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The following notice has been posted for Lake Ontario waters:

Remember the area around the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility is off limits to boating. The restricted area stretches 1,000 yards offshore and extends from the Alcan plant to the Sunset Bay area along Lake Ontario, east of the city of Oswego.

The following notice has been posted for Lake Ontario waters:Remember the area around the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Facility is off limits to boating. The restricted area stretches 1,000 yards offshore and extends from the Alcan plant to the Sunset Bay area along Lake Ontario, east of the city of Oswego.

RaiderNet Daily: Packing For Home

Foreign exchange students begin to wind down a school year in Fulton.?Â Also, advisory students put in a little community service and students figure out what they’re doing for the weekend.

Unemployment Drops in Oswego County in April

Unemployment in Oswego County took a big step back from the cliff in April.Â The jobless rate dropped from 10.7% in March to 9.1% in April.Â A state analyst said the improvement is good news but doesn’t mean the state has recovered from its recession.

Oswego County DSS Hosts Orientation Meeting June 8 on Foster Parenting and Adoption

Foster and adoptive families are needed in Oswego County for children who range in age from birth to 21. Children awaiting adoption typically are eight years old and older, and have special needs.

With Fort Ontario Closed, Local Officials Will Ask State If Volunteers Can Run The Site

The sign on the gate at Fort Ontario tells the story -- closed for the season, or, at least until state lawmakers come up with a budget that funds state parks.

Local officials are not willing to let Fort Ontario sit idle for the entire summer.

At a meeting of the county’s Tourism Advisory Council this week, county officials and local tourism business owners decided to ask the state if there’s a way to get the fort open. Fort Ontario is one of 55 state parks, historic sites and golf courses that either closed or were not allowed to open for the summer because state lawmakers have not approved a state budget yet.

Oswego County Featured in New Children’s Book

Cambridge Books has just released Postcards from Mr. Pish, a new childrenâ€™s book by K. S. Brooks. It is currently available on Amazon.com and will become available through bookstores and other online venues soon.

Teen With Paint Ball Gun Charged

A 16-year-old boy was charged this afternoon with unlawful possession of a weapon on school grounds for allegedly having a paint ball gun on school grounds at OMS.

RaiderNet Daily: Throwing Strikes

The Raider softball squad raised a ton of money for the Golisano Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, in honor of a young woman who would have been a part of their team if not for cancer.Â Also today, G. Ray Bodley students take part in the Special Olympics and students with perfect attendance get a free breakfast.

Horse Owner Sentenced to Prison in Cruelty Case that Involved Granby Woman

Lucky Val kicks up her heels in this photo from 2009. Val was one of the horses rescued by Lisa Leogrande and is shown during recovery at Leogrande's Triple L Stables in Granby.

A case of animal cruelty in Eastern New York is complete, with the sentencing of a prominent horse owner and breeder.Â The case began with a Granby woman, who sounded the alarm over the condition of dozens of the owner’s horses, who had been sold to be slaughtered for horsemeat.

See a gallery of photos of the rescued horses.

Report: Upstate New Yorkers Unnecessarily Use the ER

Upstate New Yorkers made more than 640,000 trips to emergency rooms for sore throats, earaches and other minor medical problems in 2008, raising concerns that such trips are straining already overcrowded ERs, according to a new Excellus BlueCross BlueShield report.