The company that changed the way America eats is being sold.
Birds Eye Foods, which employs about 250 people at its plant in Fulton at last word, is being bought by Blackstone Group LP’s Pinnacle Foods Group for $1.3 billion.
Posted Nov 20, 2009 at 6:36 am
A Fulton Police Department vehicle was involved in a crash with a car driven by a man police say was drunk and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
Fulton Police allege that officer Jeremy Algarin was driving along S. Fourth St. at about 9:12 p.m. Thursday when his car was hit by a vehicle driven by Peter Wahlstrom of Fulton.
Posted Nov 20, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Fresh off the success of “Don’t Tell Mother”, Quirk’s Players are already gearing up for “The Sound Of Music.” Also today: the weekend NFL picks, a look ahead at Black Friday and a commentary on the economy.
Posted Nov 20, 2009 at 3:24 pm
OHS economics students learn about what it takes to run a successful small business. And, they help out the school’s Travel Club in the process. Several local business owners acted as consultants for the students.
Posted Nov 20, 2009 at 6:49 amUnemployment in Oswego County continued to back down from recent highs, falling to 9.2% in October, according to the New York State Labor Department.
The jobless rate stood at 9.4% in September and had hit the 10% level earlier in the year. A year ago, the jobless rate was just beginning to rise. It stood at 6.6%.
Posted Nov 20, 2009 at 6:38 am
The state’s largest tire dump is no longer in Oswego County. State, county and local officials gathered at the Fortino Tire Yard today to announce that cleanup of the site is nearly 100 percent complete. It had been the largest tire dump in the Empire State.
Posted Nov 19, 2009 at 4:07 pm
The Fulton City School District was legally obligated to hold Wednesday night’s public hearing on its $3.85 million proposed construction project.
The public was not legally obligated to show up.
Posted Nov 19, 2009 at 7:58 am
Archivist Tom Tryniski sends us this look at downtown Fulton — one of the streets that locals would come to call the “Dizzy Block”. This is S. 1st St. as it looked sometime in the 1920s. This is just a small part of a great panoramic photo. Click the story to see the entire streetscape.
The Oswego State men’s basketball team lost its season opener 82-71 to Utica at Max Ziel Gymnasium on Tuesday night. Second half shooting proved to be the difference in the contest as the Pioneers shot 55.2 percent from the field on 16-of-29 shooting, while the Lakers went 14-of-39 for 35.9 percent.
Posted on Nov 18, 2009 at 8:23 pmThe Rudy’s Mite B Team captured two wins over the weekend against Valley and Lysander to start their regular season.
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United Way board member Jim Mahoney has announced that the plans are set for the United Way’s Annual ‘Stone Soup’ Holiday Luncheon.
Hannibal Village Market IGA is sponsoring the 12th annual Senior Citizens’ Christmas Luncheon to be held on December 8th, 2009, at the Hannibal Fire Department’s Recreation Hall.
Community News
October 30, 2009
Our October 24th meeting which coincided with archives day went quite well at our Richland facility. We had 30 for a sit down lunch at noon, and another 10 or so folks came in and out through the afternoon. At 1 pm we held a brief meeting of the society, our [...]
