Onondaga County is looking to ensure the stability of its 15 villages for the next decade.  County Executive Ryan McMahon says the renewed Enhanced Village Improvement Program aims to help them address public safety, neighborhood development, and other needs.  

A holiday concert this weekend will include music from a range of cultures, while also touching one of Syracuse’s most pressing problems – poverty.  “Christmas from Dublin” will be performed in the Palace Theater this Saturday.  Organizer Live Space Entertainment is working with organizations that help the homeless and families in need. 

The former head of key economic develop programs for Governor Andrew Cuomo, including the Buffalo Billion, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a federal judge Tuesday.  Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, who was convicted in July of bid rigging and other corruption charges, was also ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he backs a pay commission’s recommendation that he and the legislature receive a more than 60 percent pay increase over the next three years, which would make Cuomo the highest paid governor in the nation.

The Romaine lettuce recall from three weeks ago, right before Thanksgiving, is probably still fresh in the minds of many Central New Yorkers.  The shelves were bare at just about every supermarket and salads weren’t available at restaurants for at least a week due to e-coli contamination.