Month: August 2018

Oswego Daily News

Military Monument Restoration Initiative Under Way In Oswego

August 15, 2018 Contributor
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I this November, Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow has announced an initiative to clean and restore the many war memorial monuments throughout the city in several parks. The initiative has already started with the Oak Hill Park World War I monument and the World War I memorial bench in Franklin Square receiving attention last week.

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Porky and Buddy Pet Health – What About The New Tick?

August 15, 2018 Contributor
I read about this new tick, the East Asian tick, which has been found in New Jersey and Long Island and is thought to be heading north. I already have a lot of other stuff to worry about with my dog, Zack – fleas, rabies, dog flu. You name it. I worry about it. Should I be worried about this new tick, too?

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SUNY Oswego's 2018 Living Writers Series will welcome eight authors from a variety of genres, including Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, a recent Syracuse University graduate whose book "Friday Black" comes out in October to advance plaudits.
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Eco-Poet To Headline Wide-Ranging Living Writers Series at SUNY Oswego

August 15, 2018 Contributor
Award-winning poet Rebecca Dunham — author of “Cold Pastoral: Poems,” a collection that elegizes manmade disasters from the Deepwater Horizon oil platform to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis — will join this fall’s SUNY Oswego Living Writers Series, a roster that includes a playwright, nonfiction writer, novelist, short story writer and other published authors.

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