Minoa News

Hunter White, of Bridgeport, just turned 12 May 1, so this is the first turkey season that he could hunt.

Participants of the Central New York Association of Music Teachers High School Vocal Competition include, from left, accompanists Michael Geiler and Sabine Krantz and winners Hank Sheehan, Jillian Carafa, Stephanie Andrew, Meghan Dorsey, Patricia Albright, Kristen Vollmer and Marshall Pokrentowski.

Witnesses described a frantic scene and close calls after an elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a small Virginia mountain town's parade.

Long after that first Neolithic colonisation, the flowering of the, "Great Island" led to a dominating Bronze Age culture.

Besides the obvious answer my wife June came up with, "Why not antiques?" , it was because we both enjoyed antiques and had built up a large, diverse mixture of items ranging from a Minoan oil lamp to mid-1950s British Royal Commemoratives.

A few years ago I predicted to some friends that ancient DNA would transform our understanding of the human past.

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA taken from 4,000-year-old Minoan skeletal remains suggests that Minoan civilization was created by the descendants of the first population to reach Crete some 9,000 years ago , when migrating farmers left Anatolia and spread into Europe.

John Kuryla, president of the North Syracuse Teachers Association, speaks at a rally this afternoon in front of district headquarters on West Taft Road.

There are plenty of outstanding teachers in New York. Six of those teachers were honored Friday for excelling in STEM education.

Alyssa Cregan, an 8th grader at Onondaga Central Jr./Sr. High School, in Nedrow won a national cl illustrated poem contest sponsored by the American Chemical Society.

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.