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Look at any of the photographs taken during Jenna Hinman's pregnancy, and one fact is clear: The Port Byron native could not wait to be a mother.

In a fall photo, Jenna sits in a rocking chair and holds two small, painted gourds up to her stomach 鈥� illustrating her two twin girls.

As she moved from trimester to trimester, Jenna took a series of photos posing from the side to track the progress of her growing baby bump. In multiple shots, her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Brandon Hinman, grins widely as he kisses or puts a protective hand on her stomach. In another photo, Jenna proudly poses next to the two cribs which will eventually hold her baby girls.

On March 3, Jenna and Brandon realized they were going to meet their daughters earlier than they had expected.

About 10 weeks before her due date, Jenna went into premature labor and was rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital in Watertown, about 20 minutes away from Fort Drum, where Brandon is stationed.

The 26-year-old woman gave birth聽via an emergency cesarean to twins Kinleigh Ann and Azlynn Mary 鈥� who, though healthy, were quickly taken to the neonatal intensive care unit for treatment.

Jenna only enjoyed a short visit with her girls before it became clear the young mother was not OK.

After labor, Jenna started having difficulty breathing. When she started to cough up blood, she joined her babies at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, where doctors made a shocking discovery: Jenna was suffering from choriocarcinoma, a rare form of cancer.

She was placed into a medically induced coma, and onto a machine that did the work her lungs were unable to do.

Three weeks after they entered the world, Jenna had still not been able to hold her babies.

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"Hanging in there."

That's how Brandon responded Wednesday afternoon when he answered the phone and was asked how he was doing 鈥� sounding tired, but hopeful.

Brandon, a 2002 graduate of Weedsport High School, said he met Jenna Blaisdell while visiting Curley's in Auburn. He was visiting home after graduating from college, while Jenna, who graduated from Port Byron High School in 2005, was hanging out with friends.

"She's the best person I've ever met in my life. She actually changed my life and saved my life," Brandon said. "I owe her everything."

After 18 months together, Brandon and Jenna were happily engaged. In December 2010, before Brandon was deployed to Afghanistan, the couple tied the knot.

"It was hands-down the best decision I've made," Brandon said.

The couple 鈥� who currently call Fort Drum home 鈥� had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first children.

Much has happened in the nearly three whirlwind weeks since his wife was diagnosed with cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society, choriocarcinoma is a form of 鈥� a group of rare tumors that start in the cells that develop into a placenta during pregnancy. It is rare, and spreads quickly.

Although the cancer sometimes forms in women with normal pregnancies, it is more often found in a mass that forms in the womb during molar or ectopic pregnancies, or following miscarriages.

By the time doctors discovered Jenna had choriocarcinoma, the cancer had spread beyond her womb, riddling her body with tumors. A chest infection that caused Jenna to bleed internally and prevented her lungs from functioning further complicated the young mother's condition.

To save Jenna's life, doctors formed an aggressive treatment plan. While heavy doses of chemotherapy attack the choriocarcinoma, a machine does the jobs her ailing lungs cannot currently perform.

Wednesday, Brandon said the plan seemed to paying off.

"Jenna is slowly, slowly, slowly getting better," he said. "We're heading in the right direction."

Brandon said Jenna's lungs were "finally working" 鈥� doing 30 percent of the work while the machine did the rest. Doctors hoped to gradually turn down the machine and ease back her lungs into full functionality.

Once her lungs start working independently, Brandon said, the doctors will consider waking Jenna up.

"That's the goal 鈥� to get the lungs going to and start fighting the cancer," he said.

But hours later, Jenna's health took an unexpected turn.

According to the moderators of , a community support page created on Facebook, Jenna was in critical condition and rushed into emergency surgery. She survived the night, and eventually stabilized.

"It was an incredibly scary and a rough time for the family," one of the moderators wrote. "The doctor had informed us that this would be a rollercoaster ride, and it certainly has been."

But Jenna, the moderator wrote, "proved once again that her will to live is way greater then any obstacle that comes her way."

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Choriocarcinoma was not an obstacle Brandon anticipated he and Jenna would have to face. The swell of support his young family has received was just as unexpected.

Since her diagnosis, Jenna's story has been shared around the world. Her battle has been covered by a range of local, national and international media organizations 鈥� including ABC News and the New York Daily News.

The Prayers for Jenna Facebook page has received more than 112,000 likes. Posters hailing from as far away as have Italy offered up prayers for the young mother and lit candles to show support.

A page created by Jenna's uncle on , a crowd-funding website, has already netted more than $138,000 for the Hinman family.

Dozens of donors shared words of encouragement on the page. Rebecca Brown, one of the posters, said she was diagnosed with choriocarcinoma. Although it spread to her lungs, she survived.

"Jenna, you will be in my prayers constantly. You will fight this and survive," she wrote. "I fought it and came out victorious."

The worldwide reaction, Brandon said, has been "absolutely overwhelming."

"It's turned into something so magical," he said. "It's absolutely wonderful."

