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Common Council criticizes agency’s power to buy abandoned homes The Greater Syracuse Land Bank, the public agency designed to take over abandoned residential properties and turn them over to a nonprofit renovator, will acquire 600 homes this year and next. But now, four years after the agency began its work, some members of the city’s Common Council are criticizing the …

South Presbyterian Church could be getting closer to gaining new use One of Syracuse’s historic church buildings, once a bulwark in its South Side neighborhood, may be a step closer to being sold, renovated and put to a new use, city officials say. The Greater Syracuse Land Bank announced at its monthly meeting in February that it would contract with …

Syracuse city media students explore options for careers in daylong visit to Newhouse Twelve high school juniors in the Media Track at Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central spent a day at the Newhouse School last month to see whether they are Newhouse ready” and to get energized about a future in journalism. Professor Steve Davis, chair of the Department …

Challenge participants share experiences in their their pledge to live on $97 for a week In an effort to raise awareness about the plight of the working class, Central New York’s Fight for $15 Coalition organized a “minimum wage challenge.” For March 7 through 11, about two dozen people pledged to live on the minimum wage for their daily expenses, …

The Bells of Harmony founder is proof that gospel thrives in a changing music world Over the past 50 years, music has gone through a number of innovations in the way it is written, recorded, distributed and heard. It has held up through a time when musicians would all gather together to record in a single room to a time …

Discussion centers on how Syracuse expanded care for child abuse

In our upcoming April print issue, Kayli Thompson reports on our cover story on the CUSE DIVAS, a competitive dance squad. Staff reporter Ashley McBride followed along as Fight for $15 supporters pledged to live on minimum wage for a week. Ryan Raigrodski reports on how a historic church may soon become listed on the National Register of Historic Places, …

Majorette squad CUSE DIVAS leads dancers to exceed Outside the studio — where black curtains are drawn over the windows and the sounds of music and talking are muffled — one might not guess there are members of a hard-working majorette dance team inside, pushing themselves. Girls ages 5 to 18 are doing crunches and push-ups, warming up for their …

Real Fathers/Real Men shape a brighter future for urban youth

Women unite to mentor young girls at Sisters Empowering Sisters event