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Oswego Daily News

OCJ Inmate’s Death Under Investigation

At about 12:20 a.m. today (August 10), members of the Oswego County Correctional Facility responded to a medical emergency involving an inmate in the facility. The housing unit officer detected a change in the breathing pattern of the sleeping inmate and notified a supervisor.
Despite the life-saving measures taken, the inmate was pronounced dead.

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Billy Barlow
Oswego Daily News

Mayor Barlow Proposes First Tax Cut in 20 Years for City Residents

Mayor Billy Barlow has proposed a 2.1% reduction in city property taxes in his 2019 Operating Budget, the first tax reduction for city residents in 20 years. Mayor Barlow’s budget reduces the general tax rate from $15.67 per thousand dollars of assessed value in 2018 to $15.33 in 2019, saving approximately $26 per year on an $80,000 house.

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Surface water affected by blue-green algae often is so strongly colored that it can develop a paint-like appearance. (Photo NYS Department of Health.)
Fulton Daily News

David C. Webb Memorial Park Bathing Beach in Constantia is Closed

The Oswego County Health Department announced today (August 8) that the David C. Webb Memorial Park Bathing Beach on Oneida Lake is closed to swimming due to the visual presence of a blue-green algal bloom. Several public beaches in Oswego County on Lake Ontario remain open to swimming.

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Historian and Oswego native Tom Ebert brings his expertise back to Fort Ontario State Historic Site for a presentation about the American Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West. The talk begins at 7 p.m. on August 15 in the Enlisted Men’s Barracks inside the old stone fort. Admission is free. For details, call 315-343-4711.
Oswego Daily News

Historian Tom Ebert Presents ‘The Civil War In The West’ At Fort Ontario

Civil War historian and Oswego native Tom Ebert returns to Fort Ontario State Historic Site on East Fourth Street in Oswego to talk about the American Civil War in the West. The program begins at 7 p.m. Aug. 15 in the Enlisted Men’s Barracks inside the old stone fort. It is free and open to the public.

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