Month: November 2018

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Letters to the Editor

Scott DelConte Supported Across The Political Spectrum

November 4, 2018 Contributor
Most states use appointment commissions or nonpartisan elections to select judges. New York’s system risks the same politicization of the bench that we see at the national level. Luckily, voters in the Fifth Judicial District, which includes Oswego, will get a breath of fresh air when they look at their ballots this year: a judicial candidate with support from across the political spectrum.

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Pictured is a historic image, circa 1918, of World War I veteran Jesse Merle Hewitt of Oswego. As a freshmen student of the Oswego Normal School (now SUNY Oswego), Hewitt and fellow students left college to enlist in the war. His plan was to return home and complete an Industrial Arts degree. He made the ultimate sacrifice as the first causality of the war from Oswego. He was also the only student from the Oswego Normal School that enlisted in the war that did not return home. The Hewitt Union student building on the SUNY Oswego campus was named in his honor in 1967. (Photograph Courtesy of Penfield Library Special Collection Department, SUNY Oswego)
Community

Oswego County Historical to Host a Lecture On Oswego County World War I Commemoration

November 4, 2018 Contributor
The Oswego County Historical Society will host a lecture entitled “Oswego County World War I Commemoration: Celebration, Remembrance & Reflection” on November 18 at 1:30 p.m. at the Community Room of the Oswego Public Library at 120 E. Second St. The event is free and open to the public.

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