Editor: Jack Norton with the Vera Institute of Justice just published a piece about anti-mass incarceration activism in Binghamton. He highlights the groups like JUST, Truth Pharm, and PLOT that are putting in the work to dismantle mass incarceration. It’s a piece that’s very sensitive and respectful of the challenges our community faces and the […]

by Rick Sprout For many years the Binghamton-Johnson City Sewage Waste Water plant has been operating with a physical facility that does not meet the State & Federal requirements for the treatment of waste water. Workers at the plant struggle daily to overcome the plant’s shortcomings in order to maintain the very basic minimal necessary

The 5th Annual Mural Fest was held on August 24th at Cheri Lindsey Park on Binghamton’s Northside. Seven eye-popping mural panels painted at Mural Fest will be donated to Theodore Roosevelt School. The Dept of Public Art sponsored master artists and recruited volunteer artists to complete the murals in one afternoon. The theme of the

 Local author to premiere full and unique audiobook on WBDY radio Mixing a traditional audiobook with the ambience and effects of a radio dramatization, Awake: A Vampire Tale is a coming-of-age story by AmarA*jk Binghamton, NY – August 25, 2019 – Locally based artist and theatrical designer AmarA*jk is bringing a new experience to the

Broome County is a national outlier in discriminatory jailing—having the HIGHEST incarceration rate in the entire state of New York. The incarceration rate of Black people in Broome County is more than TEN TIMES the rate of whites—which is DOUBLE the national average. The crisis of mass incarceration and criminalization has devastated our families, friends,

Truth Pharm to host Trail of Truth for International Overdose Awareness Day (Binghamton, NY) In observance of International Overdose Awareness Day, Truth Pharm is hosting our 4th annual Trail of Truth Memorial March on Saturday, August 24, 2019. While we saw a decrease in the total number of lives lost in 2018, we have seen

Fifth Annual Mural Fest at Cheri Lindsey Park Saturday The Dept. of Public Art (DPA) invites children and adults to “Come Paint With Us” at the 5th Annual Mural Fest at Cheri Lindsey Park on Saturday August 24th from 12-4 pm. DPA members have upcycled cardboard into a Box City, dinosaurs, a carousel and animals

TO BRING HUNDREDS OF PERFORMERS, THOUSANDS OF ATTENDEES TO HISTORIC ABEL BENNETT NEIGHBORHOOD Binghamton, NY– On Sunday, August 25, Binghamton Porchfest celebrates five years of music and community on the West Side with its biggest installment yet: over seven hours, 163 musical performances will take place on 53 residential porches, stoops, and yards across the

Out of the mouth of babes After a year of random citizen outrage from compassionate citizens about Central American asylum seekers, it is reported that President Trump had an Oval office full of refugees from Myanmar, Uighurs in China, and Yazidis in Iraq and he revealed a stark lack of familiarity with the problems they