The beauty of Syracuse and surrounding towns, villages, parks and forests is the wonderful diversity of stuff to do! Downtown festivals, Iron-Girl Triathlon and Balloon-fest are just the tip of the proverbial ICEBERG (how apropos for Syracuse!). Well here’s something you may not have tried yet – sailing on Oneida Lake! Saturday and Sunday, May [...]
Downtown Living Tour May 19th 12-6 PM
May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We can’t help but get excited for the Downtown Living Tour - we are after all realtors- we make a living when people buy places to live. But what really gets us jazzed is the diversity of shelter that the greater Syracuse area has to offer and none better displayed then the array of city lofts, [...]
National Nurses Day May 6th
May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
May 6 is National Nurses Day, the kick off to a week-long recognition of nurses nationwide. In fact, nurses are recognized worldwide on International Nurses Day, which falls on May 12th of each year. My mother is 87 years old, so I’ve had plenty of opportunity to see how tirelessly these caregivers work! Sometimes they [...]
Westcott Events: Music, History, and Architecture
March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If you are looking for something interesting to do this weekend, the Syracuse Community Choir will be performing at the Westcott Community Center on Sunday 4/1 from 1-3 PM. Led and founded by Karen Mihalyi in 1985, the group is made up of a wide range of ages. The choir’s focus is on peace, justice, [...]
University Neighborhood Preservation Association
March 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Our guest blogger, Rebecca Shaffer Mannion, is the UNPA’s Executive Director. She is a University Neighborhood resident, and is dedicated to the community. It was supposed to be a 3-year commitment. My husband was to complete his MFA in Photography at Syracuse University and we were outta here. That was August, 1998. Flash forward [...]