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Dr. Donald "Doc" Westee passed away Aug. 4 at the age of 94. As the Auburn community mourns the beloved veterinarian, The Citizen is republishing its 2015 profile of him.

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ELBRIDGE | A business billed as a cafe and community gathering center in Elbridge is shaping up for an early spring opening.

JORDAN | When Tara Olmstead Dennee started Stand Against Suicide in 2011, she hosted group meetings and housed merchandise out of her home.

State Sen. Michael Nozzolio, who has represented parts of Cayuga County in the state Legislature for more than three decades, won't seek re-election in 2016.

AURELIUS | Area students recently cooked up delectable dishes from diverse ingredients and learned their culinary handiwork benefited even more from teamwork.

SYRACUSE | Named after an Irish goddess of transformation and healing, Etain LLC is opening its most western medical marijuana dispensary in Syracuse Wednesday. The company, run by Amy, Hillary and Keeley Peckham, owns and operates two other dispensaries in…

WEEDSPORT | After the Blue Devils' initial flurry, the Warriors settled in for the long haul.

SKANEATELES | The Skaneateles and Moravia boys basketball teams don't play in the same conference, or same county, or even the same section.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to establish a paid leave program for workers is popular among New York voters.

A proposal to build a cell tower near an Auburn neighborhood is scheduled to be reviewed once again by the city's planning board on Tuesday.

SENECA FALLS | Even with her tiny stature and toothy underbite, Phoebe is the glamorous poster child behind a new Seneca Falls business: Phoebe's K9 Resort.

CORTLAND | Hat tricks are rare in hockey, which makes two hat tricks extraordinary.

AUBURN | The Crusaders’ schedule is unlike most teams.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a fiery conservative loathed by his own party's leaders, swept to victory in Iowa's Republican caucuses Monday, overcoming billionaire Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton and…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Thursday Night Football" will air on both CBS and NBC next season.

NEW YORK (AP) — After 15 years of near austerity, U.S. airlines are restoring some small perks for passengers crammed into coach.

February is Black History Month. I was visiting with Pauline Johnson, the great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, recently. She asked me what I was going to write about. I thought about the families who migrated here from Adams County in Pennsylvania…

SYRACUSE | As he rounded the final turn of the fastest skater competition, Matt Taormina’s grin nearly went ear-to-ear.

Growing up, Joe Librandi-Cowan didn't know Auburn Correctional Facility as a prison. He knew it as "grandpa's smokestack."

AURELIUS | The name of Fingerlakes Mall's new leasing initiative says it all: Support Local Business.

NEDROW | Coach Tom Green believes many of his wrestlers are peaking at the right time.

SKANEATELES | The Skaneateles girls hockey team fell one win short of its goal.

SYRACUSE | It's defense — not offense — that's winning games for the streaking Syracuse Orange, who are putting on a drive for an NCAA Tournament bid.

It’s that time of year again, when mutterings of weekend getaways and date nights are heard in our tasting rooms. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the wineries are gearing up for a weekend of sweets — and I don’t just mean…

Last January, Barry Crimmins was beginning maybe the most prolific year of his life.

AUBURN | Special teams can be the boon or bane of a team's existence.

SYRACUSE | The family of an Elbridge native is now in receipt of their relative's Purple Heart — a distinction that was almost 100 years in the making.

MORAVIA | Twelve area fire departments worked to extinguish a residential fire in southern Cayuga County on Thursday afternoon.

SKANEATELES | With sectionals just around the corner, Skaneateles girls basketball is rounding into form.

WEEDSPORT | Immediately after the final set, the attention turned to a banner.

AUBURN | The latest meeting of the Cayuga County Landlords Association was its largest yet.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John Scott, the career journeyman enforcer who was surprisingly voted into the NHL All-Star game by fans, said he got a call from someone at the league who tried to talk him out of playing in…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Had a hard time getting a ticket to a concert or sporting event? New York's attorney general says that's probably because more than half of tickets to many events are held for industry insiders or otherwise…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama created a new federal task force Thursday to accelerate cancer research, putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of the drive to streamline government efforts toward a cure.

AUBURN | They don't know when it will happen or how long it will take, but the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation presented its proposed plans for cleaning up the former General Electric superfund site to the public…

Social Security beneficiaries won't receive a cost-of-living adjustment this year, but U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants to change that.

The Schweinfurth Art Center's annual "Both Ends of the Rainbow" show always opens in January, but it's more appropriately described as a January-to-December show.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — With one simple remark after losing to North Carolina, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim paid the ultimate compliment to Michael Gbinije when asked whether Gbinije was tired at the end of the game.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Thirty years after the Concord High School class of '86 watched social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe and six astronauts perish when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart on live TV, a number of them have gone…

SKANEATELES | For whatever reason, the Skaneateles boys hockey team didn’t look like its normal self for most of the first two periods against Syracuse.

SYRACUSE | A lifelong New Yorker, all Chris Weidman wants to do is fight in his home state.

Cayuga County's monthly unemployment rate last month continued to fall from prior-year levels.

WEEDSPORT | Down by eight points with the final two minutes ticking down, the Warriors looked to rally.

UNION SPRINGS | A.J. Smith Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Janet Murphy is getting out of town this summer. Way, way out. She's getting 5,237 miles away from the quiet village nestled along Cayuga Lake's shores, to be exact.

SKANEATELES | For whatever reason, the Skaneateles boys hockey team didn’t look like its normal self for most of the first two periods against Syracuse.

AUBURN | Every year a Genesee Elementary School student learns a little bit about college: Names of colleges, why a college education has merit and how they might one day envision their future with a university degree.

Luke Witkowski showed little hesitation in getting his hands dirty.

JORDAN | Leslie Ahern laid out a challenge to her team at halftime, and the Eagles responded.