Just a quick note to memorialize the passing of Centro’s 178 Fairmount Hills route, formerly known as the 4G. Since the time of Christ, it served the far-flung upper reaches of the southeast of the Town of Camillus, but fell victim to Centro service cuts effective Monday. I forgot this was going to […]

I know where it’s hiding.
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Keep driving north. Run the red light. You’ll find it.
(Note: This is only for those who have exhausted the entertainment possibilities of the Zombie Outbreak Simulator.)

Serving the cause of suburbia since October 28, 1959.

They closed down Pep Boys for this?!

Revisiting an old topic — the late, lamented Genesee Theater: Cinema Sightlines has recently updated its page about the theater with even more amazing old photos of the film-promotional efforts of George Read. One of these photos has the theater’s big glowing clock pictured in it (alas, only from the side). I wonder […]

Quick link: Fairmount Glen Miniature Golf has a website (”I did not know that!”), with a history page that has some pictures of its old course at the current location of West Genesee High School, and some old pictures of its current location circa 1960.
(Sorry for the light posting lately. Hoping […]

Last spring, residents of the near western burbs of Onondaga County had a little problem with something they called “The Noise.” After many months of forum-based fretting, angry phone calls, e-mails, and media coverage, the annoying sound finally disappeared (for the most part). Syracuse Energy Corp. (Suez), the co-generation plant in Solvay, […]

And you thought the Westvale Plaza sign was bad… A few weeks ago, Benderson decided to whisk us all back to the rockin’ ’80s and replace the old Fairmount Fair sign with this orange beauty. (Yes, that appears to be plaid or some kind of waffle weave behind the barely legible lettering — which […]

On the same day that I posted about my grandmother’s purchase of a home in Fairmount, two girls discovered the body of a homeless man who apparently died of exposure sometime last week, “in the woods” behind the Fairmount strip. (”The woods” is misleading, it’s more like an empty lot with trees on it… […]

I woke up this morning to read a small item in the PS Local section about Holy Family Church being robbed yesterday in broad daylight, right after a service. It appears some punk with a BB gun stole the collection plate. Between this, the Burger King robbery and the rogue bear, maybe […]