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The basement utility room of Patrick Kraus’s bungalow in Syracuse’s Strathmore neighborhood is cluttered with paint cans, brushes, and jars of glittery powder. Every surface is covered in a patina of ...

When I was growing up, the freezer in the Frigidaire in our kitchen was my personal taxidermist. If I caught a fish I was proud of, there it would live sometimes for months, or at least until my ...

GNESEN TOWNSHIP — Brian Luoma can’t fish any more like he used to. Muscular dystrophy has robbed him of that passion, but he still remembers what they look like. Now the longtime avid angler has taken ...