Each week, syracuse.com will look back at some of our most important and valuable journalism from the previous week. Here are six stories for the week of March 9, 2025. When Trump’s tariffs wound Canada, Upstate NY bleeds, too: cars, farms, beer No country is more important to New York growers and manufacturers than Canada. Our northern neighbor is the No. 1 export market for New York. Just over half of the state’s exported agricultural products head north. On the flip side, New York ranks No. 5 among U.S. states for receiving Canada’s exports. That close-knit relationship is uniquely vulnerable to the game of tariff chicken the two countries are engaging in now. The day basketball stopped: 5 Section III champs still haunted by COVID-19 pandemic that halted state playoffs Five years later, five boys basketball teams are still wondering: What if? On Saturday, March 7, 2020, Section III crowned five sectional champions. On Thursday, March 12, state athletic officials publicly announced the indefinite postponement of state playoffs for boys and girls basketball, boys hockey and bowling because of the rising Covid-19 pandemic. It was the first year there wasn’t a boys basketball state tournament in New York state since it was first rolled out in 1978. Mayor Walsh makes unusual move to ‘rid the city’ of notorious Syracuse landlord More than a dozen times since 2008 the city of Syracuse has taken Brooklyn-based landlord Mendy Kletzky to court over the condition of his rental properties. Mayor Ben Walsh said he hopes that a lawsuit filed by the city on Monday will be the final battle. The lawsuit’s aim is to “rid the city of Mr. Kletzky once and for all,’’ Walsh said. See video of killer’s apology to family of childhood friend he strangled; new details revealed A man begged his childhood friend’s family for forgiveness Monday before being sentenced for her murder in Syracuse. Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, was sentenced to 23 years to life in prison for strangling Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza, 21, and dumping her body in Lincoln Park on June 18, 2024. Chacaguasay-Ilbis killed her after inviting her to an Airbnb on Syracuse’s North Side that he rented for an elaborate birthday celebration for her that never happened. Giant cranes solve tricky engineering problem on I-481 bridge construction Have you seen the two giant bright yellow spider-like structures at the construction site on Interstate 481 over the CSX rail yard in DeWitt? Plenty of cars are slowing down to gawk at the 3-story tall structures. They’re so big they had to be assembled on site. They are called gantry cranes – the kinds of machines usually seen at rail and shipping yards. They can lift a shipping container. The two gantry cranes on I-481 are an engineering solution to a tricky construction dilemma. Syracuse football teammates remember Craig Wolfley: ‘I can’t think about him without getting a smile' Craig Wolfley loved the Syracuse weight room so much that he often ate lunch there. Former quarterback Bill Hurley remembered Wolfley spending so much time lifting that he’d break up sessions with a sandwich. The quarterback wouldgrab his golf bag while Wolfley’s brown bag supplied fuel for a second round of pumping iron, building the strength that made him a foundation of the Syracuse football program from 1976 to 1979 and a two-time Associated Press All-American. Wolfley died at the age of 66 from an undisclosed form of cancer.