At its meeting this week, the Common Council approved dedication of the street between City Hall and Pathfinder Bank as “John M. Canale Drive.” Canale has spent nearly three-quarters of his life as a teacher and was also a city alderman for more than two decades.
For his Eagle Scout project, Travis Kemp, a Boy Scout from Troop 715 in Fulton, completed and installed two picnic tables and two benches at Great Bear Springs Recreational Area. One picnic table was designed for handicapped accessibility compliant with ADA guidelines.
With 16 days remaining until the International Classic, the countdown continues with No. 16, Jack Murphy and Nolan Swift’s photo finish in the inaugural International Classic. The Murphy/Swift battle of ’57 was the race that launched the International Classic into an annual and very successful event. As the first 100-lap Classic neared its completion, Swift and Murphy, two of stock car racing’s most famous drivers, were hooked in a bitter battle.
Nine weeks after suffering a compression fracture to his lower back in a June 14 Pathfinder Bank Small Block Super incident at Oswego Speedway, Mike Bond has entered the Bud Light SBS Classic 75 at the ‘Steel Palace.’ Bond, a three time series champion and three time SBS Classic champion, plans to return to the seat in a limited role during the Speedway’s Small Block Super Twin 20 events this Saturday in preparation for Budweiser International Classic Weekend.
The Rural Health Network of Oswego County recently presented five $500 scholarships to area college students who are pursuing healthcare careers. The RHN includes many health and human services agencies and providers across Oswego County with the mission of the organization to improve the quality, affordability and availability of health care services in Oswego County by focusing key resources to address specific health care priorities and strengthen our local health care system.
A horse in southern Oswego County has died of the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, the Oswego County Health Department reported today (Aug. 15). The horse had been stabled near an area known to harbor the EEE virus in Oswego and Onondaga counties, and was probably exposed to EEE in late July, prior to the aerial spraying of the Toad Harbor – Three Mile Bay Wild Management Area.
Lynn F. Proper, 66, of Altmar, passed away Thursday August 14, 2014, at University Hospital in Syracuse.
Prolonged lake effect rains overnight and into Friday have forced Oswego Kartway officials to postpone the Justin Lamb Memorial to the Kartway’s Track Championship Night on August 22. With cool and cloudy conditions expected throughout the day, the track surface was deemed too saturated to be turned around for clean and effective racing tonight (Aug. 15). The Kartway returns to action on August 22 with the second annual Justin Lamb Memorial as well as Track Championship night.
Heather Bush has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Human Resources at Pathfinder Bank, according to Edward Mervine, senior vice president/general counsel.
Mary G. Harbottle, 91, a resident of Oswego, passed away on Thursday August 14, 2014, at the Morningstar Health Care Facility.
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