DICK CASE

Post-Standard Columnist on News in Syracuse and CNY

• Book opens up images of our past
"It was an interesting discovery process," Dennis Connors is saying.

• Inner Harbor project remains empty wish
Is this a good time to start a major construction project?

• On Townsend Street, the grind goes on
There's a new sausage-maker on North Townsend Street.

• Early area history hides in grove of trees
Jane Tracy and I walked into the woods off of Onondaga Road (Route 173) the other day and into a small pocket of history.

• Skip the study; just take a stroll downtown
The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency recently voted to kick in $12,000 to a study of downtown Syracuse's retail market. The whole study, by the Buxton Group of Texas, costs $80,000.

• North Side exhibits rich mix
The North Side of Syracuse is sitting for its portrait.

• This little town does voting right
The town of Fenner, just east of Cazenovia, is the place where voters show up to vote in scruffy farm boots, straw stuck to their jeans and dirt under their fingernails.

• Too many bookings for hotel plans
Is this a good time to put up a new hotel in Syracuse?

• Makeovers start for Five Sisters
The beleaguered Five Sisters rehabilitation project is on again.