Riverfront Trail Extension Opens, Linking Downtown to the Valley The long-promised 3.4-mile extension opened Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting and a mass bike ride, closing the last gap in a 22-mile loop two decades in the making.
Eastside United Wins First State Soccer Title in Overtime Thriller A golden goal in the 97th minute gave the girls’ squad its first state championship — and gave the neighborhood a parade it has waited 40 years for.
Summer Arts Festival Returns to Clinton Square with 90 Artists The three-day festival is back downtown after two years in the suburbs, with a juried show, live printmaking demos and a night market that runs until 11 p.m.
Home Opener Sells Out as Mets Begin Season with 7–2 Win A sellout crowd of 11,071 watched the home team ride a five-run sixth inning past Rochester in the first game of the Triple-A season at the ballpark.
Volunteers Pull Three Tons of Debris from Onondaga Lake Shoreline More than 400 residents turned out for the annual spring cleanup, hauling everything from shopping carts to a 1970s refrigerator off the western shore.