Three students enrolled in the Floral Design and Greenhouse Technology program at Oswego County BOCES recently attended the New York FFA 212/360 leadership conference in Syracuse. The 360 Conference takes student full circle through chapter leadership development, and helps them to realize the potential they have to impact their schools and community.
Students at Fairgrieve Elementary School were recognized for their exemplary demonstration of the February district-wide expectation of honesty. The students were recognized during the school’s morning express meeting.
Basketball fever is running rampant at the Fulton Junior High School, resulting in a widespread outbreak of kindness and compassion. What caused the fever? A “Move To Include” Basketball Game that was coordinated by the school’s Friends of Rachel (FOR) Club in cooperation with the school’s student council and a local non-profit organization known as Move Along, Inc.
Charles F. Bertollini, 93, of Fulton, passed away Wednesday February 5, 2014, at St. Luke Residential Health Services in Oswego.
On February 23, local award-winning author Rich Finzer and culinary arts instructor Diane Sokolowski will present a program on tapping maple syrup and innovative ways to use it in recipes. The program, which begins at 3 p.m., is sponsored by the CNY Arts Center and will take place at the Arts in the HeART Gallery in Fulton.
The Oswego City Firefighters raised the money by selling specially designed pink T-shirts in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. All proceeds will be used towards medical expenses that uninsured Oswego County residents face when obtaining life saving cancer screenings and diagnostic services.
The Greater Pulaski Community Endowment Fund awarded $10,200 to six organizations that serve the Pulaski area.
Assemblyman Will Barclay criticized the Governor’s proposal of publicly-financed campaigns in his executive budget. “This is not the direction our state should be headed. Passing this measure in the budget will unnecessarily add millions of dollars to the tax burden New Yorker’s already carry,” said Barclay.
I was talking to a friend about my plans for a new garden this spring which I want to make safe and enjoyable by my cats, Tom, Dick, and Harry. (It is how I get through January and February without going nuts.) Anyway, I mentioned that I planned to include a big patch of catnip and she launched into a long and angry lecture about how I should not do that because it is a “drug” that makes cats “high” and is not good for them.
Clouds and some sun today with flurries. High near 20.
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