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Justin Murphy is a graduate journalism student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he taught linguistics at Vilnius University in Lithuania. Murphy's writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Chicago Redeye, the Syracuse City Eagle, the Daily Orange and online at baseballdigest.com, seamheads.com, sabr.org and redwingsbaseball.com.

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Next Journalism Workshop on Video

The Stand’s September 2010 Workshop will cover how to make a video piece. The full-day workshop will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, with a short classroom session followed by an opportunity for participants to venture out into the South Side to make a short video and put their new skills to the test.



Mary Nelson’s Ninth annual Youth Day BBQ

A community comes together as thousands of children and families come out to be entertained, eat and receive school supplies. The smell of barbecue, the sound of music filled the air and tons of school supplies stretched across tables located in the Key Bank parking lot, as families filled the corner of South Salina Street [...]



Train to be a Volunteer Literacy Tutor

Fact: 1:5 adults in Onondaga County and 1:4 adults in the City of Syracuse have functional literacy needs. Starting in October, a Six-Week Training Workshop on Adult Basic Literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL) will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday mornings at ProLiteracy, 1320 Jamesville Ave., Syracuse. The training begins [...]



Mary Nelson’s 9th annual Youth Day BBQ is Aug. 21

The 9th annual Youth Day BBQ will be held at the corner of South Salina Street and Wood Avenue from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, with a parade for youths beginning at 11 a.m. Local students from Pre-K to college will receive donated school supplies they need. Volunteers will hand out backpacks [...]

Samuel Rogers Passes

Another original member of the Mississippi-Syracuse singing group The Friendly Five has recently passed away.

Next Journalsim Workshop Aug. 14

The next Journalism Workshop will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 14, at the South Side Innovation Center, 2610 S. Salina St. It will be taught by Maureen Sieh, who has more than 20 years of newspaper experience and has covered Syracuse’s South Side for The Post-Standard as the former Urban Affairs [...]



Third Time’s the Charm

Click on each cover to download a full pdf issue of The Stand.