Oswego’s bookmobile operates differently from traditional bookmobiles. It delivers free books that don’t have to be returned. The bookmobile also delivers encouragement, modeled reading and activities to complement reading. Vandalism nearly thwarted the Bookmobile’s 2013 before it started.
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Word has been received of the death of John R. Clark Sr. He was predeceased by his parents, Joseph F. and Olga (Yablonski); his twin, Joseph F. Jr.; and his wife, Scherie (Symborski).
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For Cayuga Community College graduate and Commencement speaker Brian Knapp ’13, this day almost never came. On August 4, 2008, nine days before his 21st birthday, he was driving his Marine commander through the country side of Afghanistan when they vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device. He sustained a traumatic brain injury and struggled to remember simple words like “gate.”
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Charles I. VanHorn, 85, of Red Creek, passed away on Saturday May 18, 2013, at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.
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Assemblyman Will Barclay said today the ethic’s oversight in the state Assembly is inadequate and needs to be reformed in order to protect the public’s interest, not political interest. Barclay is planning to put forth legislation that will create in law an Assembly standing committee on Ethics and Guidance that will be independent of the Assembly Speaker.
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