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Students Take Part in Hands-On Activities at Oswego Hospital Mash Camp

Local youths taking part in Oswego Hospital’s MASH Camp learned how to suture like a surgeon and also tried their hand at compounding medicines using candy. These skills were just a few of the many the campers, who will enter either the eighth or ninth grades this fall, experienced during the two-day camp designed to introduce healthcare careers to the youths.

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Charlotte’s Web is a Family Affair

Just two weeks from opening night, more than 30 children are rehearsing to bring the classic story of Charlotte’s Web to the stage at CNY Arts Center, 357 State St. in Fulton, Aug. 16 -18. The cast includes many children with no stage experience and multiple families involved in the action from the smallest gosling to the artistic staff.

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Oswego Daily News

Signs remind outdoor lovers to take precautions against mosquitoes

The signs were purchased through state funds sponsored by State Senator Patty Ritchie and are part of the “Fight the Bite” public education program to help raise awareness about West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis. In all, 276 signs were provided to public health departments in Oswego, Onondaga, Oneida and Madison counties.

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Sandra Scott Travels

Sandra Scott Travels: One of the most under promoted treasures of New York State

Welcome to the Erie CanalI think the Erie Canal is one of the most under promoted treasures of New York State. The building of the Erie Canal is considered an engineering marvel on the scale of the pyramids. In the early 1800s when New York governor, DeWitt Clinton proposed building a waterway that would connect the navigable Hudson River to Lake Erie by a 300-mile canal through the wilderness, Thomas Jefferson said, “It is a splendid project and may be executed a century hence… but it is a little short of madness to think of it at this day.”

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