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In today's newsletter:

  • How Syracuse's Vegfest is keeping the city's vegan scene thriving
  • How Archbold Stadium's opening reshaped Syracuse University and stirred national controversy
  • Inside Syracuse Law's first big test of NIL negotiators

Also on today's calendar: Join Rock Voices, the community choir that ONLY sings rock music! and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Cloudy, with a high of 65 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly cloudy and comfortable, temps: high: 74, low: 59.
  • Thursday: Cloudy and warm, with a high of 78 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Syracuse vegans build 'like-minded' village at Vegfest (dailyorange.com) — Syracuse's vegan community packed the State Fairgrounds' Science and Industry Building on Sunday for the seventh annual Vegfest, sampling plant-based comfort foods and browsing local vendors. Organizers say the nearly 1,000-person turnout shows veganism is thriving here despite recent restaurant closures, and they hope the free festival keeps building a welcoming, tight-knit scene for both vegans and the vegan‑curious.
   

2. When it opened in 1907, SU's Archbold Stadium was dubbed the 'greatest athletic arena in America' (syracuse.com) — Syracuse readers get a deep look back at the 1907 opening of Archbold Stadium, when Syracuse University unveiled what many called the nation's greatest athletic arena and crushed Colgate 28–0. The story also revisits how SU's powerful benefactor John D. Archbold and Chancellor James Roscoe Day pulled Syracuse into a national fight over Standard Oil, presidential power, and "tainted" money.
   

3. College of Law hosts 1st-ever Syracuse NIL negotiation competition (dailyorange.com) — Syracuse University's College of Law turned Dineen Hall into a national hub for sports law Friday and Saturday, hosting its first-ever NIL negotiation competition. Sixteen teams from across the country tackled realistic sponsorship and transfer-portal scenarios, while organizers highlighted Syracuse's deep alumni ties to college athletics and the fast-evolving gray areas of name, image and likeness deals.
   

4. Counties across N.Y. place families in hotels with problems (spectrumlocalnews.com) — Families placed by Onondaga County at the Budget Inn in Syracuse have reported troubling conditions, including rodents and dirty facilities, even though recent city and county inspections found no major violations. The story widens out to show similar inspection gaps and unsafe conditions at motels across New York that house homeless families, raising questions about oversight and transparency.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hop Squatch! (Thank you Terri R. for sending it in!)
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