Your Milestones
Hannibal Grad Completes Basic Training
Air Force Airman Leslie A. Gerbes graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
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Health
Protect Your Family from Whooping Cough
With the holiday season fast approaching, families will be gathering to share meals, gifts and sometimes germs. One thing they could be sharing is pertussis, or whooping cough as many people know it. Pertussis is a very serious and contagious disease that is especially dangerous to infants who have not been fully vaccinated.
Pet Health
Buddy & Porky’s Pet Health: A Parrot for a Pet?
Dear Porky & Buddy,
I know that you mostly answer cat and dog questions, but maybe you can point me in the right direction about choosing another kind of pet—a bird. I would love to have a parrot in my house. They are so interesting. Do you think that is a good idea? What should I do to go about finding one and caring for it?
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Clara R. Curro, 96
Clara R. Curro, 96, of Oswego and Royal Palm Beach, Florida, passed away November 26, 2010 in Florida.
Sports
Brewerton And Fulton Speedways Look Ahead To 2011
Some announcements to clear up the rumor mills about the Brewerton and Fulton Speedways in 2011 and where the classes and tracks are heading.
Arts and Entertainment
Oswego School Concert Season Arrives
Numerous concerts are scheduled in the upcoming weeks with the first concert slated for Nov. 30 when the Kingsford Park Elementary School band, choral and strings will be in concert at the Oswego Ralph M. Faust Theatre for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m.
Dowdle Funeral Home
Lisa Lynn Fetterley (Knopp), 44
Lisa Lynn Fetterley (Knopp), 44, passed away suddenly on Saturday Nov. 27, 2010, at her mother’s house surrounded by her family.
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Janice A. Deveney, 70
Janice A. Deveney, 70 and a resident of 819 County Route 85 in the Town of Hannibal, died Thursday at University Hospital in Syracuse.
Sugar and Sugar Scanlon Funeral Homes
Helen L. McNamara, 97
Helen L. McNamara, 97; formerly of Fulton died Thursday, November 25th at her granddaughter’s home in Etna, NY.
Dowdle Funeral Home
Teresa A. Reedy
Teresa A. Reedy, born, Aug. 13, 1938, and who was a resident of 174 E. Seneca St., passed away peacefully with her family at her side on Friday Nov. 26, 2010, at University Hospital in Syracuse.