Year: 2016

SUNY Oswego freshman biology major Vanessa Gonzales is among an incoming student group that is the most diverse in the college's history and with a rising number of STEM majors. "It definitely feels like home," she said.
Community

Most Culturally, Geographically Diverse Class Enters SUNY Oswego

October 10, 2016 Contributor

The most culturally diverse class ever to enter SUNY Oswego also comes to campus from farther outside the region: The class of 2020 includes nearly 300 freshmen from New York City, six from Washington, D.C., and scores of students from 14 other states and 18 countries. This fall’s enrollment of freshmen from Oswego and its six contiguous counties likely is the smallest ever, estimated at 248 among the 1,445 total freshmen.

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Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay

New 529 ABLE Savings Accounts Will Help Individuals with Disabilities

October 10, 2016 Contributor

Individuals with disabilities and their family members will soon have a new way to save and plan for future expenses with the creation of the 529 Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) program. The ABLE program is similar to the successful 529 College Savings Account program. ABLE accounts are a tax-advantaged savings account that individuals with disabilities can use to pay for qualified expenses.

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Fulton Daily News

Fulton Police Taking Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs Oct. 22 At Kinney Drugs

October 10, 2016 Contributor

On October 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the City of Fulton Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your pills for disposal to Kinney Drugs at 115 Oneida St.

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Community

Family And Friends Weekend To Showcase SUNY Oswego Arts, Athletics, Entertainment

October 10, 2016 Contributor

Visitors will be off to see the Wizard, the season’s first hockey exhibition games, the planetarium, an artists’ reception at newly modernized Tyler Art Gallery and maybe even a splash-in showing of “Zootopia” — all at SUNY Oswego’s Family and Friends Weekend from Friday, Oct. 21, through Sunday, Oct. 23.

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Sports

Late-Race Heroics Score Friesen Fifth NAPA Super DIRT Week Crown

October 10, 2016 Contributor

The 45th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week concluded with Sprackers, NY’s, Stewart Friesen, making a late-race pass to claim his third-straight, fifth overall NAPA Super DIRT Week Bud Light 200 and the $50,000 payday. Tim Fuller in the 358-Modified division held off a charging Stewart Friesen in the Riccelli-Northern Salute the Troops 100 after leading wire-to-wire for the win. David Marcuccilli held on to win the Sportsman Chevy Performance 50 Championship. And Rob Yetman was victorious in the Pro Stock 30 Final.

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