As students in Central and Northern New York prepare to head back to the classroom, State Senator Patty Ritchie is releasing the results of her 2013 School Survey, which shows that most people think area schools are “excellent” but have concerns about more rigid standards under the state’s new Common Core as well as bullying in schools.
This Saturday night, August 31st will be the final points night of the 2013 racing season as the Fulton Speedway will crown track champions. Right after that things will be put in high gear with all roads leading to the prestigious, 28th Annual Outlaw 200 Weekend at the route 57 speedway.
Participants in Catholic Charities’ Family Education, Family Support Services, and Relatives Raising Relatives programs were recently treated to a group picnic at Scriba Town Park. Twenty-nine families gathered for a day of fun and networking.
Opening speakers for this year’s Ernst & Young Lectures Series at SUNY Oswego include three Oswego faculty members and one of Syracuse University’s Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows. The 2013-14 lectures will be at 6 p.m. on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Campus Center auditorium. The series complements the “Gender and Workplace” course, part of Oswego’s women’s studies program.
Local favorites, F5 will be rocking the after ride celebration of the Child Advocacy Center’s 10th Annual Blue Ribbon Ride Against Child Abuse. To be held September 7, the celebration will begin at 5 p.m. at Lighthouse Lanes, Shampine Drive in Oswego. The event includes a chicken BBQ, drawings for themed gift baskets and other items including an official hockey stick signed by team members of the 2013 Calder Cup finalist Syracuse Crunch.
The college will receive $139,500 over two years to pilot the program at Oswego Middle School, part of a $2.95 million grant the National Science Foundation awarded to the SUNY system, the New York Academy of Sciences and SUNY Empire State College to bring to scale a mentoring program that has been successful downstate.
EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 486, located at the Oswego County Airport, County Route 176, Fulton, will partner with the FR Sussey Composite Squadron (Civil Air Patrol) on September 8 from 7 a.m. to noon to honor our Emergency organizations and our Veterans and especially to pay tribute to the victims of 9/11.
The Wooden-Apple Farmstead in Palermo, NY is hosting the first Wooden-Apple Music Festival on September 1 from 2 until 8 p.m. The day’s lineup includes Lois Dixon & the Olives, Gina Holsopple, The Polashenskis and more! The festival will conclude with an open mic and storytelling,
Dylan F. Corten, 17, of 78 Great Oak Lane in Pleasantville was arrested on a felony drug charge Wednesday evening at his Oneida Hall residence at SUNY Oswego. University Police accused him of selling Ritalin, a prescription drug, to a plainclothes officer.
Lawrence W. Ibbs, 71, of Wolcott, passed away Tuesday August 20, 2013, at Rochester General Hospital after a long illness.
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