Students Emma Lawler, Lilly Duschen, Anyssia Ingersoll and Adrianna Denton hold up bags of trash collected during a recent field trip to Selkirk Shores State Park where the entire seventh grade class learned about aquatic ecology.
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Mexico Middle School 7th Graders Learn Aquatic Ecology On Field Trips

Relaxation on a sunny day, dipping toes in cool water and feeling sand in between your toes are all privileges community residents having living so close to New York State park beach access. About 150 Mexico Middle School seventh graders recently learned that all of those benefits may be interrupted or impossible if people don’t start taking better care of their environment.

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Poverty, Opioid Crisis Go Hand In Hand, Says Oswego Mayor

In order to fight the importation, selling and usage of opioids in the Port City, the poverty crisis must be fought as well, said Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow. “We are trying to implement programs that will better position people from the start,” Barlow said. “If people are on the right track and feel good about themselves and have children, they’re taking the children to school, they’re going to work, they’re less likely to fall into that trap.” In Oswego City, 29 percent of people live in poverty, according to a 2017 Oswego needs assessment done by consultants at CGR Inc. The assessment was part of the Learn, Identify, Focus and Transform Oswego anti-poverty program established by the city and Oswego County Opportunities.

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