Shannon Walker was a professional dog trainer for years when a veteran named Kevin W. came to her wanting his personal dog, Sammy, to be trained as a service animal. “It was business as usual, but ...

Book Buddies, a reading program that teams up hundreds of volunteers with Syracuse elementary students, is expanding -- and it needs more buddies. The program, run through the United Way of CNY, ...

THEY THINK THE SHOOTINGS ARE RELATED. SO FAR NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED. A NEW PARTNERSHIP IN -- INVOLVING A NEW NONPROFIT. THEY ARE DOING THIS WITH THE DOLLS. KRIS: >>THESE ARE CALLED SHADOW BUDDIES ...

New hires struggle to feel connected to colleagues they rarely see face to face. One increasingly popular solution: match newcomers with buddies. This idea existed before the pandemic, but the boom in ...

Sitting on benches with books in hand, third-graders at Mark Keppel Elementary School read to first-graders, who sat and listened. The younger students also took turns reading while the third-graders ...