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Election Day Dinner At United Baptist Church To Benefit Blessings In A Backpack

The second Tuesday of November not only brings Election Day but also the return of the Election Day Dinner at The United Baptist Church of Scriba. On November 7, the church will feature its famous ham and escalloped potato dinner that has become a popular tradition for both the church and the community.

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Filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya will make the keynote presentation at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, in Sheldon Hall ballroom for the 2017 Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference. Her films, such as "Catching the Sun" and "A Drop of Life," cite the economic opportunities as well as environmental benefits of the shift to renewable energy.
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Filmmaker, Eco-Activist To Headline 11th Annual Global Awareness Conference

Fulbright Scholar and TED fellow Shalini Kantayya, a filmmaker and eco-activist who maintains that sustainable energy is not just right for the environment, but has benefits for the economy as well, will make a free public keynote presentation at 7 p.m. Nov. 4, in Sheldon Hall ballroom for the 11th annual Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference.

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More People Discovering The Benefits of Yoga

With yoga becoming more popular, small cities like Oswego are able to have access to classes and receive its benefits. Yoga has even been labeled as a trend in the United States because of its exponential growth. “I don’t think it’s a trend,” Oswego Bikram Yoga studio owner, Sandy Eby said. “It’s going to get bigger. It’s here to stay.”

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The rocket named “Budd” blasts off during the Volney Elementary School 6th grade rocket launch event, a culmination activity to a recent academic unit.
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Rocketry Lesson Also Teaches Perseverance To Volney 6th Graders

For Volney sixth graders, the introduction to rocketry began with three Newton’s Laws of Motion: objects at rest will stay at rest, and objects in motion will stay in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force; force is equal to mass times execration; and for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

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Oswego County Clerk Now Offers E-Z Passes

“We are working with the New York State Thruway Authority as a retailer in the E-ZPass On-the-Go Program,” the county clerk said. “This provides us an opportunity to better serve our customers by saving them time and money before they get on the road. People can get an E-ZPass quickly and efficiently without having to wait in line to fill out an application or to receive tags in the mail. Once they buy and register the device, they can begin using it immediately.”

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Help Senator Ritchie Send Christmas Cards To Our Troops

The holidays are a time to get the family together and celebrate the ‘most wonderful time of the year.’ Unfortunately, for many families here in the New York and across the country, that is just not possible. Many of our Armed Forces members, including Fort Drum soldiers, will be spending the holidays on out-of-state military installations, overseas, or in a military or veterans’ hospital.

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