It s not too often that the Utica Fire Department battles water instead of fire, but that was the case in East Utica.
The Utica Fire Department announced that a crew was helping to pump water out of a flooded basement in East Utica on Friday. During the course of the pumping of the water, firefighters made a surprising discovery.
While history has shown fire fighters typically save kittens who are trapped in trees, a Utica Fire crew made a surprising discovery of three tiny kittens in the flooded basement. The Utica Fire Department announced that the crew from Truck 2 found the kittens and were able to safely remove them from the building and safely transport them back to the station.
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a young Laotian named Vanh Dongsavanh made the brave decision to leave his ravaged homeland behind in hopes of finding a better life in the United States. In the early 1980s, he rode the first wave of refugees that entered the country and settled in Utica, one of the original resettlement cities that had been established nationwide.
After his arrival, he soon found work, initially at DeIorio’s Foods in Utica, and later as a packer and shipper at Meyda Tiffany in Yorkville, where he has remained for 25 years. Vanh met and married Michelle Tran, a refugee herself, and settled in East Utica. They had one child; a son, Jimmy, who grew up in the neighborhood and joined the Utica Police Department’s Community Outreach Team five years ago.
Kids can sign up to compete against UPD officers in new kickball league
Can local kids beat Utica police officers in a game of kickball? We’ll soon find out now that Utica Police Department has launched the Police & Community Athletic League.
Posted: Apr 22, 2021 1:57 PM
Updated: Apr 22, 2021 2:04 PM
Posted By: WKTV
Can local kids beat Utica police officers in a game of kickball? We’ll soon find out now that Utica Police Department has launched the Police & Community Athletic League.
Students in sixth through 12
th grades who live in Utica can sign up to join the league, which will meet every Wednesday in May from 4 – 6 p.m. at the East Utica little league field.
Sharry Whitney always will remember Clinton resident Richard Enders in his lawyer dress shoes walking across muddy cow pastures while filming the TV program Mohawk Valley Living.
Enders, 79, who died Thursday, hosted Mohawk Valley Living, which Whitney and her husband, Lance, produced since 2005 as a weekly program on WKTV and more recently as a monthly program.
Enders also was well known in the area as a lawyer, the Oneida County district attorney from 1971 to 1981, and star of the Players of Utica s “Scrooge, The Musical” for 28 years.
As host of Mohawk Valley Living, Enders always wore khaki pants and a blue shirt, an “everyman” uniform suggested by Whitney s husband. But he didn’t need them, she said.
Observer-Dispatch
After nearly two years since her death, the Bridgeport man who was convicted and pleaded guilty to the stabbing death of Utica teen Bianca Devins and later unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw that plea was sentenced Tuesday morning in Oneida County Court to 25 years to life in state prison.
Brandon Clark, 23, pleaded guilty last February to the second-degree murder of 17-year-old Devins in July 2019 in East Utica while on their way back from a concert.
Speaking before Clark’s sentencing, prosecutor Sarah DeMellier said Clark not only researched and planned Devins’ murder, but also recorded and posted footage online. We saw her fight desperately for her life. DeMellier said. There was no way she could have seen it coming.