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Elderly Woman Hangs Herself Due to Alleged Neglect by Nursing Home Staff It’s every adult’s worst nightmare. An elderly person goes into a care facility, but they don’t make it out alive. That’s what happened to Barbara Jarvis, an 84-year-old resident at the Van Duyn nursing home in Syracuse, New York. She was found dead in her room on December 13th of last year, and authorities are finally getting to the bottom of the situation after an ongoing thorough review. Investigating What Went ...

Left on her own in notorious Syracuse nursing home, elderly woman dies horrible death Updated May 10, 2021; Facebook Share She needed assistance getting to and from the bathroom, but nursing staff did not help her. Jarvis was found dead Dec. 13 after she fell and accidentally hanged herself when part of her hospital gown got caught on a bathroom door handle, according to the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office. The state health department cited Van Duyn for its handling of her care. Van Duyn�...

By Dianna Hawryluk May 3, 2021 A Syracuse elementary school principal has received top honors from the School Administrators Association of NYS. Van Duyn principal Eva Williams was named the 2021 Elementary School Principal of the Year. Williams is credited with helping raise test scores in both English and math, as well as engaging with the Van Duyn community on a regular basis.  

Syracuse City School’s Eva Williams named New York’s elementary school principal of the year Updated May 02, 2021; Van Duyn Principal Eva Williams has been named the 2021 New York State Elementary Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State. Williams was chosen for her “commitment to excellence, her dedication to meeting the academic and social needs of her students, and her connections with staff, families and the greater community,” according to a...

ASHEVILLE - A former lieutenant governor candidate, a long-time top county elected official and an influential racial justice scholar are asking a federal judge for leniency in the sentencing of ex-county Commissioner Ellen Frost, who was convicted of corruption. The dozen letters from former lieutenant governor candidate Terry Van Duyn, ex-Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair David Gantt, UNC Asheville political science professor emeritus Dwight Mullen and others were submitted by Fr...

Despite a worldwide pandemic, a Washington native physician recently took the opportunity to travel outside the U.S. to provide medical services as part of a mission program. Dr. Lindsey Van Duyn of Washington County Hospital and Clinics spent a week in Haiti last month to serve in a clinic in the town of Gramothe. Van Duyn has done previous mission work in Honduras and the Dominican Republic, so she had long been interested in going to Haiti. She says this clinic is open about five times a ye...

During day two of a trial in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law, Senate Republicans highlighted supportive comments uttered by Democrats when the General Assembly approved the law in 2018. “Lawyers for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a left-wing legal organization, have attempted to characterize the law and those who backed it as ‘racist,’ even though the law was sponsored by an African American Democrat,” according to a news release from Sen. P...

Trump’s presidency is over. So are many relationships. The people I interviewed generally thought that if Trump had never entered politics, their relationships wouldn’t have deteriorated as they did. They may be correct, but this obscures a longer-running trend that seems to be fueling relationship-ending political disputes. As political scientists have documented, over the past few decades, Americans’ party affiliations have become more strongly correlated with other aspects of who they ...

Why ‘Cuomo’s death order’ didn’t really cause NY’s nursing home carnage. A reality check Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 Dr. Howard Zucker, left, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, listens to Gov. Andrew Cuomo discuss the states preparedness for the spread of coronavirus during a news conference, Monday, March 2, 2020 in New York.Mark Lennihan | AP Photo Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. – To hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s critics tell it, March 25 is a dat...

A Passion for Cooking  The Hogans joined the restaurant industry later in their lives after more than 20 years in construction. While Matt had briefly worked in a restaurant earlier in his life, this would be Rachelle’s first outing into that world.  “If you would have told me 30 years ago when we got married, like, you’d be running a restaurant in the same town you bought your first house, I would be, like, ‘No way.’ I had never even worked in a restaurant,” Rachelle Hogan says.�...