UPDATED: with a message from Bishop Robert J. Cunningham
Former Oswego City School District Superintendent Bill Crist will take over as superintendent of the Syracuse Diocesan schools early next spring. Crist retired from his post in Oswego at the end of the last shcool year. He will begin his duties for the Syracuse Diocese in March.
The Oswego Public Library is bringing to a close its third and final gallery show of Ella Wheeler’s glass plate negatives. Ella took photographs around town and as far away as Connecticut and Michigan from 1900 to 1909. The gallery is located in the lowest level of the library along with the Library Learning Center, Community Room and restrooms.
Louella LeClair, an Oswego County Legislator, will be honored next week by the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) for graduating from the NYSAC Dennis A. Pelletier County Government Institute.The ceremony will be held on September 26 at the 2013 NYSAC Fall Seminar in Saratoga.
At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council approved some public hearings, but not all. A proposed amendment regarding the future of billboard signs in the Port City was tabled to allow councilors to glean more information.
Nancy Weber, the first woman president of the Farm Bureau, was the guest speaker for the Oswego Association of Business and Professional Women during the September 17 meeting. As a long-time dairy farmer in Mexico and representative on the CNY Regional Economic Development Committee, Weber spoke to the group about women in agriculture.
Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and northern Vermont celebrated recently with the local community the official grand-re-openings under the Tops banner of three former Big M stores located in Adams, Sandy Creek and Mexico.
A bit of local history will be available at the Oswego Health Auxiliary’s annual bazaar to be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. October 9 and 10 in the lobby of Oswego Hospital. During the bazaar, tickets to win the American Girl Doll, Caroline Abbott, will be available.
At its meeting this week, the Physical Services Committee councilors considered restricting certain parking within the Third Ward. Tony Leotta, city engineer, said he received a request from Councilor Mike Todd to place a moratorium on applications for front yard parking on private properties in the Third Ward until December 31, 2014.
Blake Brokhoff was born in Oswego Hospital on Sept. 16, 2013.
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