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Students from Fairgrieve and Lanigan elementary schools recently competed in a literary competition to determine who would represent the Fulton City School District in the countywide Battle of the Books.

The Oswego YMCA will hold a “Dancing in the Dark” Cosmic Zumba event on Friday from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. to raise funds for YMCA group exercise programs. The event is open to the public and there is a suggested donation for participation. Attendees are encouraged to wear white shirts to enhance the black light effect, and glow bracelets and necklaces will be provided.

“Children do what they see adults doing.” said Wilson. “If a parent smokes, the odds of a child becoming a smoker dramatically increase, which is a tragedy. Smoking is a poisonous activity; it is the leading cause of preventable death in New York.” The poisonous nature of cigarettes goes far beyond being figurative. It is quite literal:

Oswego County Opportunities invites community members to cowboy-up and to help those in need. On April 18, OCO will hold its annual bowling tournament fund raiser at Lakeview Lanes in Fulton.

OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego has launched a diversity awareness initiative this spring titled “Shine the Light on Oz,” the latest in a series of projects nurtured over the past year by the college’s Diversity and […]

Students in Jeanne Revette’s first grade class at Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Elementary School put their engineering design standards to the test. They created some incredibly imaginative traps to capture a leprechaun on St. Patrick’s Day this year.

The History Center of Volney is hosting a “Tour of Historic Homes, Structures and Sites of Interest in the Township.“ On April 25 a trolley provided by the Great Lakes Trolley Company will leave the town hall on County Route 6, Volney Center at 10 a.m.

Local non-profit leaders in Oswego, Christina Wilson, executive director of Integrated Community Planning and Brandy Koproski, board president of the Oswego YMCA, are speaking out and standing up to the tobacco industry in an effort to end tobacco use once and for all.

Students gathered in the school’s auditorium and were treated to a performance called “The Paper Bag Princess,” which depicts a kind-hearted princess searching for her one true love.