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Warm Up Oswego To Melt Away the Winter Blues

Melt away the “winter blues” on February 7 for the 10th annual Warm Up Oswego Festival. The hottest winter festival in CNY is lead this year by the Oswego Network of Entrepreneurs and promises the best festival yet. “We will have all the great activities that fest-goers have come to love, with a new footprint for the festival!” said Nathan Emmons, festival chair.

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Fulton Rotarians Receive Healthy Update

At a recent Fulton Sunrise Rotary meeting, Rotarian Linda Egan introduced Diane Oldenburg, senior health educator for Oswego County. Diane presented an interesting slide program about the County’s Health Improvement Projects, starting with assessment, formulating goals and then beginning programs to inform and educate the public.

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Attention Landowners – Oswego County Agricultural District in Review

Every eight years it is required by law to review Agricultural Districts in New York State. Ag Districts were created by an act of the Legislature in 1971 to protect and promote the availability of land for farming purposes; they are intended to counteract the impact that non-farm development has upon the continuation of farm businesses by providing a framework limiting unreasonable local regulation on farm practices.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads singing marchers from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965, in a photograph made by Matt Herron, who as a young man volunteered to document the civil rights movement in the South for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. With themes of race and identity still at the forefront nationally, Herron's work will be front and center as Syracuse Stage, ArtRage Gallery and SUNY Oswego and its Metro Center have team on a series of exhibitions, performances and conversations titled, collectively, "race.place.being." (Photo courtesy of Matt Herron, all rights reserved.)
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As Selma milestone nears, race and identity to take center stage in CNY arts

A collaboration of Syracuse Stage, ArtRage Gallery and SUNY Oswego and its Metro Center keys on the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery, the aftermath of apartheid and recent searing national events in order to frame a community-wide series of arts presentations and conversations about race and identity starting this month.

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