of parking - but the act of putting your vehicle in a space and leaving it over a certain amount of time. The varying points of view were interesting. We had a couple of city employees at our table and they seemed to be on the parking garage (PG) plan. They couldn’t understand Syracusans aversion to these structures. It turned out that people felt they were expensive, there was a safety issue and also PGs closed too early.

I guess in my subconscious a PG seems like a roach hotel with one way in and no way out. One of the most horrific, senseless Syracuse murders took place in a PG...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: downtown syracuse,munno,cny speaks,parking garages,parking lots free,

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