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Syracuse Mayor Sharon Owens delivers her first State of the City address Thursday at Nottingham High School. (Scott Schild photo)
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Clay gets a $1 million boost to revive its waterfront, a step toward becoming entertainment destination: New York is providing the town of Clay with more than $1 million in grants to advance the town’s goal of turning its Three Rivers Point park into a waterfront community. Three Rivers Point off Route 57 overlooks the confluence of the Oneida, Oswego and Seneca rivers. Here’s what town officials envision for improvements.
Syracuse mayor pushes for housing, safer roads — and protecting the city’s immigrants: Syracuse Mayor Sharon Owens delivered a wide-ranging State of the City speech Thursday night, but she had an important point to make before diving into the nuts-and-bolts of her new administration’s priorities. With national tension boiling over President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics, the mayor stated clearly that Syracuse will defend its residents who came from other countries. That brought her the loudest ovation of the night.
4 Onondaga County towns are in NY’s top 100 for income: Nearly all of the towns and cities with the highest income levels in New York were in Westchester County or on Long Island, according to the new census data, but four towns in Onondaga County were in the top 100. Meanwhile, the city of Syracuse’s median income was near the bottom of the state. Here are the numbers…