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Social media producer and features writer for @syracusedotcom | @newyorkupstate. Proud @StBonaventure grad. More coffee, please. 📰🖊

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There was only one career I dreamed of pursuing when I was a little girl: becoming a teller of true stories. And luckily, my dream came true.

I graduated from St. Bonaventure University's Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. A few months after graduating, I was hired by The Citizen — a nearly 200-year-old daily newspaper based in Auburn, New York.

Nearly four years later, I have found my journalistic stride covering crime…

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This Great Lake famed for bass, shipwrecks and beaches has been named America’s best lake

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| Syracuse.com Verified
A visit to this Erie-sistable lake in Upstate New York is always a shore thing. Lake Erie has been crowned the No. 1 lake in America by USA Today’s 10Best. It is the second time in two years that the magnificent lake, which touches New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, has been voted the best in the United States. Being crowned “best” wasn’t the only 2026 award Lake Erie earned from 10Best. Lake Erie has also been named the second-best lake for water sports in America.
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The best $2 dessert samples at Taste of Syracuse 2026, from ghost pepper ice cream to deep-fried Samoas

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| Syracuse.com Verified
Syracuse, N.Y. — I meant to only spend $20 at Taste of Syracuse. Really, I did. That, after all, was my sweet assignment for the 2026 edition of downtown Syracuse’s epic food festival: Find the 10 best $2 dessert samples on a $20 budget. But when I discovered the trio of dessert samples waiting prettily on refrigerated display from Eva’s European Sweets, the last stop on my Taste of Syracuse tour, I found it impossible to pick just one. Still, I have no regrets.
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This unusual new Upstate NY cafe is half coffee shop, half bank — and people have opinions

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| Yahoo Verified
Matcha, muffins and banking advice are all on the menu at a new, unusual cafe in Upstate New York. Capital One Café recently opened in Eastview Mall, a large mall in Victor, 14 miles southeast of Rochester. It marks the chain’s first location in Upstate New York. The cafe run by the banking giant is half coffee shop, half bank.
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