Samadee knew it was time. Listening to former New York City Mayor Ed Koch call for the formation of a New York Uprising, taking the Albany Clown Show head on in what the 85 year old is calling his “Last Hurrah” politically, Samadee knew the time was right for waging the campaign for elective office he had sought for more than four decades...

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TAGS: A Mango Snapple Party, New York City Mayor Ed Koch,George Kilpatrick,Westcott Nation,Green Party,Samadee,City Eagle,syracuse city scuffle,Liberal Party County Committee

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The county Bureau of Aging and Youth’s Media Award and the Syracuse Press Club’s Public Affairs Television Award are presented each year to media professionals for notable achievements in their fields. But last week, at awards banquets where each of the recognitions were observed, two 14 year olds answered the calls to accept the framed certificates. Although still in their early teens, Ana-rachel Richardson and Anna Quackenbush are seasoned veterans of Media Unit activity, as cast members in an average annual 60 original stage performances on topics of teen concern, and alternating as host of the weekly Rough Times Live, broadcast on cable television systems in Syracuse, Binghamton and New York City...

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TAGS: Rough Times Live, Media Unit ,Bureau of Aging and Youth’s Media Award,Syracuse Press Club,Ana-rachel Richardson,Anna Quackenbush,District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and then,Police Chief Frank Fowler,Karin Franklin-King, Syracuse Public Affairs Television Award

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The football field at Kirk Park is chain locked on a Thursday evening, but the thick grassy expanse between the field and the street is the site of one of the twice a week practices for the Syracuse Shock. They gather slowly, cars pulling into a narrow parking lot, no one rushing to don their pads for the two hour session.


They have been hitting for a couple of weeks, but, as one coach announces, “This is Night One. We’re gonna see who’s the men and who’s the little boys.” As six o’clock approaches the coach’s voice becomes more insistent, “Let’s go, two minutes.”


Then, “Let’s go, helmets on.” Calls of “C’mon,” continue to the handful who tarry, seemingly reluctant to join the jog which almost finishes one lap around the field...

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TAGS: Walt Shepperd,Syracuse football,football field Kirk Park,Shock hits on night one,Syracuse football Shock,Greg Hallinan,Express, Shock, Vipers

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