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Rudy’s to provide Salvation Army Guest Chef Dinner

Rudy’s Lakeside Drive-in will provide the Oswego County Salvation Army’s Guest Chef Dinner on March 18, with dining room and take-out service from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The meal will include clams, fish, coleslaw, salt potatoes, and macaroni salad, along with desserts and beverages provided by members of the advisory board.

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The 444th Engineer Company based at Oswego - Troops from the Oswego U.S. Army Reserve Center repaired and marked IED (Improvised Explosive Device) locations in Iraq in 2007-08. In 2011-12 the 444th Engineer Company based at Oswego deployed to Afghanistan and suffered three men killed and one severely wounded.
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Fort Ontario Receives Certificate of Appreciation

At the 99th annual Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce annual meeting held March 5 at the River Vista Center in Fulton, Executive Director Greg Mills presented Fort Ontario State Historic Site with a certificate of appreciation in recognition of 260 years as a member of the Oswego County business community. Fort Ontario and the Port of Oswego Authority represent Oswego County’s oldest active businesses.

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Emergency Management Office mails tone-alert radio batteries

Replacement batteries have been mailed from the Oswego County Emergency Management Office to county residents who have an emergency planning tone-alert weather radio. Director Dale A. Currier said that replacement batteries are mailed to residents on an annual basis to ensure proper operation of these radios.

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Fulbright To Send Oswego Professor To Finland For Teaching, Research

The Fulbright Scholar program has awarded Christopher Harris of the SUNY Oswego computer science faculty an opportunity to travel to Finland this August for nearly a year to explore cross-cultural user experience and user design, plus a variety of other research and teaching interests in human-computer interaction and business.

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Oswego firefighters respond to a blaze in the city's west side shortly after midnight today (March 15). OFD photo
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Oswego Fire Department Battles Blaze On West Side

UPDATE: They are not sure how many people were living there or if it was a fraternity house. They are looking into whether this is an official fraternity house. The fire is under investigation and OFD still has personnel on the scene searching for the origin and cause.
Oswego Fire Department crews were dispatched to a structure fire just after midnight at 110 W. Bridge St., near West Eighth Street. First arriving crews reported smoke showing from the two and a half-story multi-family dwelling, with the duty officer reporting an active fire seconds later.

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