A local man accused of robbing drugs at gunpoint from the corner drugstore in the village of Phoenix was caught by police Thursday (Dec. 18) and arraigned in Schroeppel Town Court on five felony and misdemeanor charges.
Cody M. Hall, who turned 22 years-old on Thursday, of county Route 10, Pennellville, was apprehended in the town of Cicero Thursday morning by several police agencies.
After a sometimes contentious but overwhelmingly positive public hearing where taxpayers covered nearly every line of the mayor’s 2015 proposed budget, councilors unanimously passed the $15.7 million spending plan. “The 800 pound gorilla is public safety,” Republican Committee Chairman Mark Aldasch said. “We have the highest taxes and there’s no jobs here. And no job is going to come here with the taxes being the way they are.”
The three young men responsible for the February death of a Granby man were in Oswego County Court Monday (Dec.16) but before sentencing hearings began, the victim’s sister had an opportunity to address the judge and the three men responsible for killing her brother.
As the person responsible for the crime of killing Anthony Miller during the robbery in February, Michael Celi, 17, pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to murder in the second degree, a class A-1 felony and in Oswego County Court Monday morning Judge Donald Todd sentenced him to 20 years to life in state prison, indeterminate, with $400 in fines.
As the mastermind of the plot to rob the Granby man, Glenwood Carr Jr., 17, pleaded guilty on Aug. 10 to murder in the second degree, a class A-1 felony, and on Monday was sentenced to 17 1/2 years minimum and maximum life in state prison, indeterminate, with $375 in court fees.
Financially strapped city of Fulton taxpayers will see a zero percent increase in their current tax rate if the mayor’s $15.7 million proposed budget, published Tuesday (Dec. 9), is accepted by councilors next week. “We were able to balance the budget without a tax increase,” Mayor Ronald Woodward explained in an interview on Wednesday with Oswego County Today, by holding down spending and trimming the city’s workforce.
Village and area police are still looking for a man who reportedly robbed narcotics from Phoenix’s drug store at gunpoint on Tuesday. The armed man was caught on surveillance camera as he walked into The Medicine Place on Route 57 in downtown Phoenix at approximately 4:40 p.m. where he allegedly stole drugs, but no cash.
Across the country young adults today, often called the millennial generation, are more likely to be foreign born and speak a language other than English at home, compared with young adults in 1980, and in Oswego County they are more likely to earn less and live in poverty than they did thirty years ago.
Community members and city officials gathered today to pay their respects and express their sadness for the loss of one of Fulton’s leaders, Hugh MacKenzie. Mayor Ronald Woodward acknowledged that with Mr. MacKenzie’s passing last week Fulton lost “a decent and hard-working community leader.”
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