And after Jenna wakes up and holds her girls, Brandon has little doubt that she, too, will be grateful 鈥� and will use her experience to help others.

"This horrific thing happened in my life, but I know once she's out of this hospital, they picked the best person to be an advocate of a rare cancer," Brandon said. "She'd be the best advocate they'd ever seen."

At 3 p.m. Monday, John and Nancy Mortimer were watching Tinkers Guild, their fire-ravaged Auburn tavern of more than 20 years, get torn to the ground.

At the same time, the two were also emailing the members of the bar's Beer Club 鈥� to let them know it would still meet that week. When it did, Wednesday at the Highland Park Golf Club, members gave the Mortimers a standing ovation.

"They said, 'No one else would have done this. The damn place is burning down and you're worrying about where we're gonna go have a party,'" John said Friday.

Meanwhile, as word spread of the Monday morning fire that claimed the bar, its Facebook page became a sort of funeral guestbook, filled with memories and condolences. That day, John said, the page was visited 14,000 times.

Peggy Hicks, a longtime bartender at Tinkers, summed up this outpouring of sentiments for Tinkers with two words: John Mortimer.

"The guy would do anything for anyone," she said. "He loved it. He loved the people there, being happy, having fun."

As Mortimer reflected on the loss of Tinkers and the deluge of community support that followed, the word "family" came up frequently.

"My family has lost a big family," he said. "You open up a bar and you find out how many people have become your friend over 40 years. It makes you feel proud, and you respect how good the people are in this town."

From 1975 to 1990 and again from 2007 to Monday, the Mortimers endeavored to run their bar like a home for that extended family. They welcomed newcomers, to the point staff knew what they drank by the time of their second visit, Mortimer said.

For regulars, Tinkers was a place to celebrate life's most cherished moments. The Mortimers frequently loaned the space free of charge, allowing parties to decorate it and bring their own food. The last event at Tinkers was the Winter Olympics, a circuit of indoor and outdoor games 鈥� bocce, tabletop bowling 鈥� played by 60 to 70 people, Mortimer said. The event's purpose 鈥� to raise money for a fund in memoriam of bartender Paul McGrath's father 鈥� made for a fitting end, Mortimer said.

"If the doggone thing was gonna go, Tinkers did a good thing the last day we rang that register," he said.

Over the years, Tinkers also hosted birthdays, christenings, anniversaries and more. The only event to never occur within its walls was a wedding, Mortimer said. Still, for many bridal parties, Tinkers was the first stop after the ceremony.

"Many a bride has danced on that bar," Hicks said.

Stacey Hearn, of Auburn, recalls taking her sons to holiday parties hosted by the Mortimers. Her 12-year-old was sad when he saw the rubble this week, she said.

"You could associate it to 'Cheers,'" Hearn said. "You walk in and you know everybody."

Hicks, who first worked at Tinkers from 1978 to 1993, felt that sense of belonging when Mortimer rehired her to tend bar in 2007, the year he and Nancy repurchased, renovated and reopened the tavern.

"I remember walking in when they were remodeling, and I said, 'Oh my god, you can go home again,'" Hicks said.

For the Mortimers, whether to go home yet again is a question they're still trying to answer. They're retaining Tinkers' liquor license and looking at the possibilities, John said, but if they don't rebuild the tavern, it won't be for lack of support.

"It's made us so much better as a family," he said. "We have hundreds of people, many we consider very close, that we would have never had if we hadn't owned a stupid little bar called Tinkers."

WEEDSPORT | Beginning in the early 1980s, a small village in Cayuga County formerly known as Weeds Basin began an extraordinary run into the foray of presenting live music to complement its already successful dirt motor racing entity.

What started as a small pavilion type setup grew into a commodity at the Cayuga County Fairgrounds, home to DIRT MotorSports, founded by Greater Syracuse Sports Hall Of Fame inductee and music promoter Glenn Donnelly, setting the stage to grow into a grandstand that accommodated the hierarchy of the music industry elite, upcoming and otherwise.

鈥淵ou know it鈥檚 summer when they鈥檙e rockin鈥� in Weedsport鈥� became the go-to catchphrase created by Joe Kelly, who was the "voice" for concert advertisements that ran far and wide on both radio and television throughout the central New York market.

Music fans came from afar, backing up the traffic coming from the Route 90 Thruway corridor at Exit 40 for hours 鈥� at times delaying the start of a concert. People trekked from Rochester and Utica, Watertown and Binghamton, and all points in between and beyond.

No worries, though 鈥� the pre-show parking lot parties became the rage before long, with many regional bands getting the nod to perform on a smaller stage, engaging and priming the concert revelers for whatever headliner would be passing through town that evening. Dracula Jones, Mr. Slate, Bone China and the Prison City Rockers were just a few of the local acts to be privileged with making the tailgate parties successful.

In a recent interview at Riverbend Coffee, Donnelly reflected on the times and much of what surrounded the success of live music at the Cayuga County Fairgrounds鈥� grandstand stage and the various events he presented, from snowmobiling, monster trucks, rodeo, demolition derbies, concerts, go-cart racing and more.

