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 June 14, 2026.
Upscale CNY village shocks residents with 76% tax hike; ‘Not everybody here has a lot of money’
Taxpayers in the lakeside village of Skaneateles are facing an unprecedented increase in village property tax that adds thousands of dollars to some residents’ bills. The 2026-27 village budget increases the amount of tax to be collected by a whopping 76%. That makes the state 2% cap on annual tax increases look as irrelevant as 39-cent gasoline during the 1970s.
With Destiny USA’s debt crisis growing by the day, a financial servicing company is trying to unload more than $480 million in troubled mortgage loans tied to the giant shopping mall. Destiny USA isn’t for sale. Only the loans are. But the effort to sell them, likely at a significant discount, shows that the mall’s debt troubles are not going away anytime soon…