For its traditional fourth Friday in June Strawberry Festival celebration, Phoenix residents flocked to the village’s downtown and Henley Park to enjoy the festivities and the fireworks finale.
Approximately 50 kayaks and canoes were launched from Indian Point Park boat launch in Fulton on Saturday at 7 a.m., kicking off the second annual Oswego Paddlefest Rock the Locks. They joined hundreds more.
The flotilla for the second annual running of Oswego Paddlefest’s Rock the Locks group kayak and canoe adventure took to the Oswego River in Fulton this morning atop calm water and under a nearly cloudless blue sky.
G. Ray Bodley senior Dylan Blair would have graduated on June 28. He died in a car crash earlier this week. The district has a crisis support team in place at the high school to provide support for students, family members and staff. A vigil will be held today (June 19) at the high school athletic complex at 7 p.m.
After a few tweaks to the ice cream machines this week Sweet Inspirations – Fulton’s drive-in ice cream and food joint, which hosts the original Saturday cruise night – will be open again for business. “They’re coming on Monday to get the ice cream machines up and running,” new owner Kevin Niver told Oswego County Today on Sunday (June 15.) “We hope to have a soft opening this weekend, serving ice cream for the first few weeks until we get everyone up and trained.”
In what could be the first solid lead since the 1996 disappearance of a local woman, Oswego City Police identified the vehicle pulled from the Oswego River a few hundred yards south of Lock 3 in Fulton as an early 1990’s model, red, four-door Toyota Corolla LE.
Janice Growe, one of Carol Larsen Wood’s older sisters, told Oswego County Today, “The Oswego police came back here this evening to say that they’re 99 percent sure it’s my sister’s car, and there are human remains in it.”
The NYS Financial Restructuring Board for Local Governments’ six-month time frame is up and the city of Fulton is waiting for the final report on what, if any, assistance is available for the financially strapped community. While Mayor Ron Woodward was unable to share all of the details in the submitted draft report, he discussed with Oswego County Today one of the measures he hopes the city can use, if the need arises.
Oswego Paddlefest’s Rock the Locks event will rock a little longer this year as organizers invited the city of Fulton to join its event, adding a new 10-mile course designation to the Oswego River route.
As concerned community members question the status of demolition at the former Nestle site and ALDI Inc.’s plan to potentially bring a food store to Fulton, city leaders shared some disconcerting news on Tuesday (June 3). “The property owner is AWOL,” Mayor Ron Woodward said during Tuesday’s council meeting. “He won’t answer any calls. … ALDI’s still says they’re going through with it.”
William LeVea, the Fulton man who recklessly caused the death of Christopher Spack when he repeatedly rammed his vehicle into the man’s pick-up truck, has been denied a request for an early release from prison. Donna Williams, who was Spack’s girlfriend, and spearheaded a Moveon.org petition to help keep LeVea in prison, said she was overwhelmed when she heard today’s news.
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