鈥淲hen the opening act came on,鈥� Donnelly said, 鈥淲e tried to get people to move from the parking lot to the inside. They all had tickets.鈥� Chuckling, he added, 鈥渁 lot of them couldn鈥檛 make it.鈥�

Donnelly got involved in the music end of things due to gas spiking, and he looked at the big picture 鈥� remember the odd/even gas lines?

鈥淚 always looked at the five-year plan, and what lied ahead,鈥� he elaborated, also fessing up to admitting his first musical purchase was Elvis Presley.

鈥淕rowing up, you鈥檙e always listening to music,鈥� Donnelly said about his decision to present concerts. 鈥淚t was a good experience. We were there at the right time. We put more than 2 million people through those gates.鈥�

Blue Oyster Cult, Steppenwolf and others took the stage in their prime, while others arrived at the upswing of their career. Many returned for more than one appearance, including Alabama, .38 Special, Aerosmith, Metallica and others.

Ticket sales ranged from a few thousand to an overwhelming number, such as 13,000 when Alabama made a historic show at the venue that was limited by town codes and an official attendance of 10,000. Local sales outlets included Speno Music and Mayko Radio, with all tickets ranging around the $20 mark.

鈥淢ost everything we did in the late '80s and early '90s was a sellout,鈥� recalled Donnelly. 鈥淭he one that probably generated the most money for us over that whole period, and I did them eight to 10 times at all three venues and in Syracuse,鈥� Donnelly said, 鈥渨as Metallica.鈥�

鈥淲e did 25,000 at the (New York) State Fair for Lollapalooza," he mentions. 鈥淢etallica came to us with a small guarantee, an unheard-of deal in today鈥檚 market.鈥�

鈥淰an Halen would never had played Weedsport,鈥� said Donnelly鈥檚 son Pat. 鈥淚f we didn鈥檛 have the other two venues, many of the shows would not have visited Weedsport.鈥�

That, in and of itself, assisted in the success of the Weedsport concerts, as Glenn owned the Orange County Fairgrounds in Middletown and operated shows at Manchester, N.H.'s city park, with the grandstands replicated at each venue.

It helped that many of the acts who performed were race fans, taking some of their antics to another level. For example, Motley Crue enjoyed taking its tour buses around the track for an impromptu race, and even stayed up until 4 a.m. racing go-carts in the indoor makeshift track.

Just last month, the new investment group that purchased the oval track and former concert venue demolished the grandstand, pavilion and the popular VIP tower that hosted many special guests and friends of those affiliated with media, family members, the elite and touring bigwigs.

Donnelly currently is partnered with many investors and will be bringing a 2.5-mile road course to Central Square with a synthetic oval track as well as a grandstand 77 feet high that will double the capacity of Weedsport鈥檚 fan limit, presenting a few of the bigger shows, similar to the all-day K-Rockathon blasts.

"We鈥檒l have the latest technology, and it will blow people away," he said.

Weedsport was the place to go in central New York for concerts 鈥� Saratoga was further on down the pike and Darien Lake was not yet presenting concerts. The only action in the region was in the small village, except for the annual run of the New York State Fair in late August in Syracuse.

Many will recall the Friday night pavilion parties sponsored by 94 Rock that featured the best in regional acts, including Todd Hobin Band, Back Alley Boys and others. Even internationally known Auburn-based heavy metal band Manowar spent a long day of playbacks making its music video for the song 鈥淏low Your Speakers鈥� there.

鈥淲e were the first outdoor venue around here. We were it for many years,鈥� added Donnelly, who is working on a documentary that will include backstage scenes, pre-show fun and live concert footage to coincide with the publication of a book about the history of "Rockin鈥� in Weedsport."

鈥淧eople went to shows for the atmosphere, not necessarily the music,鈥� he said.

Syracuse promoter Chuck Chao was the first promoter in 1981 to assist Donnelly prior to Donnelly Presents taking over and going through renowned college agent Harris Goldberg, of Woodstock. Donnelly met Chao through Chao鈥檚 father, who was a snowmobile enthusiast.

Donnelly packaged deals to get better prices by placing the acts in all three of his venues, making routing and overhead easier. Some shows were a hard sell to the public, but he always pulled out all the strings to make things happen, including bringing in the Auburn High School cheerleaders for a Beach Boys concert, which added to the entire beach atmosphere 鈥� bikinis, beach balls and fun in the sun with Katrina & the Waves opening.

鈥淲e had it good the first half of the '90s,鈥� admitted Donnelly, 鈥渢hen it started getting tough with all the sheds popping up.鈥� The Constellation Brands 鈥� Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center were not presenting anything but symphonic concerts during the early '80s.

Blue Oyster Cult performed in 1982 and returned a couple of times before co-founder Al Bouchard鈥檚 new act The Brain Surgeons returned to the county fair 25 years later with local acts Static Cling and Thumb joining in the lineup. Steppenwolf played one of those earlier shows as well, and returns to central New York for an appearance at this year's New York State Fair at Chevy Court.

