City of Utica Announces Major Spending Cutbacks in Light of COVID-19 Pandemic
The office of Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri today issued a statement outlining steps the city is taking to reduce spending in response to the coronavirus outbreak:
In light of the projected fiscal impact of COVID-19...
Utica Comedian Takes National Stage
Seven years ago, Mike Bova said in his mind, he would NEVER be a comedian! Soon after, Mike would co-headline his first comedy show with a semi-finalist from NBC's Last Comic Standing.
Since...
Governor Hochul Announces Transformational $44 Million Investment in SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Builds on Governor Hochul’s Historic Investment in SUNY and in the Mohawk Valley
Governor Kathy Hochul joined the SUNY Polytechnic Institute community and SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr. today to announce a $44 million State...
November 2020 Almanac
November Mohawk Valley Almanac
November is a least favorite month to many with its mostly cloudy and cooler weather, previewing colder and shorter days to come. One needs a jacket, with afternoon high temperatures typically...
Your Neighbors, Doing Good in the Neighborhood
by Pete Bianco
What happens as people in our community grow older, have health challenges and have no family members in the area to help them? Additionally, if they are physically unable to go out...
Brindisi Statement on Meeting with President Trump
Congressman Anthony Brindisi (NY-22) today joined a bipartisan group of members at the White House to meet with President Trump regarding the shutdown. Brindisi released the following statement after the meeting:
“Today I joined a...
Starting A Business in America
During the lifetime of most working people, they have thought about starting their own business because of the desire to be independent and free to control the events in their lives. There is no...
The Seven Dancers
by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne Mohawk
The long nights of winter are the time for storytelling among the Mohawks. During the planting, cultivation and harvest moons the people are too busy to trade stories and, it...
Introducing Emmie Pizarro and Your Asian Neighbor
My name is Emerita A. Pizarro. My friends call me Emmie. I am a Filipino-American, born and raised in Metro Manila and married to an African American man, born and raised in Utica. I...
Bathing The Infant Buddha
The ritual of bathing the Buddha is conducted every year on Buddha’s birthday. This practice has been inherited from the Buddha times and is still observed by Buddhists around the world The Origin Of...