Kevin Gardner, chair of the legislature, left, recognizes Shawn Doyle for the work he did all year on the county's 200th birthday.
Oswego Daily News

Oswego County Wraps Up An Historical Year

As Oswego County’s bicentennial year winds to a close, Legislator Shawn Doyle recapped some of the events of the past 12 months. It was 200 years ago, this spring that Oswego County was formed. At the start of 2016, Kevin Gardner, chair of the legislature, set up a committee regarding the county’s bicentennial year observance. “For the longest time, it wasn’t really a big priority,” Doyle, committee chair, said. “We were facing some tough choices last January. Our nuclear plants were in jeopardy, one ready to close. This was the last thing on our minds, how we’d get through a bicentennial.”

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