Jefferson Starship with Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas performed in 1987 and return to Cayuga County for an appearance Aug. 2 with Mickey Thomas in tow at the Deauville Island Music Festival, with a reunion of The Doyle-Whiting Band and The Funky Blu Roots.

Donnelly, who wasn鈥檛 much for mingling backstage, did get to sit in the front row at Middletown for a concert and act he really wanted to catch, and that was when Celine Dion opened for Michael Bolton, a show he believed would not sell in the Weedsport market.

鈥淲e put so much into it,鈥� Donnelly said. 鈥淓veryone involved played a big part to keep people coming back. The community was very involved 鈥� even the Boy Scouts who did the clean up.鈥�

鈥淲e鈥檒l have a reunion with some of these acts with our new venue,鈥� he concluded, 鈥淭he bottom line is, it was all fun.鈥�

SUMMERHILL | The first time Morley Schloss got naked in public, it was out of necessity.

It was 1969, and Schloss had been enjoying Woodstock from a makeshift seat on a rain-slicked, muddy hill. Without a change of clothes or a private place to shower, the then-28-year-old Rochester man only saw one way to get clean: Skinny-dipping.

So Schloss, in full view of other festival attendees, shucked off his muddy clothes and waded naked into a Bethel pond.

"It felt so good to get out and feel the sun and water on me," he said. "It was such a freeing experience, the freedom and the growth of it."

Schloss fell irrevocably in love with the feeling of having no barriers between himself and nature. Hungry to retain his newly found freedom, Schloss ventured to a library after Woodstock and researched nudism.

Now, 45 years later, Schloss 鈥� wearing nothing but a wedding band and a smile 鈥� stands on a grassy hill at Empire Haven Nudist Park and explains that nudism has become a way of life.

Nudism, commonly called "naturism" by practitioners, is the practice of experiencing the world without clothing, particularly in social settings. Among those who get naked in public, nudism can range from a lifestyle to an activity confined to beaches.

But because it's generally illegal in the United States to bare it all in public, naturists often congregate on private campgrounds and beaches specifically created for nude social interactions.

One of those sanctuaries exists in Summerhill.

Created in 1959, Empire Haven Nudist Park provides naturists with 97 acres of private land dotted with rental units and tent sites. It prides itself on offering a family-friendly environment, complete with hiking trails, a pool and a volleyball court.

In sum, Empire Haven is like any other American campground. Its campers just happen to be nude.

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Last Wednesday, on the second day of its annual Northeast Naturist Festival, Empire Haven was abuzz with activity.

Around 2:30 p.m., a caravan of cars returning from a hike to a popular skinny-dipping site in Ithaca pulled into the gated campground's parking lot. After parking, the campers stepped out of their vehicles, took off their clothes and dispersed.

Schloss, who has attended the Northeast Naturist Festival since it premiered 23 years ago, tucks the navy blue briefs he wore in the car into a canvas bag before heading over to Empire Haven's new pool. He said he has attended the festival every year since it premiered 23 years ago for the same reason other attendees repeatedly return.

"It's a festival, kind of new-age activities," Schloss, 72, said. "There's fun workshops, fantastic entertainment."

But aside from the drum circles, health talks and art classes, the people are what make the Northeast Naturist Festival so unique.

At Empire Haven 鈥� and other nude-friendly places 鈥� Schloss said attendees enjoy a community where all shapes and sizes are accepted. Nudists learn to be comfortable wearing only their own skin, he explained, and feel confident enough to be wholly themselves without needing to cover up.

"No matter what body type, people are comfortable with themselves," he said. "It's incredible. It's incredible for children."

Schloss said children who grow up in naturist families learn not be ashamed of their bodies and get accustomed to the way humans physically change as they age. That exposure, he said, allows children to transition from adolescence into adulthood without many of the insecurities present in their non-nudist peers.

In an age where eating disorders are disturbingly common, Schloss said that confidence 鈥� that acceptance 鈥� is vital.

"If you don't feel good about yourself in your body, you won't feel good about anything," he said. "If you don't love yourself, how do you expect anyone else to love who you are?"

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Between Empire Haven's sparkling pool and a covered pavilion stretches a line of white outdoor lounge chairs.

Susan Rothberg, of Long Island, stretched out her limbs while sunbathing, reaching out as if to catch as much sun as possible. And considering she was nude 鈥� save a baseball cap, black-rimmed glasses and sandals 鈥� her chances of tanning appeared good.

After Schloss laid his beach towel on the grass next to her, Rothberg smiled and recalled her first real nudist experience.

It was around 1995, and she was dating a man who suggested they spend a day at Lighthouse Beach, a partially clothing-optional beach in Islip.

When they first stepped onto the beach, Rothberg slowly waded into the naturist community 鈥� at first pulling the top of her black, one-piece bathing suit down to her waist. Then, after eventually summoning her courage, she ditched the entire suit.

