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THIS WEEK IN LOCAL HISTORY 2014 — ONE YEAR AGO June 16: The first morning commute affected by the closure through goes smoothly. June 17: Hundreds of friends and family cheer the return of about 130 members of the 10th Mountain Division to Fort Drum after a nine-month tour in Afghanistan. June 18: Oswego’s district attorney announces that the human remains found last week in the Oswego River were of Carol Wood, missing since 1996. June 19: Justin Dallas pleads guilty to murdering his estranged wife and another woman inside a Liverpool home last October. He will serve a 46-year-to-life term.

2010 — FIVE YEARS AGO June 14: Former Syracuse police officer Derek Backus is sen- tenced to one to three years in prison for seriously injuring two Liverpool teenagers in a drunken-driving crash four years ago. June 17: State Attorney General (and gubernatorial nominee) Andrew Cuomo speaks at the Fayetteville YMCA, announcing an initiative to enable social networking sites to eliminate child pornography. June 19: Neighbors and Onondaga County Sheriff deputies rescue the Poon family from a fire at Bayberry Circle.

2005 — 10 YEARS AGO

This view of the historic bridge that carried the over Onondaga Creek is off limits to the public because of safety concerns. A new park on top of the bridge will offer a view of the creek, but not the stone arches. (Sean Kirst / [email protected]) Abridgetoofarfromview Spc. Glen Culver, center, is greeted by his wife, Deidre, and daughter Naomi, 2. Sgt. Eugene Cruikshank, right, talks to his wife, Kelly, and family at Fort Drum after returning from Iraq. (The Post-Standard / Dick Blume)

