April 19, 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympic Games are a few months away in London, and that means that an Olympic torch is progressing somewhere through the British Empire. It was 11 years ago that the Olympic spirit was felt in Utica as the torch passed through before the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
April 16, 2012 Utica during its history has been known as the Handshake City and is presently billed as the Renaissance City. We want to know what you would you call Utica if you could pick a new slogan. We have a few suggestions, some serious some silly, for you below.
April 14, 2012
Utica and surrounding communities will celebrating Memorial Day on Monday May 28. Here are when the parades are planned around town.
April 13, 2012 Outraged at the price at the gas pump? Maybe you have reason to be, the Utica-Rome area is paying the highest gas prices in New York State.
April 13, 2012 Here in Central New York we're a hearty and inventive people. Lawrence Deptola proved that when he allegedly attempted to rob the downtown Utica branch of Key Bank using a toilet plunger.
April 12, 2012 You probably don't give much thought to the names of the streets you drive down each day and where those names come from. But a geography teacher from Rome, Italy has and thinks that a disproportional amount of the world's streets are named after men. We decided to take a quick survey of the streets of Central New York.
April 6, 2012 Asking 'Where Does Our Money Go,' and 'I feel like a Child Left Behind' a group of Utica students are using this day off of school to put a civics class lesson into practice by 'occupying' the Utica City School offices on Memorial Parkway.
April 4, 2012 The Electric Company nightclub and bar on Varick Street in Utica is set to close on May 12.
Everyone knows Google Maps can be very useful for looking up directions on your computer, on your tablet and on your smartphone. But, realizing "we've long neglected one of the most popular computer systems ever sold," Google finally has a mapping app for your original 8-bit Nintendo from the 1980s.
March 29, 2012 There are a few cities in America known for Tomato Pie. Providence and Trenton both do versions of the dish. But nowhere is tomato pie celebrated than in Utica, New York. Here's a look at Utica style Tomato Pie.
March 17, 2012 A large crowd turned out for Saturday's St. Patrick's Day parade in Utica. While the parade took its regular route between Oneida Square and Columbia Street in Downtown Utica, the construction of the roundabout and the narrowing of Genesee Street brought crowds closer to the parade units this year. From our sister station, WIBX, here are more than 100 photos taken along the parade route.
March 13, 2012 Utica became the butt of a joke during the 'headlines' segment of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno recently. The newspaper clipping was for a charity Saranac beer tasting event that implied minor children wouldn't be charged for beer tasting. See the video after the jump.
