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Oswego Daily News

Correction: Aubertine’s Member Items Were $400,000 Larger

In our story yesterday, “Oswego County’s Cut Of The Pork Barrel: $600,000“, we missed a large line item for the county.

State Senator Darrel Aubertine secured $100,000 for the Michaud Nursing Home in Fulton to help the nursing home buy and install a kitchen to cook for the nursing home’s residents. The kitchen at Lee Memorial Hospital closed when the hospital closed.

The money was not in a line item under Aubertine’s name, but was part of a package of pork barrel items belonging to the Upstate Senate Delegation. Various coalitions of legislators received pork barrel funds to dole out, including the upstate Senators, a coalition of suburban Senators, separate delegations from Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, a conference of black Senators and one of Latin Senators.

Aubertine’s district received $400,000 in that package, bringing his direct total to $1.4 million, and the amount for Oswego County, with Assembly members’ pork items added in, to $700,000.  Aubertine would, therefore, not have the lowest member item amount among majority Democrats.

The Senator’s spokesman, Drew Mangione, led us to this better information and we thank him and make this correction.

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Fulton Daily News

Fulton Library Passes Halfway Point In Drive To Renovate

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The Fulton Public Library is busier than ever and is on the verge of substantial improvements to its aging home.

The library is more than halfway to its goal of raising $204,500 to build its first-ever elevator for the four-story building. The money will also begin the job of fixing up the bottom floor of the library, a place that’s been off-limits for the public for decades.

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Arts and Entertainment

The Oswego Children’s Theater Presents a Second Weekend of “The Road to Oz.”

Starting Friday July, 31 The Oswego Children’s Theater will present a second weekend of their latest production “The Road to Oz”. The show is adapted from the fifth of fourteen books written about Oz by author, L. Frank Baum.

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Sports

Big Block Modified Super DIRTcar Series To Visit Brewerton Speedway On Friday, August 7th For Summit Motors 100

The Big Block Modified Super DIRTcar Series will visit Brewerton Speedway on Friday, August 7 for the Summit Motors 100. The event is sure to be hotly contested at the D-shaped Dirt Demon. The Empire State IMCA Modified Series race and ESDCA Mod Lite Championship will also be part of the sure to be action packed three division show of professional motorsports competition. Race time is set for 7:30 p.m.

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Oswego Daily News

County Takes Wait & See Approach To Slaughterhouse Proposal

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County lawmakers have decided to seek more information from Bion Environmental Technologies before making any decisions regarding the companies plan to start a business somewhere in the county. If Bion’s slaughterhouse plan becomes a reality, it would bring more than 70,000 head of beef cattle into the county.

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