A Utica school teacher who works in the Cornhill neighborhood is shining a positive light on a negative assignment given to Whitesboro High School students.
Saying that Roosevelt School was becoming unsafe and structurally unsound, the city of Utica fast-tracked the process of bringing the former elementary school down.
Utica's Johnson Park Center is holding a Back to School/Say No to Drugs party today at the center at Johnson Park (Square and West streets) in Cornhill.