Month: August 2014

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Sports

Burke’s Do-It-Best-Home Centers Present Action Filled Racing Saturday At Fulton Speedway

August 21, 2014 Contributor

If you’re looking for a night of family, affordable fun with high speed racing excitement, the Fulton Speedway is the place for you this Saturday. On the action packed race card presented by Burke’s-Do-It-Best Home Centers night is the Tracey Road Equipment DIRTcar Modifieds, SUNY Canton Sportsman, NAPA Late Models, E&V Energy Novice Sportsman, A-Verdi Storage Containers 305 Sprints, Hilton’s Automotive Four Cylinders plus the Pro Race Cars Mod Lites.

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Pat Lavery has sat on the pole position for Oswego Speedway's Budweiser International Classic three of the last four years in the Lighthouse Lanes No. 22 Supermodified.
Sports

‘Fast 14’ Super Time Trials are Important First Step to Classic Qualifying; 15.9-Second Lap on the Horizon

August 20, 2014 Contributor

Oswego Speedway’s 58th annual Budweiser International Classic Weekend will kick off on August 29 with Corr/Pak Merchandising ‘Fast Friday’ featuring ‘Fast 14’ pole day time trials for the Budweiser International Classic 200 at 6 p.m. Unlike in previous seasons, Friday night’s ‘Fast 14’ Supermodified pole day time trials will take on a new sense of tension and importance, as only the ‘Fast 14’ times will be locked into the Budweiser International Classic 200 on August 31.

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Oswego Daily News

Transfer Station Advisory Committee Offers Recommendations

August 20, 2014 Steve Yablonski

On Wednesday night, the sub-committee presented a variety of suggestions to save the county’s transfer stations open while also being fiscally responsible to all taxpayers. The Infrastructure Committee will likely take a few weeks to consider all the recommendations. A final proposal might not make it to the floor of the legislature until near the end of the year.

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Joe Gosek looks for room around Cliff Graves and Pat Abold on his way to the 1991 Oswego International Classic victory.
Sports

‘Classic Moments’ Countdown: #11 Joe Gosek Wins his First Classic – 1991 International Classic

August 20, 2014 Contributor

With 11 days remaining until the International Classic, the countdown continues with No. 11, Joe Gosek’s first International Classic win in 1991. Popular Oswego driver Joe Gosek, came into the ’91 Classic as a dozen year veteran of the event, still looking for that elusive first Classic victory, despite being considered a bonafide contender the last several years.

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Letters to the Editor

Bev Wilcox Remembered

August 20, 2014 Submitted article

Bev Wilcox, a friend of ours and certainly a friend to many others, recently passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Bev worked as a greeter at the Granby Wal-Mart so it seems fitting that as people walked through the front door, they observed a small table upon which a vase with flowers and her name tag ~ BEV ~ was placed at the spot where she would have stood.

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Oswego Daily News

Five Positive EEE Mosquito Samples found in Oswego County

August 20, 2014 Contributor

The Oswego County Health Department reported today (Aug. 20) that the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus has been found in five new mosquito samples collected last week. They were taken from West Monroe’s Toad Harbor Big Bay Swamp area. Of the four samples taken there, one was also positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). A sample from Hastings collected last week was also positive for EEE.

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