About: Bethany Bump
- Profile
- Bethany is a senior newspaper journalism and political science major at Syracuse University. She worked as an editor at The Daily Orange from January 2009 to May 2010, and is currently a staff writer. She has interned at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y. and contributed to the Leader-Herald in Gloversville, N.Y. Her work has appeared in these publications, as well as The Denver Post and The Post-Standard.
Posts by Bethany Bump:
Epilepsy Explained
The regional Epilepsy Foundation works to raise awareness and understanding Any time, any place and for any length of time — there is nothing predictable about when a seizure can strike. For South Side resident Tajuana Jones, 36, who has epilepsy, the sudden and unpredictable nature of the condition she has lived with since she [...]
I-81′s Future Challenged
Community members and transportation officials examine I-81’s role in Syracuse Years before President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System spread across American cities and eventually through Syracuse, the city’s 15th Ward was a vibrant, diverse community. Within it were high- and low-income residents, white and black neighbors and the city’s first black dentist.
Preserving Dunbar
Community members rally to overcome challenges as the Dunbar Center loses funding Adalsa Latty points out the window of his ground-floor office at the Dunbar Center. A snow-speckled South State Street outside is cracked and rundown, cutting through a struggling neighborhood. He drops his hands in despair. He sighs with the force of someone exhausted [...]
Director's Blog
Current Issue
Issue No. 19 of The Stand is packed with 24 pages of South Side updates, spotlights and timely stories.
Read about how former convicts are earning themselves a second chance while working at Omanii’s Lemonade Heaven, read about how South Side homeowner may be asked to purchase costly flood insurance and many other local stories.
To view the entire issue as a pdf, click on the cover to download a copy.
And you can find copies of our free Summer Print Issue distributed throughout the South Side or feel free to contact ashley@mysouthsidestand.com to request a stack.
Environment
Community Air Screen Program Introduced
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is often contacted by citizens regarding the quality of the air in their community. To help address many of these concerns, DEC is initiating a new community-based program, the Community Air Screen (CAS). This program uses local volunteers to gather air samples for laboratory screening to identify possible air pollutants. The screening results will help both the community and DEC better understand and address specific local concerns about air quality.
Events
Summer Workshops
Three workshops are planned this summer for those in the community interested in getting involved with The South Side Newspaper Project and contributing to The Stand. The first, offered at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 19, at the South Side Communication Center, will provide a lesson in journalist writing and discuss additional ways to contribute to the project.
Health
Grant to Fund Hearing Aids for Youth
The Gifford Foundation recently awarded $13,000 to Aurora of CNY, Inc. to support its Low Cost Hearing Aid Program for Youth who are Hard of Hearing.
Voices
Deterring Crime
Businesses could benefit from potential installation of security cameras
Corcoran High School senior Delores Woody, who lives near the intersection of Midland Avenue and West Colvin Street, lost three family members to violent crime: two shootings and one stabbing. She’s heard that surveillance cameras were installed on the West Side, and thinks it could help deter crime on the South Side, too.
“That would work. I would support it, because I recently lost my own cousin to it, and my other one, here. Right there, at that pole, and the other one down here,” said Woody, pointing to the intersection, and then pointing a few hundred feet away. Woody said she also lost her uncle to a shooting in the neighborhood.
