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07/31/2026

ARTS | The 18th annual Hamilton International Film Festival brought together filmmakers from Portugal, New Zealand, Mexico, Ireland and beyond at the Hamilton Movie Theater from July 20-26. Sponsored by Slater Brothers Entertainment, the festival featured documentaries, dramas, thrillers, horrors, comedies and student films.

Film screenings were followed by question-and-answer sessions. Directing and production team members gave insight into the films’ creation. For example, after the screening of the series’ first film, “Her Game is Hardball,” director Mark Durand shared that his inspiration came from his daughters and their love for baseball — one daughter narrated the documentary, while the other chose the music. He said it was an eight-year creative journey.

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📝: Emma Lepkowicz
📸: Emma Lepkowicz

06/27/2026

NEWS | Travis J. Longo, 46, the former vice president of the Cazenovia Central School District Board of Education, resigned from his elected position on June 22 and remains jailed without bail on state and federal charges involving child sexual abuse material and sexually explicit communications with a minor.

New York State Police arrested Longo on June 18 on four counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Investigators determined he had engaged in a pattern of sexually explicit communications with a child under 12 years old.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court alleged that Department of Homeland Security investigators found child sexual abuse material on Longo’s iPhone 17 Pro Max, including images and videos depicting infants. The federal charges carry a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years per count.

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📝: Chloe Liversidge and Joshua Repp
📸: Wikimedia Commons

06/12/2026

NEWS | Burt Marshall, the Hamilton businessman convicted in April of running a decades-long Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison in Madison County Courthouse on Thursday, June 11.

Marshall, 74, pleaded guilty in April to grand larceny, securities fraud and scheme to defraud. Prosecutors say he stole more than $90 million from nearly 1,000 investors over three decades, promising an 8% annual return on investments he claimed were backed by Madison County rental properties. Victims have recovered just four cents on the dollar.

Judge Rhonda Youngs imposed the sentence, which included a summary of several letters by Marshall’s victims recounting their suffering.

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📝: Chloe Liversidge
📸: Chloe Trofatter

05/25/2026

The Colgate Maroon-News congratulates the entire graduating Class of 2026 and is especially grateful to our seniors for their reporting, leadership, and dedication to the paper. 🗞️🗞️

Now, just over a week after graduation and with time to reflect, The Colgate Maroon-News Class of 2026 shares final thoughts on their time telling the Colgate story.

05/15/2026

One of our favorite print 🗞️ sections is now digital 🧑‍💻. The Maroon-News presents THE BLOTTER 🚨 featuring every incident called into CAMPO 👮‍♂️ this semester.

The Blotter is a longtime section of the paper highlighting incidents, events, and other happenings around campus each week.

So… how many incidents did you cause? 👀

🎨: Chloe Liversidge

05/05/2026

BAKER’S DOZEN | To some, physics may be a daunting subject, but for Colgate University senior Christopher Gross, physics is an invitation to explore some of the most extreme and mysterious phenomena in the entire universe.

Using a framework called Anti-de-Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory correspondence, Gross studies how a higher-dimensional model of spacetime can be used to explain the behavior of extremely hot, dense matter such as quark-gluon plasma.

By applying this approach, his thesis explores how properties such as viscosity and energy transfer emerge in these extreme systems — think black hole cores and particle accelerators — offering a new way to study phenomena that are far too complex to study directly.

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📝: Devika Oldfield
🎨: Printed with permission of Christopher Gross

05/01/2026

NEWS | The Colgate Political Review (CPR) is back — and its founders say it is less of a revival than an entirely new organization. After brief, unsuccessful runs in the early 2000s and again before COVID-19, the review relaunched in December 2025 with roughly 100 members, a dozen section editors, a print edition on the way and an interview with a sitting congressman already under its belt.

Senior Bobby Patch, current co-editor-in-chief, launched and organized the reestablishment of the review alongside senior Ciara Anselm, its other co-editor-in-chief. (Anselm also serves as head commentary editor for the Maroon-News.)

When Patch looked around Colgate’s campus, he noticed a gap: nearly every elite peer institution had a dedicated undergraduate political publication.

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📝: Sophie Karbstein
🎨: Bobby Patch

04/27/2026

NEWS | The Depot Antique Gallery opened on 11 Lebanon St. this March, replacing Evergreen Gallery and Gifts after 35 years of business. Open Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Hamilton location is the sister store to their Bouckville location, which is open seven days a week.

Manager Olivia Coyle emphasized that while the Hamilton location is smaller, it was opened with the hope of expanding the company’s reach.

“This location is a little smaller than our flagship store in Bouckville, which is 7000 square feet,” Coyle said. “But the goal of opening here in Hamilton was to fill a void in the antique and vintage market.”

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📝: Ronan Valle
📸: The Depot Antique Gallery / Facebook

04/21/2026

COMMENTARY | It came that time of day on a Saturday morning when I, drowned in boredom and procrastination, decided to search Colgate University on TikTok. To my lack of surprise, I was met with a mere handful of videos associated with our school and an even smaller number from active students. Yet, while this result was expected, I pondered the chances of any Colgate student maintaining a consistent micro-influencer status associated with our university, because if they have, I and many others have not been made aware.

It was a culmination of these circulating thoughts that led me to a somewhat basic “breakthrough” conclusion: Colgate needs a student influencer. As for the type of influencer Colgate needs, well, my mind only landed on one example. Most individuals who keep up with the constant rise and fall of the influencer world have certainly heard of the name Alix Earle.

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📝: Sophie Lalas
📸: Unsplash.com

04/18/2026

NEWS | Hamilton’s new Kendrick Apartments are now open, offering Colgate University faculty and staff a long-awaited housing option in the village.

The Hamilton Initiative, the group behind Kendrick’s development, has invested more than $30 million to address community needs in Hamilton, N.Y., over the past two decades. Through a combination of strategic investment and long-term property management, the Initiative has played a significant role in revitalizing the village center by maintaining several key buildings that contribute to Hamilton’s economic and social development.

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📝: Kennedy Glinn
📸: Kennedy Glinn

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