Owens Wins Race For Congress

Democrat Bill Owens confounded the experts and defied more than a century of history as he won the three way race for Congress from Oswego County and the North Country.

With about 80% of votes counted, Owens held about a 4,000 vote lead.  There are as many as 11,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted and a handful of voting locations across the district had their voting machines sealed for hand counts beginning today.

Voters returned all five of the incumbents to the Oswego Common Council. They will be joined by two newcomers, according to Tuesday night’s unofficial vote totals.

Two east side residents are facing felony drug charges. During the search, investigators seized approximately 13.5 grams of cocaine, an undisclosed amount of cash, and an apparent stun gun disguised as a cell phone.

The final day of the campaign for Congress was a wild one, with Doug Hoffman and Bill Owens continuing to spend time on the candidate who isn’t in the race anymore.

Hoffman, the Conservative Party’s candidate, called for an investigation of Republican Dede Scozzafava’s decision to quit running and, a day later, endorse Democrat Bill Owens.  Owens continued to praise Scozzafava for her decision to back him.

An analysis by Oswego County Today that compared the amount of stimulus funds to the population of the counties shows that Oswego County is getting $659.87 in stimulus funds for each of the county’s 121,454 residents (using 2007 Census estimates).

That’s below the $804.68 average for each person in the state, but a little above the median amount of $641.53.

Your votes and your comments are coming in.

Here’s one: “Keep voting for the liberals and insure that New York will be the home of retirees and welfare recipients.”

Agree? Disagree? Take the poll and leave your thoughts in the comments.

Oswego County Opportunities’ Youth Emergency Services (YES!) Program wants to display 320 paper backpacks in East Park; one for each youth who contacted OCO at its 24-hour hotline in 2008.

Local archivist Tom Tryniski takes us back a little more than a century, to see the Oswego Falls Paper Co.  Click inside to see another photo and to see them both at full size.  And make sure to visit Tom’s great website, FultonHistory.com.

This is the second of four installments, totaling more than $27,000, that will be donated to the Hannibal Central School District to fund JV sports that were eliminated from the 2009-10 budget. JV Football, Fall Cheerleading, JV Wrestling, JV Baseball and JV Softball were all cut from the budget.

Geneseo’s Ian Mort scored the game-winning goal less than one minute into overtime to hand the Oswego State men’s soccer team a 3-2 loss in the first round of the SUNY Athletic Conference Playoffs.

On Nov. 11 the Emergency Services Program of Catholic Charities of Oswego County in cooperation with the Food Bank of Central New York will sponsor a fresh food distribution.

Neither rain, nor wind, nor a dip in the mercury stopped Oswego County BOCES’ students and their families along with community members and alumni from attending the organization’s annual Open House event and Come Back To BOCES Celebration. Held this year in conjunction with one another, the event gave visitors an opportunity to not only [...]

On Saturday October 24, the society will open its doors from 10am until 4 pm for a full day of research. At noon the society will serve a roast ham lunch just prior to our regular monthly meeting. The meeting and lunch are open to the public. There are many new research volumes on the shelves, and even those familiar with our collections will be surprised.