Tim Green, Syracuse University football legend, former Atlanta Falcons Football player, attorney, and best selling ‘tween and adult book writer, was a recent visitor to Lanigan Elementary School in the Fulton City School District, where he spoke to students about his career, his writing and his life.
By day, they may look like any other student walking across the SUNY Oswego campus. At night, they trade their books for skates, pads and helmets as members of the Oz Roller Girls derby team.
Oswego Middle School was well represented at the All-County Music Festival held earlier this month in Fulton. The students were under the direction of Elisa DeKaney Macedo of Syracuse University.
An after-school club at Fairgrieve Elementary School is offering students in grades three through six an opportunity to take advantage of some extra help in preparation for the upcoming New York State Math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests.
It will be held on May 14 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Rochester General Hospital – Weiner Conference Room – 1425 Portland Ave., Rochester. Amyloidosis is a life threatening illness caused by the production of abnormal proteins circulating in the blood and accumulating in the organs as heart and kidney and liver, leading to organ failure.
Woman asks others to join her April 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Fulton Alliance Church, Route 48 South, for a community forum to get the discussion started on creating a Fulton arts center.
Students Emma Draper, Laurie Edwards, Katherine Hansen, Lindi Himes and Jean Smyth study different subjects and come from various backgrounds, but they constitute a key part of the Oz Roller Girls, whose home debut as a flat-track derby team comes April 23 vs. the Crown City Royal Pains at Oswego’s Crisafulli Rink.
Organized and hosted by the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau, the free event will feature a variety of games and outdoor activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., including basketball, shuffleboard, hiking, arts and crafts, a campfire and much more.
I am pleased to report that the state budget passed on time this year. It finally put the brakes on spending, and did not include any new taxes or revenue streams. In the last two years, taxes and fees increased by $10 billion. This tax and spend mentality was simply not sustainable. I’m pleased the trend did not continue with the 2011-12 budget.
While the public at large thinks of firefighters as the people who run into burning buildings when others are running out, volunteer fire departments and rescue squads are often the ones who respond to calls for help of all kinds in their communities.
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