Articles by Steve Yablonski

A witness called 911 after seeing two or three juveniles set fire to a pile of mulch in a vacant lot of the former Fitzgibbon’s Boiler Works site Sunday afternoon. In order to fully extinguish the fire, the mulch pile had to be spread out with a bobcat, then doused with water.

Members of the Oswego High School junior class sat through a gruesome presentation Friday to help stop them from making what could be a fatal mistake on prom night, graduation day and beyond. A mock drunk driving accident was staged in the school parking lot. Several teens were “injured.” One young woman, partially ejected from her vehicle, her severed arm was on the ground a few feet away from the wrecked vehicles, was dead – the innocent victim of a drunk driver. The goal of the program is to prevent teens from drinking and driving.

The County of Oswego Council on Alcoholism and Addictions Inc. has received funding from the New York Council on Problem Gambling to carry-out the YOU(th) Decide project in Oswego County. COCOAA has been a part of this project for two years. 2015 marks the fourth year that the NY Council on Problem Gambling has given out mini-grants to local providers in an effort to prevent underage and problem gambling.