Meet Dr. Rich O’Neill, the psychologist who touts SUNY Upstate’s services on radio and television

In season through early summer, this fiber-filled fruit provides a welcome respite from apples

Shop Syracuse Week is back, asking gift buyers to think outside the big box. The Small Business Saturday initiative may be armed with a spiffy television ad campaign, a marketing strategy and oodles o

From downtown rooftops to urban back yards, the Save the Rain effort is spreading like an Antarctic glacier. Since the initiative really got going in late 2009 under a court order, it has seen 50 distinct green infrastructure projects implemented, all with the goal of retuning rainwater and snowmelt to the ground instead of the sewer system.

In the Delicious Irony department, a group of female impersonators is preparing for an annual fundraiser for women undergoing cancer treatment that are likely feeling less than womanly.

Since May, Syracuse has had its own taste of Paris right inside Shed C at the Regional Market. The Sweet Praxis began selling macarons every Saturday and shoppers have responded with curiosity and by purchasing the treats.

Not to be confused with the American notion of a sticky sweet coconut-covered macaroon, the French macaron provides a tasty morsel, whether sweet or savory. With a newly published cookbook, and a decent amount of practice—meringue can be tough to conquer—you can make them at home.

The pollutant in that deicer is ethylene glycol, the same ingredient in antifreeze. In July 1993, the state Department of Environmental Conservation issued a permit to the city to study the chemicals that run off of airport property, including into the creek.

The three middle school boys laugh as they slip and slide, their waders filling with water from Bear Trap Creek. They measure the width of the stream before each, in turn, drops a tennis ball into the water at different points downstream, while an adult times how long it takes each ball to travel 10 feet.

Seems no entity is immune to the usual Syracuse doom and gloom, not even a sports team that gives us a reason to leave the house on a cold winter night. Other teams have succumbed to the fail culture. But not the Syracuse Crunch, which, with this 18th season, has established itself as the hockey franchise to beat locally.