The Fulton City Board of Education released and reviewed standardized testing results for grades 3-8 for the 2014-2015 school year at its September 29 meeting. Elizabeth Conners, executive director of instruction and assessment, presented the assessment report’s results to the board and the meeting’s audience. Overall, Conners emphasized the opportunity for growth and areas for improvement.
Republican mayoral candidate Billy Barlow spoke with a group of local business owners regarding areas of concern for the city and answering any questions the group may have.
Barlow was the third and final participant in the ‘Meet the Candidates’ event put on by the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce, following write-in candidate, Tom Gillen and Democratic candidate, Amy Tresidder.
September is a bittersweet month for many people involved in the Heidi Allen kidnapping case.
For the Allen family, each September brings another birthday for Heidi, the 1994 kidnapping victim that has been missing since her disappearance from her then job at a convenience store. September also brings similar bittersweet feelings for the family of the only man who has answered to charges on the kidnapping case, Gary Thibodeau.
Following a September 10 hearing between the NYSDOH Board of Professional Medical Conduct and Respondent, Dilip Kumar Roy, M.D., the Department of Health has ordered his license as a physician in the state of New York be surrendered effective October, 1 2015. The decision comes after an investigtion into Dr. Roy’s practice following a May 2015 arrest for one count of Rape in the 3rd degree, a felony.
CiTi, the Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation held an open house recently for families of students and members of the community to see the results of the buildings remodel and to boast the many services they offer. Located at the Mexico campus, CiTi (formerly known as Oswego BOCES) serves over 1,000 students every day from nine school districts in the county.
Bill Cahill and the entire sixth grade of Volney Elementary took to the field at their school to launch the rockets the students had so excitedly engineered over the past two weeks. The sixth grade class along with their family stood outside as two students at a time approached the table to prepare their rockets for launch. Then, they all joined together in a countdown from five to launch their rockets into the sky and try to catch them on the way back down.
Recently, the local Fulton/Oswego BIB chapter recognized the National Blessings in a Backpack Day by filling enough bags of food to feed the amount of selected children at one elementary school. Blessings in a Backpack, or BIB, is a national program that feeds 76,000 children in more than 800 schools including elementary schools in both Fulton and Oswego.
UPDATE (9/21/2015) – Power has been restored to the majority of National Grid customers affected by the equipment failure in Fulton last night (September 20), according to National Grid. After service was restored to many of the affected residences at approximately 3:30 this morning, nearly 80 customers are still left without power, says Virginia Limmiatis of National Grid.
UPDATED A one-vehicle accident occurring at 11:13 a.m. on Sunday left a portion of West Third Street closed and a number of Fulton residents without power. 29-year-old Nathen Macdonald struck his vehicle into a telephone pole on the 700 block of West Third Street in Fulton at approximately 10 minutes after 11 this morning, according to the Fulton City Police Department.
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