Assemblyman Will Barclay presented Beacon Hotel owners and Oswego residents Atom and Falecia Avery with a state resolution, congratulating them on receiving the 2014 Small Business Excellence Award. The couple founded the 14-room hotel in 2011 after completing extensive renovations.
The Oswego State intercollegiate athletics department has named Drew Bezek its next men’s lacrosse head coach. Bezek will start immediately in his new role, beginning preparations for the upcoming spring season.
The congregation of Journey of Faith United Methodist Church is preparing for Live Nativity and Nativities by Candlelight to be held on December 13 from 6 until 7:30 p.m. Church members will present a tableau of the special night at Bethlehem when Christ was born in the manger. The scene, which also includes live animals, will take place outside in the shed.
Across the country young adults today, often called the millennial generation, are more likely to be foreign born and speak a language other than English at home, compared with young adults in 1980, and in Oswego County they are more likely to earn less and live in poverty than they did thirty years ago.
“What we’re asking for is the same as we have been asking for the last 20 years or so,” Doug Buske, executive director of Oswego Harbor Festivals, Inc., told the committee. “The same parking, the same parks, the same spaces. All we need is the space we had last year.” He also agreed to address some councilors’ concerns regarding safety along Lake Street near the marina area.
Judith L. Samuels Cole, 68, passed away on Saturday November 29, 2014, at her home in The Villages, Florida.
State Police in Pulaski are investigating a fatal one-car crash that occurred on December 2 at approximately 7 a.m. on Frank Lacy Road in the town of Richland. The investigation has revealed a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox, operated by Tyler J. Spicer, 36, from Pulaski, was westbound on Frank Lacy Road, a half-mile east of State Route 11.
As president and chief executive officer of WCNY Public Media since 2005, Robert J. Daino has launched a number of groundbreaking projects, including Centralcast, which makes the Syracuse-based station a hub for public broadcasting content in the Northeast.
“We are extremely proud of the academic accomplishments our teams and athletes have seen over the years,” said Oswego City School District Athletic Director Mike Connors. “This scholar athlete recognition from the New York State Public High School Athletic Association is something our teams, athletes, coaches and district strive for every season, and we applaud their success and excellence.”
With the recent announcement of Oswego Kartway and the New York Dirt Kart Series teaming up for a stretch of qualifying events in 2015, Kartway fans should take note of several Kartway regulars earning post season honors at the annual NYDKS banquet commending their 2014 accomplishments.
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