Walgreens planned for West Taft, Buckley intersection
Gina Barletta 11/03/08
Big changes are in store for one of Clay’s busiest intersections.
Plans are in the works to build a 14,820-square-foot Walgreens pharmacy and drugstore at the northeastern corner at West Taft and Buckley roads. Its target opening date has not been determined.
One of the project’s biggest hurdles has been its appearance, still under discussion in the town planning board. A flat-roofed structure found in many communities around the country, including nearby Cicero was presented earlier in October, but board members rejected that initial design.
“We’re looking for something more than a box in the middle of a site,” stated Chairman Walter Lepkowski at the board’s Oct. 8 meeting...
CATEGORY: General Business
SU students make history in Clay
Melissa Renahan 11/03/08
For just under a decade, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University has opened its doors to the surrounding communities and unleashed its talent. Each fall, Newhouse’s Visual and Interactive Communications Department documents a town near Syracuse and this year's workshop focused on Clay. The annual workshop allows students access to both accomplished professionals and 72-hour submergence in their work.
This year the program was able to entice two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michel DuCille to be a workshop faculty member. He is currently the Assistant Managing Editor for photography at the Washington Post and was joined by Nikki Kahn and Preston Keres, both of whom are award-winning photojournalists with the Post...
CATEGORY: General Society
Clay town budget
Sarah Hall 11/03/08
Clay residents will see a nearly 20 percent cut in their town taxes this year, as promised by former Supervisor James Rowley during the police consolidation proposal.
Rowley, who resigned Oct. 13 to take a position with Onondaga County, attended Monday night¡¦s Clay Town Board meeting in order to present the budget he helped prepare.
¡§As promised during the consolidation proposal, we will deliver on the nearly 20 percent tax cut,¡¨ Rowley said. ¡§It¡¦s about $10.02 per $1,000 in assessed value. The savings are there, and they¡¦re real.¡¨
But, given the state of the economy, Rowley emphasized that the tax cut was a one-time thing.
¡§Things are terrible, as we all know,¡¨ he said...
CATEGORY: Government
