Oswego Daily News

Alleycat Sets The Bar To Combat Underage Drinking

Another college weekend is down in the books and Alleycat of Oswego has no plans of stopping the extra measures they’ve implemented to ensure the law on underage drinking is upheld.
Alleycat, a downtown Oswego bar and state registered night club located at 23 W. Bridge Street, has enacted multiple procedures to make certain that underage drinking is curbed to the fullest extent possible within the establishment.

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Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay

Nuclear Power is Critical to New York’s Future

Last week brought the unwelcome news that Entergy, the company that owns and operates the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, is considering shutting down the facility. If this is to come to pass, the consequences to the local community and Central New York would be catastrophic.

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Pictured is an early 18th century French pistol lock with its lead and flint, found intact during archeological excavations at Fort Ontario in 1984. A weapon of the same era was used when Lt. Basil Dunbar was shot through the lungs with a pistol ball and died on Oct. 12, 1759. In 1902 Dunbar’s remains and his headstone were found under 12 feet of earth within the fort’s earthworks when they were scraped away to level the area of officers’ row in 1903-05.
Oswego Daily News

Fort Ontario Ghost Tours and Reveal Set for Oct. 16 and 17

The Friends of Fort Ontario and Central New York Ghost Hunters will present the annual Ghost Tours and Reveal event at Fort Ontario State Historic Site Friday and Saturday evenings, Oct. 16 and 17. “Fort Ontario is purported to be one of the most haunted locations in the United States, and was the subject of an episode of the SYFY Channel’s Ghost Hunters show in 2012,” said Fort Supervisor Paul Lear.

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Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra will appear at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26, in SUNY Oswego's Hewitt Union ballroom in an Artswego Performing Artist Series concert in partnership with the college's ALANA Student Leadership Conference. The Brooklyn-based group offers its own brand of salsa, frequently covering such indie bands as Arcade Fire and The Black Keys. Audience members may experience WSO concert-style or use the dance floor with members of La Familia de la Salsa of Syracuse.
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Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra To Bring Inventive Latin beat to SUNY Oswego

Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra will offer Latin dance music influenced by indie rock at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26, in Hewitt Union ballroom at SUNY Oswego. Based in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, WSO thrives on high-energy salsa dura arrangements of contemporary indie rock tunes — an unlikely meld that is winning notice far beyond the city.

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