Articles by Steve Yablonski

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Representative John Katko today (August 31) visited the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum. The pair has introduced legislation that would authorize the National Park Service to conduct a study on whether the museum should become a part of the National Park system. This designation would provide significant resources to Central New York, including increased federal funding for historic preservation and economic development programs, and would increase tourism to the area.

You can accomplish great thing when you work together. That was the message Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow shared Tuesday (August 29). The Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce facilitated a “Meet the Mayor Roundtable” at the new Home2 Suites by Hilton in Oswego. More than two dozen city officials, business owners, representatives from various community service organizations and others attended. There’s a huge opportunity for inter-municipal cooperation between Oswego and Fulton as well as the county, the mayor said.