Syracuse Wellness Program Aims to Combat Childhood Obesity Funding was approved for the After School Expanded Fitness and Wellness Program, known as the Fit Kids Clubs, at the Common Council meeting last month. The program started Oct. 13 and will run through Dec. 17. The main focus of the program is to combat childhood obesity.

If secured, money to be spent on trash cans, repainting and fixing street lights Frank Galloway sits at the back corner of the Midland Discount Market, perched on a stack of milk crates. His job at the market is simple: keep people from loitering. Galloway, 32, who’s lived on the South Side of Syracuse his entire life, said he routinely …

Fewer veterans of current conflicts are joining the American Legion American Legion Post 1361 needs a few more good men like Josh Hefti. Hefti, a corporal in the Marine Corps Reserves who spent 10 months in Iraq, returned home in 2009 and did the unheard of: He decided to become a member, and is now the Syracuse post’s one and …

South Side health center can provide vaccine at little to no cost Waiting at the bus stop on the corner of South Salina Street and McKinley Avenue, Aries Williams plays the big sister role and chastises her little brother after he chases his football into the middle of a busy street. Aries, a 16-year-old junior, is headed home from her …

The Stand held a Spoken Word Workshop taught by Verbal Blend’s Director Cedric Bolton on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 at the South Side Innovation Center.

New SKY PAD Studios helps local recording artists make it big With the help of a local recording label, local R&B artist Erika Lovette is in the process of creating her second R&B album — one that will include songs by the same person who performed a song with R&B artist Anita Baker. SKY PAD Studios, a new recording label …

Nationally, teenage pregnancy is declining, but in the Hispanic population, that decline is minimal Last spring, Conchita Mazorra bought a couple of prom dresses. Not for herself — at 68 years old, she’s eyeing retirement more than dances. Instead, Mazorra bought them for several of the young women in her Latinamigas program, a pregnancy prevention program run by Catholic Charities.

Schools in Syracuse engage students in how to respond to conflict Imagine hearing this in grade school: “You’re the dumbest girl I’ve ever met.” That’s what 10-year-old Vanessa Williams heard one girl say to another in her fifth-grade class at the Southside Charter Academy. “Bullying happens every day,” Vanessa said.

Dedicated volunteers spend hours collecting trash and cleaning up Onondaga Creek As they walked down toward Onondaga Creek in dry shoes, a little after 8 a.m. on a sunny September Saturday, Bob Graham and Steve Seleway remembered what the water had looked like when they began hauling trash out of the polluted channel.