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The Oswego City School District Board of Education will meet at 2 p.m. on Thursday to vote upon BOCES related resolutions. The board will vote on the $6 million 2013-14 BOCES administrative budget and cast a ballot in regards to election of BOCES board members.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation announced that eight ports, including Oswego, are receiving the prestigious Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award for registering increases in international cargo tonnage shipped through their ports during the 2012 navigation season compared to the previous year.

Be Safe is one of the Fulton City School’s District’s behavioral expectations. Be Respectful, Be Responsible, and Be a Problem Solver round out the other expectations at Fairgrieve Elementary School.

Eagle Beverage is proud to announce the wrap up of its “Paint the Town Black” fundraiser. With the help of more than 40 taverns, restaurants, and convince stores they were able to raise more than $2,300 that will be donated to local fire departments in the area.

Fairgrieve Elementary School recently recognized students for their exemplary demonstration of the district’s monthly virtues. March’s virtue of the month was Perseverance.

Several SkillsUSA students at Oswego County BOCES’ Burton Ramer Technical Career Center were awarded scholarships to attend Lincoln Technical Institute/College of Technology by Andy Trugillo, a representative from the school.

Fairgrieve Elementary School Principal Jean Ciesla is pictured with students honored during the month of March for the character expectation of “Be a Problem Solver.”

Volney Elementary School fourth grade classes were treated to a special guest visitor recently. Linda Russell from the New York Council for the Humanities presented a special speaker in the schools presentation all about colonial life. The students are studying the colonial period as part of the fourth grade social studies curriculum.