Air Force Airman 1st Class Brian J. Pawlikowski graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

State Police allege that Christopher M. Seamans, 32, of 340 Shanty Creek Rd. Central Square, held up the NBT Bank branch in Grand Gorge on Tuesday at about 9:40 a.m..  Police said he did not use a weapon.  The robber drove away from the bank in a red sedan.

A Central Square man is facing charges of sexually abusing a child.

On a sunny day in August David Engle and his girlfriend Audrey Pisiak, from the Central Square area, took off for a flight to visit a friend in Manlius in Engle’s two place light sport aircraft. What should have been a perfect day turned into something neither were expecting. On takeoff from the friend’s home, for reasons unknown, Engle’s plane did not clear some trees and was thrown down through them to the ground.

The Oswego High School Marching Buccaneers turned in one of their best performances of the season Sunday night as the best bands in the state competed one last time.

Oswego’s Marching Buccaneers posted their best score of the field band season Saturday night at West Genesee.

The Bucs posted a score of 83.30 for its show, called “The Search”.

Two men from Oswego — Steven Baitsell and Baubak Gholipour-Abbasi — and Vincent Ryder of Central Square were among 24 people being sought by police today as officials announced they’d cracked several drug distribution rings that were centered on the village of Solvay in Onondaga County.

Robert Matteson died last weekend in Oak Creek, Colorado.  He was 63.

Matteson, who grew up in Central Square, was well known in Oak Creek as “Cowboy Bob” and at the same time, he was barely known at all.  He was said to be the small town’s only homeless person, but few there knew how he came to be that way.  In Oswego County, his family knew that his time in Vietnam had changed him but after he suddenly left town, they could never find where he had gone.

His peaceful death in a garage solved a lot of mysteries.

There’s a wonderful article in the local newspaper there, called The Steamboat Pilot and Today, that gives Robert Matteson’s life its proper due and ties up the loose ends on both sides.  It’s worth your time to read it.

Every year, students with established outstanding academic records are honored by the dean of each college. To qualify for the Dean’s List in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, one must be a matriculated full-time student and earn a semester grade point average of 3.5.

Matthew Todd Solomon, 43, of Constantia (Oswego County), has been sentenced in Oswego County Court to pay fines and restitution and do community service after being convicted of illegally cutting and removing trees on private property located in the Village of Central Square. The standing value of the timber that was cut and removed by Mr. Solomon was estimated by a certified forester at $10,120.

The Fulton District Wide Storytelling Festival was held and storytellers from throughout the district showcased their talents in telling a wide variety of stories. Participants told a folktale, fairytale, myth, legend, tall tale or fable. The stories ranged from spooky legends to hilarious tales and many had a useful moral attached that provided a bit [...]

Parents: Get your social life back on track! Go out “guilt-free” and have fun knowing that your children are not just waiting for you by the TV — but are having fun too!

Happy New Year to all of our readers in the tri-county region!
While our Richland facility is closed until April, the society is still active with Friday afternoon hours at the Barclay Court House in Pulaski (2nd floor over DMV, 2pm until 5) or by appointment. We got off to a rocky start following our [...]