Articles by Janet Rebeor

During a recent Common Council meeting a 6th grader stepped to the podium during the public session to ask the mayor of Fulton about the ongoing efforts to clean up Lake Neatahwanta, and what young people can do to help. Brandon Grow, a 6th grader at Volney Elementary School, is a Boy Scout with Troop #780 in Hannibal, and he is working to earn the highest achievement in Scouts: the rank of Eagle.

The city of Fulton Common Council will receive the mayor’s 2015 budget proposal on Tuesday Dec. 9 after a public hearing on the document.

Councilors and Mayor Ronald Woodward met on Nov. 20 for a budget workshop that was open to the public. The mayor and Councilor Tom Kenyon said the following day the session was extremely productive, leaving only a narrow budget gap to close between expenses and revenue.

“We do it every year and just about every city does,” Mayor Ronald Woodward said. “And that does not indicate an intent to pass a tax levy in excess of the limit. The limit that the state of New York put on the municipalities was pretty much purely political mumbo jumbo.”

More than 200 veterans, and civilian men, women and children turned out in force Tuesday morning at Fulton’s Veterans Memorial Park to honor and thank the people who fought for this country.

The Fulton Planning Board received a dose of good news for the community Monday when representatives from Universal Metal Works rolled out a preliminary plan to expand its operations in the cash-strapped city.