The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 24 Oswego, is offering a Boating Safely class on May 7 at the Sandy Pond Sportsman Association, 3201 County Route 15, Pulaski from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Successful completion of this class will result in a Boating Safety Certificate.
On Thursday (April 6) in the late evening hours, Americans learned that President of the United States Donald Trump had issued an attack on an airfield in Syria. Congressman John Katko said the attack from the United States was a proportional response. Senator Charles Schumer expressed that the U.S. response was the right thing to do. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said a response was demanded from the United States and the world community following Syria’s recent use of chemical warfare. The U.S. attack was in response to a chemical weapons attack initiated on innocent Syrian civilians on Tuesday (April 4) by the hands of Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, President Trump said in a three minute press briefing last night (April 6.)
The Family Video movie rental store in Fulton has used spare change to raise more than $800 for Lymphoma research. As part of the annual “Round-It-Up” campaign, Family Video customers were offered the opportunity to donate the change of every purchase, rounded to the nearest dollar, to the Lymphoma Research Foundation and the Bio Bank at the University of Chicago.
Operators returned Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station Unit 1
to full power early this morning (April 7), successfully completing a scheduled refueling outage that began in late March. More than 1,200 additional workers joined the Nine Mile employees to complete the refueling outage.
The news team at Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Elementary School were featured guests in the studios at News Channel 9 WSYR-TV studios in Syracuse recently. The students who have been doing their own version of the morning news at APW Elementary this school year got a behind the scenes look at how the local television station runs.
We had a late start to our annual winter building remodeling work. However, the work is continuing at a brisk pace and we expect to be back in full operation by mid-April. Each year we normally choose a project in December and utilizing the Oswego County Sheriff’s work release program, as well as our own volunteers, focus for six or seven weeks. Due to the refueling outage at the FitzPatrick plant in Scriba during January and February, our normal contingent of Entergy volunteers was curtailed in their contributions to this effort. Since then through March we have made up for lost time.
United Way of Greater Oswego County will hold its annual Stone Soup Too community luncheon April 11 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Hosted by Holy Trinity Parish, 309 Buffalo St., the luncheon helps raise awareness of hunger in Oswego County and encouraging the community to help fill the shelves of local food pantries.
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