Fulton Daily News
Weather Notebook For August 4, 2011
OK, we got the rain out of our system. Now for a nice stretch.
Month: August 2011
Community
Muscular Dystrophy Benefit To Be Held In Fulton
On Aug. 27, the Bilou Skating Rink on State Route 3 in Fulton will host a “Zumba Challenge” to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Registration starts at 10:30 a.m. the same day.
Community
Noone Concert Had ‘Family Feeling’
Sunday was a different sort of Harborfest for many who attended the day’s events. Fewer visitors, appeared to fill the venues, but most definitely a family feeling with familiar faces everyone. Many folks connected with people they hadn’t seen in town since last year’s event! Nowhere was this more true than at Breitbeck Park where Herman’s Hermit’s front man, Peter Noone, put on a fabulous show.
Oswego Daily News
Save The City Trees
In the city of Oswego too many city trees are being cut down in neighborhoods, not because they are diseased or a hazard, but because they’re in the way of someone wanting more parking spaces. As the co-founder of the Oswego Tree Stewards, I’ve learned a number of facts about trees I’d like to talk to you, the public, about.
Community
Breakfast Cooks Up Support For Stuff-A-Bus
Dozens of community members and visitors filled the Clubhouse Tavern for the United Way’s sixth annual Harborfest Breakfast. Held Saturday, July 30 event raised more than $3,400 for the agency’s annual Stuff-A-Bus campaign.
Community
College’s EOP Summer Program Students Volunteer at Harborfest
More than 90 SUNY Oswego incoming freshmen who attended the Educational Opportunity Program’s four-week college preparatory program volunteered to help in a wide variety of jobs at the 2011 Harborfest on July 29.
Oswego Daily News
July Was One Of The Warmest On Record
The average temperature last month was 74.0 degrees. That is 3.2 degrees warmer than normal. “That makes it the seventh warmest July since 1845,” according to Bill Gregway, local observer for the National Weather Service. “Last July wound up number six; it was 74.1.”
Community
Spiritually Speaking, by Rev. Connie Seifert
It has been a long time since I submitted a column. Life has been full of major changes and upheavals. The major ones of the past few months are: 1) I have moved. 2) My dog was […]
Community
Ritchie Hosts Mobile Office Hours Thursday in Central Square
State Senator Patty Ritchie will host her second Oswego County “Mobile District Office,” on Thursday, August 4, from 4 PM to 6 PM, at Central Square Village Hall, 3125 East Avenue. Constituent Service staff from […]
Oswego Health
Auxiliary Dedicates Display Case to Former Director
Members of the Oswego Health Auxiliary have dedicated a display case just off Oswego Hospital’s main lobby in memory of Mary Ann Chamberlain. Chamberlain was Director of Volunteer Services at Oswego Hospital from 1996 to July 2010, when she unexpectedly passed away.