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Sean Kirst: ‘Birthright citizenship’ was family ignition that helped create a Le Moyne College president

Linda LeMura, first female layperson to serve as president of a Jesuit college, says her mother’s American ideals meant everything.

Drivers are basically being asked — after many non-injury collisions — to sort it out themselves. Police blame a shortage of officers.

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Reflections on years of advocacy for those too often without ready access to the shelter of the law.

With even the children of the boys who threw the stones now late in life, a marker will guarantee civic memory.

In Syracuse, birthplace of the global event, the humble and selfless Sam seems exactly the hobbit for the moment.

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As part of the Friends of the Central Library’s celebrated authors series, Alford talked about a literary journey ignited by a Syracuse childhood.

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For centennial of the green-over-red traffic signal, a streetside marker that beautifully tiptoes the line between history and legend.

The Montreal Royals, Robinson’s old team, are now the Syracuse Mets — while community elders hope what he endured playing here is not forgotten.

The hope that Abend — whose welding helped shatter artistic barriers for women — will inspire similar courage and vision in ongoing generations.

In Rev. Jesse Jackson’s passing, memories of solace at the hardest moment from a giant of civil rights.