Fireworks light up downtown Syracuse for 150th birthday celebration
Thousands turned out in Clinton Square led by Mayor Bernardi at 10:15 p.m. for a 15 minute, $22,500 fireworks display behind Armory Square. The crowd cheered as shells exploded to music. many watched from cars in closed South Clinton Street. Fran Tortora praised the show, while some felt the commemorative film fell short of expectations. Sharon Prouty recalled Syracuse’s 1948 100th birthday parade.
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Lee Prouty
Academy Place
Sharon Prouty
Genesee Country Village offers a 19th century day in Monroe County
A scattered collage of notes covers tourism in Genesee Country Village Monroe County with weather hints for the week and brief mentions of national events. Readers learn of a Fidel Castro Caribbean swing, a Ferraro Senate bid and rising salaries in top business schools alongside local Adirondack trapping hero Pat Benzo and a Futures classic round leader Anna-Jane Eathorne.
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Monroe County
New York
Deal How a starry eyed intern became a Starr witness
Mon ica Lewinsky, disguised in a blonde wig, begins a 48 hour odyssey that leads to signing an immunity deal with Kenneth Starr. The move reshapes Clinton era proceedings as Lewinsky shifts from target to cooperating witness under guidance from Stein Cacheris Hoffmann and Dash, with Starr's team poised for grand jury testimony.
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Old Wik Ae Wild Ody
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Cacheris
Sam Dash
Senate Watergate
Stem
William Ginsburg
Agencies Seek $6.5 Million More for Oswego Toxic Site Cleanup
The federal government asks two companies and a university to pay an additional 6.5 million dollars toward cleaning a Oswego waste site once rated among the nation’s worst. Tests show chemical pollution creeping toward Lake Ontario, despite 20 million spent since 1987 to contain a 15.6 acre parcel. The EPA still detects chemicals in creeks feeding the lake, raising drinking water concerns for Onondaga and Oswego counties.
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EPA says no risk to Lake Ontario drinking water from PCBs
An EPA official states recent tests show no reason to believe cereals pose a risk to drinking Lake Ontario water. In 1993 EPA found PCBs leaking from the site into Wine Creek and White Creek feeding Lake Ontario. Levels in sediments decline but remain high. creeks flow into the lake two miles from the intake tunnel near Oswego Harbor.
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