A large crowd turned out on Veterans’ Day to salute the Port City’s veterans past and present. The mayor’s budget message for 2015 contained better news than 2014. US Military cites SUNY Oswego. Two people escaped injury Nov. 20 as their car went over an embankment and landed precariously on the shore of Lake Ontario.
Karl Haist set a state record at Oswego’s Great Pumpkin Fest and then broke it the following day. A Central Square administrator was named principal at OHS. Al Roker returned to SUNY Oswego. John Canale Drive was unveiled. A Marching Buc was named to the Army’s All-American Band.
A wish was granted for princess Sadie Wilson. She and her twin sister, Layla, were going to Disney World, thanks to local volunteers for the Make A Wish Foundation. Bill Crist, superintendent of Schools for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, was named president of the United Way’s board of directors. The Oswego council sought to silence sirens on the river.
Also in August, dozens Rallied In Support of Gary Thibodeau. The school district appointed two principals. Midway Drive-In continued on the road to recovery. And, the Common Council approved dedication of the street between City Hall and Pathfinder Bank as “John M. Canale Drive.”
Oswego City Police and University Police made two arrests in a case of three heroin overdoses, one victim died. The council tried to ban the Bridge Street Run and bill the college for the associated overtime costs. However, the mayor vetoed the resolution. Voters approved the city school district’s budget and elected two incumbents and a newcomer to the board of education.
John Spotwood received a scratch-off lottery ticket from his sister that made him $1 million richer in an instant. Also, hundreds turned out to raise money to fund research for childhood cancer. Legislation was announced to close legal loopholes regarding synthetic drugs.
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