"I took it off and the world didn't stop spinning," she said. "OK, naked bodies. Who cares?"

As she started to make places like Lighthouse Beach and the Northeast Naturist Festival a regular part of her life, Rothberg started to notice a mental shift: She no longer hated her body.

"Here, nobody has a problem that I'm over 50 and fat. Nobody minds," she said with a laugh. "I can accept it. It's body acceptance."

After learning to accept their bodies 鈥� scars, stretch marks, blemishes and warts 鈥� Rothberg said naturists focus on what exists in their fellow naturists' brains. And that, she argued, is at the heart of naturism: Loving a person for their naked soul.

"You remove more than your clothes," she said. "You remove the veneer you put out to the public, and there you are."

AUBURN | Nikki Menser-Stilwell knew her odds weren't good.

The 31-year-old Auburn had learned via genetic testing that she had that left her with a high risk of getting breast or ovarian cancer.

Thanks to a geneticist, Menser-Stilwell knew her exact odds: She had an 87-percent chance of developing breast cancer and a 68-percent chance of developing ovarian cancer before her 50th birthday.

"It's like having a looking glass," she said. "It's not if I'm going to get cancer. It's when."

Knowing the pain her future likely held, Menser-Stilwell decided to act.

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Learning she carried the BRCA-2 mutation was not Menser-Stilwell's introduction to cancer.

Growing up, Menser-Stilwell watched her paternal grandmother struggle to beat the abnormal cell growth ravaging her body.

"As long as I've ever known her, she had breast cancer," she said. "Every time, they would just cut off more and more of her chest."

Menser-Stilwell's grandmother was first diagnosed with breast cancer at age 28, and succumbed to the disease at age 58 after undergoing 30 years of radiation, chemotherapy and surgeries. At the time, Menser-Stilwell was only 18 鈥� and deeply shaken by her grandma's experience.

About 13 years later, Menser-Stilwell received a call that changed her life.

Her mother had read explaining why she opted to have a preventative double mastectomy after discovering she had BRCA1, a gene that 鈥� just like BRCA2 鈥� put her at a higher risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.

In her editorial, Jolie said she hoped sharing her experience would help other women empower themselves.

"Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people's hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness," she wrote. "But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action."

After reading Jolie's editorial, Menser-Stilwell's mother 鈥� with her mother-in-law's breast cancer in mind 鈥� encouraged her daughter to get tested for the gene mutation.

Menser-Stilwell took her mother's advice.

An Iraq veteran and National Guard soldier, Menser-Stilwell stopped by her local Veterans Affairs branch for a blood test. On May 28, she learned she had BRCA2 鈥� a discovery that left her feeling like she was strapped with a genetic, ticking time bomb.

A few weeks later, a doctor presented her with options.

She could take a drug that lowers her risk of developing cancer or undergo frequent MRIs to keep watch for the disease. Or she could opt to have a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, losing both of her breasts.

For Menser-Stilwell, surgery 鈥� while frightening 鈥� seemed like her best chance.

"After watching my grandmother go through it," she explained, "I didn't want my family to suffer."

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Just over two months after geneticists discovered her BRCA2 gene mutation, surgeons removed both of Menser-Stilwell's breasts.

She left the hospital with a painful expander between her chest wall and pectoral muscles. For a few days, she wasn't able to carry anything heavy. For over a week, she wasn't able to wear a bra or put on a regular shirt.

Months later, Menser-Stilwell still hurts.

"I deal with pain on a daily basis from my 31-year-old body saying 'What did you do to me? Those were good parts,'" she said. "But if I sit and play the tape all the way through, I know it was the right thing to do."

The pain should lessen in January, after Menser-Stilwell undergoes a second surgery and receives permanent breast implants.

As she waits for the final phase of her journey to preemptively defeat breast cancer, Menser-Stilwell wants to help other women. Along with trying to raise awareness by sharing her story, she hopes to form a support group in Cayuga County to help local women who discover they have BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.

"They call us previvors, because we do everything preventative," she said.

After receiving an abundance of support from her family and the "BRCA sisterhood" she discovered on Internet support groups, Menser-Stilwell wants to help other women 鈥� especially those who receive backlash for deciding to have a surgery some people consider self-mutilation.

For women who have a family history of breast cancer, Menser-Stilwell advocating getting tested for BRCA1 and BRCA2.

While its terrifying to wait to see if a high chance of cancer is in your future, she said learning what you're facing and having a chance to act is empowering.

"I have physical pain," she said. "But I think the weight off my shoulder figuratively was worth it."

AUBURN | Doug's Market in Auburn has closed after 25 years. Well, 25 years, 7 months and 29 days since March 29. But who's counting?

Mary Mason counted. She and her husband, Doug Mason, both know exactly how long their family market remained in business on the corner of Frances and Anna streets.

