At age three, Zach Bogosian had a goal. He didn’t know it yet, not really, not at an age when watching the Zamboni is far more important than knowing the final score of your youth league game. Yet even in those earliest moments, the Massena, N.Y., native believes he had his lifetime goal lined up, set squarely in his crosshairs like an unsuspecting opponent about to be checked into the boards. "I can’t remember a time without playing hockey," Bogosian explains, "so it’s just something that has always been a part of me, of who I am. It’s what I love, so it makes sense that I’ve always had that dream. Read More

David Swanson calmly laid down the children's book he was reading, opened the door, and fell ten thousand feet. He smiled a rippling grin, and as his body careened towards the earth, he playfully somersaulted. After streaking through tufts of clouds, Swanson deployed his parachute and guided himself down like a hawk in descending spirals. With a shrill whoosh, Swanson came down from the sky, softly landing on a grassy field. Swanson is just one of the daring members of the Malone Parachute Club. Read More

He looks like Eminem. This inside joke between an outreach coordinator and his former professor is only skin deep. Yes, Pearson's outter appearance, when lounging, resembles that of the actor-rapper, but there is much more to him than meets the eye. Inside, Pearson is a kind-hearted, unselfish individual with a burning ferver for social justice. Read More

Once upon a time, beat poets wandered around the United States searching their artistic heyday. Plattsburgh was the place to bring a big change for a musician Will Scheifley. “I was a young guy just 21 years old,” Scheifley says. He came to Plattsburgh to start his new life. It was his determination after he was getting into trouble with his life and was losing ambition. “I got a good (place) and I am playing music now” Scheifley says.
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