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The Oswego County Health Department offers a variety of services to all residents of Oswego County, including preventive health services, certified home health care, long-term home health care, certified hospice, and a maternal and child health program.

Three Oswego High School students were accepted into Junior High Area All State Orchestra and Band. Connor Sheene, Jeremy Braiman and Mike Allen will perform at Cortland Junior/Senior High School this weekend.

Looking to duplicate the success of last year’s Monster Match initiative, Fairley Elementary School teacher Barb Mosny hopped on board again this year with new students and equally positive results. The program, a collaboration with Oswego County BOCES’ Distance Learning Network, pairs local classes with one outside of the county, and each class creates a monster using materials from a list provided.

The first meeting of the month, which begins at 5 p.m., involves committee meetings as the curriculum, finance and personnel agendas will be prepared for the November 19 meeting.

Dave and Kelly Reader traveled to Utica on October 19, 2013 and boarded the train to Old Forge. The foliage was past peak but it was still a lovely trip. The scenery was beautiful not to mention  they seen deer walking down the village streets in Old Forge.

The CCLS seeks to establish a set of academic standards that are consistent from school to school, district to district and state to state. The Pulaski Academy and Central School District is “adopting and adjusting” the NYS modules and domains at the elementary level and “adapting” them to the curriculum at the middle and high school levels.

Halloween music rang throughout the Kenney Middle School cafetorium on Wednesday night as ghosts, goblins, superheroes, animals and creatures of the night delivered a ‘spooktacular’ performance.

As part of Altmar-Parish-Williamstown school district’s initiative to eliminate bullying and promote respect for one another, guest speaker Kirk Smalley was on hand for two separate assemblies Oct. 16 to share his son’s story. Smalley’s son, Ty, took his own life May 13, 2010, after being suspended from school for retaliating against a fellow student who had been bullying him for more than two years.