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The city of Oswego Fire Department has announced the retirement of Deputy Chief Peter Donovan effective Jan. 4. He spent his entire career on the department’s “A” shift beginning as a Firefighter/EMT, then serving as the Captain of the shift, then becoming the Shift Commander on  April 5, 2001, taking over the shift from longtime friend and supervisor retiring Deputy Chief Richard Wart.

It will be staged Feb. 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ralph Faust Theater
of the Performing Arts. Tickets can be reserved by calling 342-2432.

The H. Lee White Marine Museum and the Oswego Railroad Museum are offering “Beginning Model Building Workshops.” This instructional program is offered in a series of Sunday workshops beginning Jan. 15 from 2-3:30 p.m.

For the third consecutive year, the Oswego High School Buccaneer bowling team headed to the Festival of Lights Tournament in Buffalo to compete at the Thruway Lanes. This time – they returned with the crown!

OMS seventh south students received a unique opportunity as they were involved in a day long DNA Fingerprinting Lab with a Cornell University professor. Teacher Catherine Celeste said, “This was a wonderful opportunity for students to use equipment to extract real DNA, cut it up and run it through an electric current to determine results.”

The award-winning Oswego High School Buccaneer Bulletin newspaper continued its list of achievements as it earned “All New York Gold Overall Newspaper” at the annual 2011 Empire State School Press Association Awards ceremony.