The two closed it down at the end of March, but said they will remain open until early afternoons on Fridays and Saturdays in an attempt to sell the rest of their wares at 50-percent off. Food items will be donated to St. Alphonsus Church on South Lewis Street and Cavalry Food Pantry on Franklin Street, Mary said.

The Masons opened the store on Aug. 2, 1988, during one of the hottest summers in recent memory, Mary said. From then on, the two remained open for more than two generations.

That' was two generations of customers, market trends, new products and general business. Two generations of hellos and goodbyes and of being one kid's candy store, another adult's deli shop.

It's all over now, but it was their choice.

"It was time," Doug said simply.

Maybe they would have kept it going if they were younger, Mary said. The two were in their 40s when they bought the previous business and the Anna Street location itself, with Doug coming off more than 20 years of experience at Sears.

Now Doug is 69 and Mary is 65. Their children, three sons (Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason is their oldest), have all grown up. The two Masons are now grandparents, and both plan to use their new free time to see their two grandchildren more often.

Plus, Doug and Mary have their own "bucket lists" they would like to work on. Doug said the Masons plan to do some traveling, but they will continue to live in the area. He has no plans as of yet to sell the building.

"We tried running it on a part-time basis. That didn't work," Doug said. "It's all or nothing, in all honesty."

Owning the store wasn't easy, Mary said. Running the business certainly took its physical toll on the Masons. Doug went through several surgeries at various points during the 25 years.

Sticking around is difficult for any small store like Doug's nowadays, Mary said. Twenty-five years ago, drug stores were drug stores and markets were markets. There was no crossover.

Now, anyone can go into most drug stores for general groceries. Not only that, but keeping up with market trends was tough as well.

"You have to reinvent yourself so many times," Mary said. "If something becomes popular, you need to sell it or people will go someplace else to buy it."

Doug's Market did a little escalation of their own over the years after opening a deli and pizza portion of their business, which 鈥� along with the candy for the kids 鈥� were very popular with consumers, Mary said.

But Mary referenced that people have developed into such a "mobile society" that these smaller community stores may be getting left behind. Once teens are of age and have a car, they can just drive to Wegmans or other larger stores for their goods, she said.

"They don't need to ride their bike to the little stores anymore," Mary said.

But just because it wasn't always easy doesn't mean it wasn't always rewarding. The Masons said they have taken special joy in watching children grow and develop right before their very eyes.

Children who had gone to Doug's to buy "$1 bags" of candy would return years later with children of their own to do the very same thing.

Local families have paid their respects to the owners. A farewell card written by two local children, Mary said, hangs near the market's cash register. On the card, two children are smiling beneath the message, "We will miss you."

Inside, a message written by a child informs the owners, "Mrs. Mason" in particular, that the "slusheys," "candys," and "dalishis jingarale" were all favorites.

"That's what I'll miss most," Mary said. "I loved watching the children grow up."

Doug echoed his wife's sentiments, saying children would really learn the value of a dollar through the candy sales.

"We taught kids more about money then what they'd learn in a classroom," Doug said. "Kids would come in with their money and they'd learn real quick. It's not the same as putting it down on paper in a classroom."

And in the end, the owners are grateful that they were able to walk away on their own terms. The Masons said they wish the other local community markets that are left in Auburn the best of luck.

But after fully serving the community for 25 years, 7 months and 29 days, one small family market with a big-time impact has called it a day for the last time.

"It's definitely been some real mixed emotions," Doug said.

AURELIUS | Ever since Avicolli's left Fingerlakes Mall several months ago, two eateries have since filled the void.

The pizza place's parting paved the way for Tony Feocco and his wife, Hillary, to establish a new eatery in the mall: Burger Planet. The establishment officially opened Tuesday, May 27.

Another restaurant, Brooklyn Slice Italian Eatery, had a soft opening days later on May 30. The eatery will celebrate its grand opening on Friday, June 13, with a ribbon-cutting at around 11 a.m. and music at 1 p.m.

Burger Planet owners Tony and Hillary Feocco have already established a community enterprise in the mall, Feocco's Family Inflatables.

Since December, the family had thought about opening an eatery of some kind. When Avicolli's left, Hillary said, they saw an opening 鈥� better yet, an opportunity.

"We thought it would be good to get something else in," she said. "There definitely needs to be more choices."

It was Tony's decision to go in the direction of a burger joint, according to his wife. The Auburn man has experience with operating an eatery after owning his own pizza place in Auburn, Big T's.

The name Burger Planet is certainly not a misnomer, but it doesn't quite tell the whole story about the eatery's menu, Hillary said. The burger joint also offers consumer favorites such as chicken fingers and mozzarella sticks, and there will be daily specials on weekdays for special products such as pulled pork and chicken.

The eatery's moniker was decided by Tony and Vin Gleason, who currently serves as the mall's temporary general manager. The two were tossing around ideas for names when Gleason said he suggested Burger Planet, and the Feoccos embraced it.

Gleason cited Pizza Planet, from "Toy Story" fame, as inspiration.

"I just envisioned that type of scene from that movie," he said of Burger Planet.

