Stevens Place memory of immigrant family and home
The Stevens family origins trace to Carmen Giangobbi who bought land near Syracuse about a century ago and built a homestead across from Jean Stevens's home on Thurber. In 1928 Barney Stevens forged Stevens Place enclave as descendants remember Sunday dinners, music, and family unity.
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Giangobbie
Stevens Place
Jean
Thurber
Carmen
Barney Stevens
Stevens
Nellie
Barney
Mary
Pauline
Berrardine
Edith
Immigrants seek land and roots in a blessed nation
A descendant, JEAN STEVENS, recalls her family’s view that Europeans came seeking land and a sense of belonging. She reflects on the idea of blessing and sharing abundance as part of America’s founding impulses.
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Europe
Jean
Neighbors clash over Remington Gardens and zoning in Outer Comstock
Longtime Eckel Building tenant Nell retires after 40 years at Nell's Alterations Shop while Jean ends a bank binder career in the Easy Washer plant area. Cosimo Zavaglia develops Remington Gardens and Newbury Commons across Thurber with 300 units, facing initial plan rejection and a lawsuit victory. Neighbors push for single family zoning despite the project and a 1987 study urging neighborhood zoning changes. Dick Case reports neighborhood notes every Thursday.
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Nell
Eckel
Jean
Cosimo Zavaglia
Remington Gardens
Newbury Commons
Thurber
Stevens
Remington
Vincent
Comstock
Moseley sues AT&T over alleged promotion bias in Syracuse
Natasha Moseley, an African American woman, claims AT&T and Lucent discriminated against her for race and gender by denying promotions despite strong reviews and perfect attendance. State investigations found evidence of discrimination and retaliation, and Moseley seeks 6 million dollars.
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Natasha Moseley
At&t
Syracuse
Moseley
Lucent Technologies
State Division of Human Rights
At&t and Lucent
Greene
Rodgers
Burke Stinson
Stinson
SSO Musicians Vote on Deal After Wage Cuts Dropped
The SSO bargaining team said wage cuts are off the table and members will vote Sunday after a 72 hour union waiting period. A tentative agreement was reached after 12 hours of talks with Board of Directors to consider the contract. Led by conductor Fabio Mechetti the orchestra will rehearse multiple times before Friday's Don Quixote and Die Ideale performance.
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Rose MacArthur
Orchestra
SSO
David Chambless Worters
American Federation of Musicians
Civic Center
Fabio Mechetti
Orchesta
Richard Strauss
Franz Liszt
Mechetti
Ley Creek station opens Thursday nights for residential debris
OCRRA announces Ley Creek transfer station on Seventh North Street Salina near I 81 will accept storm debris from 4 to 8 p m each Thursday in October for residential customers. Cash only payments. 10 dollar minimum waived. tipping fees 84 dollars a ton. lower rates for construction debris.
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Ley Creek
Seventh North Street
Salina
Interstate 81
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
Tom Rhoads
OCRRA
Jamesville
Airport Road
Amboy
Saturay
Church Seeks 20000 For Generator To Power Shelter
Delaware Street Baptist Church aims to raise twenty thousand dollars to buy a natural gas generator to power its building for an emergency shelter. The plan emerged after local Lutheran donors provided a gasoline unit, with church members and neighbors already rallying to a food pantry following the Labor Day storm.
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Cicero-DeWitt
John Carter
Abundant Life Christian Fellowship
Delaware Street Baptist Church
Dudley St
Buffalo
Central New York
Moysevich
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Borhood
Movsevich
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Nae
DeStefano
Ginetta
Christina
Carmen Giangobbi
Jean Stevens
Stevens Place Builders
City Polie
Dick Case
Suzanne Dunm
Rachel Bennett
Mike
Pulaski
State Fairgrounds
Geddes
Stit
Der
Kathy Greene
Mobeley
Lucent
Bill Price
New Jersey
Fortune
Fee
Price
Liverpool
MacArthur
Vicolin
Ser
Mokerstan
Eric Winter
Storm Reconstruction Services
Winter
Melvin Spady
Church
Delaware Street
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