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Doggone: While landmark hardware store closes today, owner to have role at new hardware place downtown

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 2d

The legendary rescue dogs of City Hardware: Ancient and irreplaceable Syracuse landmark business closing today. To read my Central Current column, with stunning Michelle Gabel images:

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 2d

City Hardware, legendary Syracuse neighborhood business, will be missed for countless wistful reasons when it closes today. What people might miss most of all? The famous dogs. My Central_Current column, but you've got to see the Michelle Gabel images: centralcurrent.org/doggone-whil...

The owner of a legendary business, beloved for the dogs that roam the aisles, will play a role in a brand-new downtown operation.

A Tiny Home for Good fights homelessness in Syracuse, one small house at a time

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Justin @justintyper1.bsky.social · 4d

More great independent journalism from the central current.

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 4d

Magnificent piece on work by ‘A Tiny Home for Good’ to provide longtime homes for those in dire need in heart of Syracuse … words by Janet Gramza, images by Michelle Gabel in The Central Current: centralcurrent.org/a-tiny-home-...

In a city strapped for answers to its housing crisis, one Syracuse nonprofit is trying to tackle a lack of housing stability.

A Tiny Home for Good fights homelessness in Syracuse, one small house at a time

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 4d

Magnificent piece on work by ‘A Tiny Home for Good’ to provide longtime homes for those in dire need in heart of Syracuse … words by Janet Gramza, images by Michelle Gabel in The Central Current: centralcurrent.org/a-tiny-home-...

In a city strapped for answers to its housing crisis, one Syracuse nonprofit is trying to tackle a lack of housing stability.

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 5d

So exciting you are all working together.

Over the last 18 months, Central Current contributors Michelle Gabel and Mike Greenlar captured images from Syracuse's housing crisis.

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 5d

Tremendous work by Central Current colleagues Mike Greenlar, Janet Gramza, Michelle Gabel on scope and consequence of housing crisis in Syracuse: centralcurrent.org/a-place-to-c...

A PLACE TO CALL HOME

Sean Kirst: In this city so rich in hoops history, why I asked my students to remember Lawrence Moten

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 6d

I was young sports columnist when I first met Lawrence Moten, who dedicated every game he played at @syracuseu to grandfather who mattered so much in his life, whose collect calls home used to be accepted by 3-year-old sister he missed dearly. My column for The @Central_Current:

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 7d

I teach storytelling to college students, how resonant achievement often involves memorable layers, & I’ve told all my classes, with emphasis: In town of extraordinary hoops heritage, remember lasting impact of Lawrence Moten. My Central Current column: centralcurrent.org/sean-kirst-i...

Columnist Sean Kirst remembers Syracuse University basketball legend Lawrence Moten, 53, who died on Sept. 30.

Bills make major strides in new stadium field grass, seat instillation

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 9d

First frost.

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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 10d

The next big thing to go in at the Buffalo Bills new stadium is the natural grass field surface. Workers began installing the first sod Tuesday, and about a third of the stadium’s seats are installed.

The next big thing to go in at the Buffalo Bills new stadium is the natural grass field surface. Workers began installing the first sod Tuesday, and about a third of the stadium’s seats are installed.

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Onondaga 'LakeBack' protest shades arrival of 'Seneca Chief' with history of harm

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 10d

Two hundred years to month after Erie Canal sliced through Haudenosaunee homeland, Tadodaho Sid Hill unfurls banner at Onondaga Lake, sacred to his people: ‘Return Maple Bay.’ Central Current story by Laura Robertson, Pat McaCarthy: centralcurrent.org/onondaga-lak...

As Central New Yorkers commemorated an ‘Erie Canal moment,’ the Onondaga Nation remembered the canal’s long legacy of Indigenous harm.

Syracuse's community grid will have landscaping. Can trees prevent air and noise pollution?

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 12d

The Mike Greenlar image on this piece by Deb Sur for The Central Current says it all: Imagine this devastated landscape - once #I81 is gone in downtown Syracuse - replaced by trees. centralcurrent.org/syracuses-co...

Trees can act as a second line of defense against pollutants from the community grid — but only with the right strategy.

An Oldsmobile 'time capsule' was buried at Artpark in 1975. New York won't let anyone dig it up

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 12d

Terrific piece by the great Steve Watson, so gifted at these tales: Fifty years ago, these guys buried an old Oldsmobile as a time capsule at Artpark. A half-century later, the state won’t let’m dig it up:

The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 12d

The plan was to excavate the station wagon 25 years later, in 2000. That never happened, and the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation still isn't budging.
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The plan was to excavate the station wagon 25 years later, in 2000. That never happened, and the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation still isn't budging.

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 13d

Dave Sage, an old friend and retired lead forecaster from National Weather Service in Buffalo, says one thing he loves about these high-profile Bills games in our magnificent autumn: Reminding millions of just how beautiful this region really is, especially right now. My column …

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 14d

The images of the great Mike Greenlar capture what several regional meteorologists say is simple truth: If you love being outdoors, the autumn weather we’re experiencing right now - including celestial September - is as consistently beautiful as they’ve ever seen. My column:

Sean Kirst: A farewell tribute to our Upstate September, 'the most perfect month you could ever see'

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 14d

Several CNY & WNY meteorologist friends say this point-blank: If you love being outdoors, our Upstate September was one of greatest, most beautiful months this region's ever seen. My Central Current column with stunning Mike Greenlar images: centralcurrent.org/sean-kirst-a...

Several Upstate meteorologists, rarely given to superlatives, say this September was a template of sun and beauty.

After a series of blows, Westfield banks on a return to grapeness

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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 15d

Westfield has held onto its identity, despite the loss of Welch’s corporate headquarters and a shrinking demand for Concord grape juice. To remain a "grape place to live," local leaders have had to innovate.
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Westfield was once dubbed the “grape juice capital of the world." Now, it's on the comeback.

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 15d

The 2014 leveling of this Fairmount landmark - on farm created by key engineer on Erie Canal - led to eviction of this family … & decision by one son to become lawyer devoted to helping powerless, which led last week to immigrant mother being freed to reunite with 3 children.

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SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, that house … just looking at it created a feeling of antiquity.

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 15d

It’s staggering - when you think of what that place represented - that there was no civic pushback against knocking it down.

'A lesson to everybody': How we lost the Genesee Theatre, in Westvale

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 15d

Much like the Genesee Theatre in Westvale. www.syracuse.com/kirst/2014/0...

A history of shortsighted demolition in greater Syracuse.

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Sean Kirst: Family's eviction from lamented Fairmount landmark ignited mission of immigration lawyer

SeanKirst @seankirst.bsky.social · 16d

The lessons of isolation taught by eviction from childhood home - a beloved landmark unexpectedly demolished - inspired CNY native’s career as Massachusetts immigration lawyer … who just helped free client from detention. My Central Current column: centralcurrent.org/sean-kirst-f...

Matt Gonnella used his family's experience being evicted to propel his career as an immigration attorney, Sean Kirst writes.