Lanigan Elementary School fourth grade student Noah Horning watched as seven fire departments worked to save his neighbor’s home earlier this year. The family escaped the fire safely, but lost everything. Noah knew there was something he could do to help the family and he knew just who could help him – the students and staff at his school.
Parents and family members along with BOCES and component school district officials gathered for the distinguished ceremony to celebrate the students’ accomplishments and educational achievements as they prepare for careers in police science, security, surveillance, corrections, emergency medical response, and firefighting.
Motorcyclists and runners came together on June 8 to raise more than $11,000 in net proceeds at ARISE’s annual Ride for Ramps event at Fort Ontario. The money raised through the event will mean that ARISE will be able to build ramps for at least 10 families in the community.
A one-day count of homeless individuals in Oswego County, the Point in Time survey, mandated by the federal department of Housing and Urban Development, is a concise effort area human service agencies that serves to raise the awareness of homelessness and helps to compile an approximate number of those who are homeless, or are housing vulnerable, in Oswego County.
The G. Ray Bodley Class of 1968 will hold its 45th reunion, one-day event on August 10 from 1-5 p.m. at Fulton Elks on Pierce Drive, Fulton. There will be a chicken barbecue and all the fixin’s! $15 per person. Reservations needed by July 1.
The Sandy Creek Varsity Girls’ Softball team may have lost their bid to be State Champions, but that did not dim their accomplishments in the eyes of their school, their coaches, their families and their community. In a district Board of Education recognition ceremony, they were honored for their accomplishments including the Section III Championship title.
The Adirondack Summer Playhouse puts a unique twist on the musical “Cabaret” in three performances this summer on Gore Mountain. The production, which runs July 11-13, takes place in a modern “Spiegeltent,” an Austrian mirrored circus tent, offering classic German beer and goodies such as knödel, bratwurst, sauerkraut, sausages and pretzels.
Gary Mix has been appointed as the Oswego City School District Interim Superintendent of Schools. On Tuesday night, the Oswego City School District Board of Education unanimously approved the appointment. Mix will commence his duties in the Oswego City School District on Tuesday, July 2. The board will pay Mix $2,400 per week during the months of July and August and $3,000 per week during the months of September through December.
On July 1, the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Oswego Town Historian George R. DeMass will officiate at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Oswego County 147th monument in Gettysburg. The 147th New York volunteers, Oswego County’s own, was heavily engaged in the three-day battle.
The sights, sounds, and smells of camp and garrison life during the French and Indian War will greet visitors to Fort Ontario State Historic Site in Oswego the weekend of June 29 and 30. Encampments of British, French and Native American troops and warriors who fought each other at Oswego during the 1750s will be displayed from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 29 and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 30.
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