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Several Fairgrieve Elementary School students were recently honored because they exceeded classroom expectations throughout the month of September.

Holocaust survivor Doris Schechter, formerly Dorrit Blumenkranz, came back to Oswego to mark the 75th anniversary of the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter open house on Sept. 3, 1944.

The Oswego Middle School has begun recognition of star seventh and eighth grade students who have exemplified monthly character education traits.

Hundreds of Minetto Elementary School students and their families participated in the building’s recent open house.

State Senator Patty Ritchie is encouraging all homeowners whose primary residence suffered damage as a result of this year’s flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River to apply for relief funding as soon as possible.

Sergeant First Class James Bucci from Volney, assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 102nd Military Police Battalion, retired from the New York Army National Guard last month

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oswego County is pleased to announce that the 2019 annual Oswego County Holiday Farmers’ Market will be held on December 7 as part of the “Christmas in Mexico” festivities.

Author and professor Lisa Tessman of Binghamton University will discuss “Setting Ourselves Up for Moral Failure” in this year’s Warren Steinkraus Lecture on Human Ideals, beginning at 4 p.m. Oct. 24, in Marano Campus Center auditorium, Room 132, at SUNY Oswego.

State Senator Patty Ritchie is announcing she has delivered $95,000 in state funding that has helped support fire departments across Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Oswego counties.