Walt Shepperd is a veteran of Central New York's political scuffle, having covered government and politics in Syracuse for nearly four decades. He is the Senior Editor of the City Eagle and the Mayor of Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse.
The old synagogue at Crouse and Harrison may become condos, but no matter what renovations occur inside, any passing by of the majestic stone steps and columns will always be of Salt City. A drafty main theater, always a little dark, long in need of an enclosed orchestra space to balance volume for musicals. An intimate, questionably wired second theater with an atmosphere unmatched for its funk factor. Vast storage spaces and cramped dressing rooms. “It was my Southwest Center at the time,” Ken Jackson remembers of growing up on Harrison Street in the Seventies...
T-shirts heralded the 60th anniversary of Our Lady of Pompei’s annual Election Day Spaghetti Supper, which has become tradition as a lunchtime schmooze for candidates, political junkies and John Nicholson’s Newhouse School students. Stephanie Miner stood in one corner, expressing hopes that the low voter turnout she had been witnessing that morning might increase later in the day. Otis Jennings and Steve Kimatian stood in other corners, anticipating either campaigns to come or retirement from the arena. Campaign 2010 was beginning even before 2009’s results were tabulated...
TAGS: political junkies and John Nicholson, Newhouse School students,Syracuse politics 2009,Howie Hawkins, WellPoint insurance agency,Jessica Crawford,Fanny Villerreal,Stephanie Miner
Thousands of people help set new marks for the Guinness Book every year, the day after Thanksgiving, by emptying Clinton Square in record speed after the downtown Christmas tree lighting ceremony. This year the folks at the Hanover Square Association hope a good number of those people will tarry a bit one block over. They are sponsoring a storefront window design contest that extends the bounds of Hanover Square to the tip of the Atrium in City Hall Commons, south a block on Warren Street and perhaps west on Washington Street down to the copy center at the corner of Salina Street...
