Each week, syracuse.com will look back at some of our most important and valuable journalism from the previous week. Here are six stories for the week of May 3, 2026.
I-81 project will tear up downtown Syracuse streets in coming months: What you need to know
Starting this summer, downtown Syracuse streets will be dug up to run a huge underground water line that will collect water from the roads rebuilt during the Interstate 81 project. The mile-long stormwater pipe, called a trunk line, will be perhaps the biggest invisible segment of the highly visible I-81 project. The line will run from Almond Street to Onondaga Creek and will include digging up sections of Water Street, Erie Boulevard East, Salina Street and Herald Place.
For Joey Spallina, Syracuse’s lacrosse star, it’s been a lifetime building for this moment
Joey Spallina was already playing against older competition when he was in kindergarten. He made ESPN’s SportsCenter at age 8. He became the No. 1 recruit in the country and owns an Instagram following of 42,000 people. He’s represented his country in world championships. He set the career points record at Syracuse this year, was picked No. 3 in the professional lacrosse draft and was named a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award, lacrosse’s Heisman Trophy. There’s just one thing left to do. The biggest thing yet.
How a rare scholarship brought 5 Mohawk siblings to Syracuse University
The typical Syracuse University legacy student attends the alma mater of a parent or grandparent — or both. But Shakoronhiokewen Jacobs is a different kind of legacy student. He followed in the footsteps of his brother. And his sister. And his other brother. And his other sister. Shakoronhiokewen, 23,is the fifth Jacobs sibling to earn a bachelor’s degree from SU on its Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship. His sister, Kahsenniiostha Jacobs, is graduating with a master’s degree…