Across from Burger Planet sits Brooklyn Slice, which will offer a variety of products such as pizza, pasta and salads. With its opening, Brooklyn Slice took Avicolli's spot as the mall's resident pizza place 鈥� both figuratively and literally.

Gleason said Brooklyn Slice moved into Avicolli's old spot in the mall, but the spot has been renovated 100 percent 鈥� and so has the menu.

"It's a lot bigger variety than the past," he said.

With two new eateries secure, the Fingerlakes Mall has one food location left. As the mall's acting general manager, Gleason said management is currently exploring potential fits for that final spot.

Gleason is currently looking at a coffee house, a bakery or "something else really different," but all discussion is preliminary at this point.

"It's a good direction to be in right now," he said of having one remaining spot.

MAURICES SAYING GOODBYE

Women's clothing retail store Maurices will be leaving Fingerlakes Mall later in June.

Vin Gleason, acting mall manager, said Maurices will officially leave the mall June 21. Gleason had been informed of the retailer's decision on May 3 and said he remained in communication with the clothing store's corporate offices for several weeks.

The main factor in the decision was the location's sales figures, according to Gleason.

"The sales just weren't where they wanted them to be," Gleason said.

Representatives from Maurices could not be reached for comment.

With Maurices closing, mall management is currently looking into the addition of new businesses that will address similar demographics, Gleason said.

"I can't fully comment on it, but there are some great things coming," he said.

AUBURN | Meet Meagan Kalet: Union Springs native, mother of two, police detective.

Kalet, a 14-year veteran of the Auburn Police Department, was recently appointed by the chief of police to the position of detective just last week. The move made her the first female detective in the 135-year history of the Auburn Police Department.

For the department, it was groundbreaking appointment. For Kalet, it's been a dream fulfilled.

"It's been a lifelong goal to become a detective," she said.

The Union Springs native comes with a background in agriculture from her family's farm. She followed up her time at Union Springs High School with a year at Cayuga Community College and a year at SUNY Cortland before graduating with a Bachelor's of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1999.

In July 2000, her time with the APD started as a patrol officer. Six years of patrol were followed by seven years with the Finger Lakes Drug Task Force, where Kalet said she was required to perform undercover and surveillance operations, among other duties, in making drug arrests.

As she settles into her new position as detective, Kalet will be required to apply those same skills, but for a much broader range of offenses.

But to hear that she was the first female to accomplish the feat was, she said, surprising.

"I can't remember who said that to me," Kalet said. "I remember saying, 'Oh my gosh, that's neat!'"

While the detective's position was a lifelong goal of her's, Kalet has been eligible for the appointment for eight years, she said. That's how long she was on what's called the聽sergeant's list, a group of individuals eligible for positional changes to detective or sergeant.

To make the list, an officer must take an exam and place among the top seven of participants, said Capt. Charles Augello.

The results of the test, which is only available to take every two to four years, are valid for only a few years, meaning Kalet had to make the top seven at least twice. At least five year's of experience are also required for the detective's position, per the police union's contract.

Augello, who taught criminal justice to Kalet during her time at CCC, said her skills from the Finger Lakes Drug Task Force should translate well into her new position.

"My greatest pleasure is to see some of my former students become successful career police officers," he said.

For Kalet, she knew her eight-year wait was only a matter of time. "I just had to wait for it to be my time."

The Union Springs native has reached a point in her life where she's done much of what she has wanted to accomplish. Starting a family meant a lot to her, and she would like to go back to the farm when her police career has come to an end.

But that's later. For now, Kalet said she has work to do.

"It's a great feeling of accomplishment that all of the hard work and sacrifices paid off."

AUBURN | Benjamin Maeso was looking for the opportunity.

Dawn Schulz was looking to grant it.

Maeso, of Rochester, is head brewer at Schulz's new Prison City Pub & Brewery, which opened Friday at the corner of State and Dill streets.聽

Though it's Maeso's first full-time brewing job, his resume runneth over with accolades and apprenticeships. Along with doing time at Rohrbach Brewing Co. in Rochester and Stoneyard in Brockport, Maeso was recognized as the New York State Home Brewer of the Year in 2011. His ales, barrel-aged beers and other concoctions have earned him more than 100 awards, as well.

At Prison City, Maeso oversees a five-barrel system whose first full batch will arrive early this week, he said.

"It's exciting and nerve-racking at the same time," he said.

Maeso has brewed every style in the guide, he said, and is also working to become a cicerone 鈥� the beer equivalent of a wine sommelier. Among the many styles he's brewed, he specializes in Belgian (wild, sour), fruit-based and aggressively hopped American (pale ale, India pale ale).

More than any one style, however, it's adventurousness that characterizes Maeso as a brewer. He looks forward to taking patrons of the new brewpub on the ride with him, from cucumber saison and double IPA to barrel-aged Russian imperial stouts and sour Berliner vice flavored by local blueberries or peaches.

