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Claudia Tenney is the Republican and Conservative candidate for New York’s 22nd Congressional district and an attorney representing Oneida tribal leader Melvin Phillips.The iconoclasts are back. Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Francis Scott Key and dozens more must be canceled — centuries after they died. A strange hubris has...

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Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced he will form a Columbus Circle Action Group to advise the City of Syracuse on the creation of an all-season, education and learning site at the downtown park space that has been home to a statue of Christopher Columbus since 1934. Walsh said the group’s charge will include recommendations on the presence of the mo...

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Almost from its inception, downtown Syracuse’s Christopher Columbus monument has been surrounded by controversy. Its dedication at St. Mary’s Circle, now Columbus Circle, on Oct. 12, 1934 was the culmination of a 25-year campaign that spanned a world war, a depression, a lawsuit and disagreements over its location. The idea began as early as 1909 w...

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Laura Mezzanotte never smoked and never drank. Yet even she was surprised she made it to 102. Her son Richard explained she had developed "a little dementia," and when she couldn’t remember how old she was, he would remind her of her birth year and the current year and make her do the math. She would say: "How did I live so long?" Mezzanotte, who h...

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A petition asking Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh to take down the Christopher Columbus statue in the city now has nearly 8,000 signatures. The mayor says he wants to ensure any discussion made about the statue is one that contributes to a healing process and does not do more harm to the Syracuse community. The debate surrounding this statue is of course...

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Columbus Day is celebrated on October 14th and the monument located at Columbus Circle downtown, is definitely one of the most known local monuments in Syracuse. History curator Robert Searing of the Onondaga Historical Association says the story behind how it found its home in Central New York is an important part of our history. “You have a parad...

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A year after Mayor Ben Walsh called for talk about how the city remembers Christopher Columbus, he says he has no immediate plans to make changes to Columbus Circle or push to rename the October holiday. Yet Walsh said he is open to ideas that have come from a group of about three dozen people who’ve spent weeks talking, learning – and occasionally...

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Union-Endicott graduate Sonny Spera is one of five who will be honored at the 55th annual Syracuse University LetterWinner of Distinction event Nov. 1 at the OnCenter. Joining Spera will be Rob Edson, Gordon Gronkowski, Brad Kotz and Kerri Potts. Those to be honored succeeded athletically and after graduation from SU. On the court, Spera averaged 2...

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Syracuse'se Festa Italiana will be held on September 13-15 (next Friday - Sunday). It'll include a meatball eating contest, bocce challenge, children's tent, heritage tent, wine making demonstrations, open air mass (on Sunday with Syracuse's new Bishop), bingo, photo booth, food vendors, live music and more. John Cerrone is in charge of the heritag...

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The topic of the presence of women in the homes of Italian American communities throughout the United States has always been fascinating, fundamental for the survival of the families of our compatriots in America, and somewhat underestimated. The topic of food is similar, equally important and links many other aspects of the life of the Italian Ame...

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