for unsuspecting public June 15: The first of 2,000-plus soldiers who spent the last year in Iraq return to Fort Drum to cheering relatives. athan Lafferty enjoys in repairs to the bridge; much off. DOT spokesman Gene June 18: One of several bullets fired into a house strikes one of the best views SEAN KIRST of the work involved rein- Cilento said anyone on foot Nyquest Golden, 2, as he sleeps in his bed. He is in critical in Syracuse. He’s a forcing the patchwork from would be in danger if a motor- condition. [email protected] manager at the new more than a century ago. The ist lost control on the ramp, June 18: The air conditioner collection at the Ley Creek Trash NCafé Kubal coffee shop at project is all but finished, and danger intensified for onlook- Transfer Station sets a state record — more than 840 collected. Creekwalk Commons on Erie John Kivlehan, the city divi- ers admiring the bridge, with Boulevard. That means he sion engineer who supervised their backs to traffic. June 20: The first of 120 wind turbines arrive at the Port of spends the day looking out the the job, said workers created Limmiatis, the National Oswego. They will be erected on the Tug Hill Plateau and window at the National Grid a public overlook area that Grid spokeswoman, said her become part of the Maple Ridge Wind Farm. headquarters, also known as allows spectators to view the company has similar concerns June 20: The Syracuse School board unanimously approves the Niagara Mohawk building, creek, from a new and ornate on the opposite side of the hiring Robert DiFlorio as interim superintendent of schools. a stunning example of art deco called the canal “catastrophe” railing. creek. “Unfortunately,” she design. — shut down the statewide Kivlehan’s crews also set wrote in an email, “a perma- Yet Lafferty was startled to waterway. out a couple of limestone piec- nent viewing area would be a 2000 — 15 YEARS AGO learn another significant land- To repair it, the state es of the bridge that visitors challenge given the existing June 14: Onondaga County Legislature passes a $2.2 billion mark — a piece of the Erie quickly brought in hundreds can use as places to sit and safety protocols.” sales tax plan 14-10 in a party-line vote. Mayor Roy Bernardi Canal, built in the 1830s, that of workers. They soaked rest, stones that speak to the Still, it seems as if imagina- warns the plan could force the city to raise taxes and go deep- still supports city traffic — the wooden barges with oil indomitability of 19th-century tive engineers and designers er into debt and may derail the Carousel Mall expansion plan. exists about a half-block from and burned them to get rid workers who somehow — from the city, the state and June 16: Thousands of bees escape from a truck at a where he stood Monday sell- of the debris. In the tunnels with horses and pulleys — National Grid — looking at Chittenango rest stop on the Thruway. Several people are ing coffee. beneath the bridge, you can managed to move around that the entire landscape, in a spirit stung and three pumps are closed. For onlookers, it remains still see scorched remnants staggering weight. of collegiality — might even- absolutely hidden. of the flames. The workers Virginia Limmiatis, of tually come up with a creative June 19: After more than 20 years of debate, the Syracuse “Wow!” said Lafferty, when then patched the damage, a National Grid, said her com- way for viewing a unique and Common Council shown a photo of the canal patch that held well enough to pany is sponsoring interpre- historic bridge, a transporta- votes unanimous- bridge, with its elegant lime- endure the switch from barges tative signs that explain the tion landmark tied directly to ly to approve a stone arches. “I never even to trucks and cars when the importance of the site and the origins of Syracuse. $6 million reno- knew it was there!” canal became Erie Boulevard, “provide residents and visitors If there’s any way for it to vation plan for He said it “would be very in the 1920s. with an opportunity to experi- happen, here’s a good target . cool” if he could direct cus- Since then, this original ence the rich history of the date: Connors noted the Inland tomers to take a look at an Erie Canal bridge has contin- Erie Canal.” Connors said the Waterways International June 20: Twelve original part of the waterway ued to do its job in the heart signs also will suggest links association will hold its fire companies responsible for the growth of of Syracuse — even if few for viewing the bridge itself if World Canals Conference in wage a losing this city. people realized it. Connors you go online. Syracuse in 2017. Certainly, battle to save a While we’re not quite at inquired in the past about But the frustrating reality: it would be a nice touch if a Pulaski landmark that point, we may be getting finding ways to view the For now, if you stop by the functioning downtown rem- from a fire. The Firefighters try to save the Log Cabin Inn there. bridge, and was always told it site, there’s no way to walk nant of a world-famous canal Log Cabin Inn and Motel. (The Post-Standard / Al Campanie) For years, Dennis Connors would be impossible. Niagara the 15 steps or so required to could be seen and appreciated and Motel, built in — curator of history for Mohawk, and then National actually see the stone arches by international visitors. 1804, is declared a total loss. the Onondaga Historical Grid, fenced off private of the bridge from where Not to mention residents of Association — has quietly property on one side of the you’re standing. The shoulder . 1990 — 25 YEARS AGO worked toward finding a way creek. The other side serves of the West Street ramp, on As for Connors, he prefers June 15: The arrest of Douglas Lodge, a black gay rights for people to see the bridge. as a ramp for the state’s West first glance, resembles a walk- to emphasize the progress supporter, during an AIDS vigil brings charges of double bias Elements of it were built in Street arterial. way. But the state Department we’ve made. His dream is against the Syracuse police and a protest at the Public Safety the late 1830s, when laborers Last year, the city hired of Transportation put up signs that the bridge — the most Building. Lodge was charged with disorderly conduct for alleg- constructed the Erie Canal. contractors to do $4.4 million warning pedestrians to stay striking architectural element edly drawing on the sidewalk when told to stop. Known as a “culvert,” the along Onondaga Creek — stone structure — with three might someday turn into an June 17: A hundred golfers are sent fleeing from gunfire shot arches — was a 19th-century integral part of the Onondaga from the woods toward Westvale Golf Club. No one was hurt. solution to a significant Creekwalk. Police believe hunters were target practicing in the woods. obstacle, since it created a For now, he’s glad Central way to carry the canal across New Yorkers finally have an 1965 – 50 YEARS AGO Onondaga Creek. area for reflection at the bridge, June 14: A vigilante group begins patrolling the Salt City Even then, despite the a place to contemplate an Housing Project (2000 block of East Fayette Street) with night- beauty of its design, the bridge extraordinary and enduring feat sticks and helmets after muggings and a rape. was hidden beneath the walls of engineering that’s brought of mills and factories. together two sides of Syracuse June 16: Mayor William Walsh is elected president of the New In 1907, the span achieved since the city’s early days. York State Conference of Mayors. He uses the forum to ask for statewide notoriety: The wall “That’s a step forward,” more state and federal aid for urban areas. of a nearby mill collapsed, and Connors said of the new over- June 16: County Executive John Mulroy meets with U.S. the bridge could not support look, “because no one even Surgeon General Luther Terry. Mulroy plans to combine the the weight. Part of it caved in. knew the bridge was here county’s health services into one county health department. Water from the canal began before.” pouring into the creek with Sean Kirst is a columnist with June 17: City Health Department official John North tours such violence that barges The Post-Standard. Email him at Onondaga Creek in a canoe looking for sources of pollution were pulled into the hole. An old piece of stone from the canal bridge sits in a new park [email protected] or write to him entering the creek. He finds six sources of raw sewage and oil Miraculously, no one was on Erie Boulevard, where a viaduct carried the canal over in care of The Post-Standard, 220 from Oil City. killed, but the disaster — often Onondaga Creek. (Sean Kirst | [email protected]) S. Warren St., Syracuse 13202. — Post-Standard archives research by Johnathan Croyle

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