Month: August 2009
Obama: May Be Seeing Beginning of Recession’s End
Ticket Sales ‘Brisk’ For 7th Annual Fulton Lions Loot
Do This Tonight: Jazz Fest Returns
It’s been a few years, but an old friend is back in town.
Fulton’s Jazz Fest opens tonight, renewing the festival that ran for years in downtown Fulton. The event has a new home — behind the War Memorial. Bring your own lawn chairs to enjoy two days of great music.
Below is tonight’s prime time entertainment, The Critics honr section with the Cortini Brothers rhythm section, seen here at Fulton’s Rock The Block event.

The full schedule:
Friday:
5:30 p.m.: The Do Good Swing Band
8:00 p.m.: The Critics with the Cortini Bros.
Saturday:
3:00 p.m.: Melvin Sparks
6:00 p.m.: Nancy Kelly
8:00 p.m.: Classified
Can’t make Jazz Fest? How about the Fort Ontario Festival of the Arts on Saturday in Oswego or the annual Minetto Canal Splash fun canoe and kayak race at the Magic in Minetto festival.

Hey, do ’em all!
What Makes Today So Special?
Classified to Perform at Jazz Fest in Fulton
Formed in the early 90’s the band brought together a number of talented Central New York musicians who had performed with some of the top acts in the area. The collective resume of the members was so long that it looked like a ‘classified’ ad, as a result the name Classified stuck and the band began its mission of EOE, equal opportunity entertainment for all.
Scene Around Town: A Waterspout In Oswego
A waterspout is, essentially, a water tornado.

Read the whole story to get a visual explanation of what waterspouts are.
McHugh’s Nomination On Hold; Conservatives Pick A Candidate Today
Both of Kansas’s US Senators say they’ve put a hold on McHugh’s nomination and 9 others because they want their state’s military prison taken off the list of prisons to be used to house prisoners moved from the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay when it closes next year.
Oswego County Plans Aerial Spraying Saturday Evening
Maxwell: Police Made Errors In Drafting My Statements
Maxwell was pressed about the statements she gave to police on August 30, the day after Erin died, and on September 11.
Maxwell has said in court that Erin “could have pushed on the hinge side of the door and it would have come right off.” Prosecutor Mark Moody asked her why that wasn’t in the statement she gave to police, which she reviewed and then signed.



