Now safely ensconced as the third wheel to co-anchors Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira on NBC-TV’s The Today Show, there was a time when Al Roker hailed from our neck of the woods, back during the early 1970s when he was attending school at SUNY Oswego and as a weather forecaster on WTVH-Channel 5. And for a very short time, Roker also put pen to paper as a Syracuse New Times cartoonist for the comic strip “Salt and Pepper,” which premiered in the Oct. 3, 1976 issue.

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Farewell...