The jobless rate stood at 9.4% in September and had hit the 10% level earlier in the year. A year ago, the jobless rate was just beginning to rise. It stood at 6.6%.
The company that changed the way America eats is being sold.
Birds Eye Foods, which employs about 250 people at its plant in Fulton at last word, is being bought by Blackstone Group LP’s Pinnacle Foods Group for $1.3 billion.
Emma Donath, in the Toddler Room at Discovery Day Care, is using her Sensory Skill to feel the inside of the pumpkin. She was able to pull the seeds out and explore the “squishy†and “wet†feeling of the inside of the pumpkin.
World-class Romanian violinist Irina Muresanu will continue the SUNY Oswego Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series with “Homage to the Violin Sonata” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom.
The international award-winning violinist will perform sonatas by the likes of Beethoven, Schubert and Prokofiev with pianist Robert Auler of SUNY Oswego’s music department.
The Fulton Rotarians gave her a warm welcome, especially when she announced the presence of a Chamber of Commerce office in Fulton after the absence of a local Chamber of several years.
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