Community

SUNY Oswego faculty and students have taken on a project to slow or stop the advance of cattails threatening to choke the sensitive Oswego County habitat of two rare species, the bog buckmoth and bog turtle.

Jacob Belcher and Paige Havener will be in Voorhees Park, across from the Fulton Education Center, on August 12 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. as well as August 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to collect your donations.

Visitors to the Oswego County Fair will be able to learn about opportunities in the New York Army National Guard by stopping by the recruiting station which will be set upon the fairgrounds.

Big words, big fun, and a chance at big prizes await participants in Oswego County Opportunities Literacy Volunteers’ Scrabble Fest. On September 22, OCO Literacy Volunteers will hold its 10th Annual Diane Falise Memorial Scrabble Fest.

Partnering with school districts throughout Oswego County, as well as several business and organizations, United Way of Greater Oswego County’s Stuff-A-Bus campaign collects and distributes school supplies to less fortunate students throughout Oswego County.

Summer AmeriCorps members at the Oswego County Health Department and the Oswego Bookmobile Jack Carmody, Kristin Hadley and Tori Zerrahn completed a community involvement project for their term of service assignment.

Community members can take steps to prevent type 2 diabetes together with the PreventT2 lifestyle change program offered by Arise, the Oswego County Health Department and Oswego Health.

The University at Albany congratulates the more than 2,800 students who graduated in May 2016.