"We're gonna make some standard beers that are more approachable, of course," he said. "But I kind of want to introduce people to stuff where they'll drink it and go, 'Wow, this doesn't taste like beer at all.'"

Along with a spate of other craft beers, two to four of Maeso's beers will be on tap at Prison City to start, eventually followed by six or seven. For now, beer can be bought in pints or flight. But when Prison City's own beer starts flowing fully, growlers will be available, as well.

With his brewing space separated from the restaurant by swinging double doors next to the bar, Maeso also expects to be around often enough to answer patrons' questions about his brewing process, or craft beer in general. And if he's not there, servers will also be schooled in the house brews.

"We want to focus on beer education," he said. "It's really fascinating."

Schulz and her husband, Marc, both fans of craft beer and frequenters of regional breweries, found Maeso through mutual contacts.

"The kid can clearly make great beer," Marc said. "And that's paramount to everything that goes on here."

Dawn had ambitions to open a brewpub since before she and Marc 聽their Bistro One restaurant on Genesee Street in 2010. With no breweries in Cayuga County as of the beginning of 2014, Prison City appealed to not only her own enthusiasm for local craft beer, but everyone's in the area.

As such, she tailored the brewpub's to the beer: burgers, pork belly tacos and other hearty fare.

"Our main focus is on the beer," she said. "And what we like from all of our travels is brewpub-style menus."

As 2014 draws to a close, though, Prison City is not the only brewery to pop on the Cayuga County map recently. With in Auburn and in Weedsport, Prison City is instead part of a promising pattern, Maeso said.

"Three breweries opening up in the last year is pretty amazing, when you think about it," he said.聽"People go out of their way to visit breweries. If there's more than one in a town, they're going to hit up everything."

A local woman is making sure her adventurous life as an international model is mined for all it can offer her as a novelist.

Shortly after Jacqueline Cioffa graduated from Auburn High School in 1986, she headed off to lower Manhattan to attend a writing and journalism program at New York University.聽Except a chance sidewalk meeting with a photographer proved the catalyst that changed her trajectory for the next 17 years.

Cioffa's image was soon seen on billboards and in magazines across the globe. She wore the fashions of iconic luxury brands such as Armani, Moschino and Hermes. She worked in Paris, South Africa and the "winter seasons" in Miami. She lived in Milan for a dozen years, living a life there that many fantasize for themselves.

Always a writer, specifically of prose, Cioffa took classes and took part in several supportive writing groups to hone her skill and find her voice as her modeling career came to a close. She would eventually become a celebrity makeup artist.

"I came back to New York in the late '90s and started to slow down when I hit my 30s. The business kind of retires you," she said.

Cioffa parlayed her good genes toward an acting career in Los Angeles for a time. She wrote a screenplay, which fell through. She, again and again, returned to the one activity that grounded her: writing.

"All those experiences helped to give me stories and be an observer of the world," Cioffa said.

A few years ago, she returned to Auburn to write her first novel, "The Vast Landscape."

Her protagonist, Harrison, is a woman whose story is much like her creator's 鈥� a good girl, a good student, inquisitive and a fighter.

The future model is discovered on a New York City sidewalk and forsakes a college education for life as the face of luxury and fashion.

Harrison's experience of her new milieu is full of sensory observation. An early chapter refers to the city in tantalizing terms:聽"New York tasted better than chocolate, was wilder than anything Harrison had imagined, and smelled like opportunity. The streets vibrated under her boots."

The reader senses early on that the writing of the book is a labor that likely netted the author a great deal of satisfaction 鈥� perhaps like the deep sigh a person releases after a long-awaited accomplishment is achieved and is finally ticked off life's to-do list.

"I'd say there is a point where it's creative nonfiction." Cioffa said. "It's based on truth, the fantasy comes where Harrison finds all her big dreams and accepts her flaws and is willing to let down her walls. That's a big moment for this character.

"This girl has a huge heart and big dreams and she's deeply flawed, and I find that people really related to that," Cioffa said of her protagonist.

Cioffa readily admits to submitting to powers and personal demons larger than herself. She said she currently manages a short list of mental illnesses that have sidelined her along her path, but from which she's emerged enlightened. Manic-depression tops the list, she said.

"The writing was something that gave me stability," she said. "I didn't experience any struggles with the story, but when I got to the publishing part, that's when it started to get very difficult. ... I wanted to quit, but I didn't I just kept going. The book saved me in many ways."

Her novel is self-published and took nearly as long to finish its post-production as to write it, Cioffa said. "The Vast Landscape" is available in paperback and on Kindle, and may be purchased through Amazon.

"I want other people to know that no matter what's happening to find the truth in their joy. I think the stigma (around mental illness) has to change. I can't change who I am or what happened, but what I can do is do my best to be honest," she said.

As Cioffa wrote "The Vast Landscape," she consciously chose to part ways with her own life story and endow Harrison with challenges that ultimately lead her to a beach, a surfing habit and a beautiful baby. But not mental illness.

"She's beautiful chaos, but she's not sick," Cioffa said.