CNY centers restrict use of devices

By Aaron Gifford

Last year, Cazenovia Children’s House teachers asked the parents of school-age children to vote on whether the use of hand-held electronic gaming devices, cell phones and MP3 players should be restricted. After reviewing various opinions, administrators banned the devices.

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By James MacKillop

It all starts here,” said presenter David Lowenstein, now of Cazenovia SummerStage. Lowenstein was one of the most experienced voices at the fifth annual Syracuse Area Live Theatre Youth (SALTY) Awards, on May 23. Once a mainstay of Syracuse community theater companies, Lowenstein rose to become a successful Broadway performer, and recently he has returned to the area to work for the Syracuse University Drama Department and for Cazenovia College.

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By Reid Sullivan

Parents submitted 94 charming photos of their children to the sixth annual Family Times Cover Kid Contest, and the judges had a difficult series of choices to pick a single winner in each of the four categories for young people ages 2 to 16.

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By James MacKillop

A hearty, boisterous crowd turned out at Cicero-North Syracuse High School Auditorium on June 6 for the presentation of the SALTY (Syracuse Area Live Theatre Youth) Awards and a series of scenes from shows that rivaled the best that any company put up all year.

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By Debbie Pearson

Over the past three years, the Syracuse Area Live Theatre Youth (SALTY) Awards have grown and evolved. We have changed the awards to enable more people to participate in selection of winners.

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Camp Fair 2009 gave some 50 summer programs, and residential and day camps a chance to talk to families and potential participants and help them make plans for the long vacation.

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By Josh Blair

Looking for a special gift for a child? Area independent toy stores offer unusual items and personal service not available at your typical big-box store.

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By Tina Schwab

Proud parents submitted 106 photos of their children in Family Times’ fifth annual Cover Kid Contest. Children ages 2 to 12 were eligible to compete in one of four age categories.

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Family Times Takes Strides

“Let me know if I can do anything.” It’s the empty, yet sincere, offer most of us make to family or friends struggling with illness or grief. You sign up for e-mail updates, or you make that long-distance call but, too often, one feels powerless to help.

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By Reid Sullivan

The Syracuse area now has a new cloth-diaper delivery service, after going without since Cottontails folded at the end of 2004.

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By Tammy DiDomenico

Syracuse is home to a wealth of theatrical talent, much of it nurtured in area high schools and local community theater companies. The area’s theater community gathered on May 18 to honor its youngest stars, and those who work with them, at the SALTY (Syracuse Area Live Theatre Youth) Awards. The ceremony was held at the New Times Theater on the State Fairgrounds in Geddes.

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Taking a bow on SALTYs night

Talented local young people get a chance to shine on Monday, May 19, when the Syracuse Area Live Theatre Youth (SALTY) Awards are presented.

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We make no bones about it—at Family Times we like winning awards, and we were pleased to land a couple in the most recent national competition with peer publications.

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By Josh Blair

On a recent Saturday afternoon, near-deafening squeals of delight resonated throughout the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (MOST). A descent to the lower level revealed the uproar’s source: dozens of children climbing, crawling, running, sliding and jumping in a nine-level, 40-foot-high maze.

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Judges pick Cover Kid winners

By Reid Sullivan

Most parents aren’t professional photographers—but when it comes to taking stellar shots of their children, they’re often the best people for the job.

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By Reid Sullivan

The way she tells it, Maggie Lamond Simone never intended to write a children’s book. “I’m a columnistt—I get in, I get out.”

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By Gina Roberts-Grey

The recent decision to locate a public umbilical cord blood bank in Syracuse will give area parents a chance to donate a valuable product of birth that might otherwise become medical waste.

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