Matt Irland, overhead line instructor for National Grid at its Liverpool facility, talks with SUNY Oswego students at the company’s “SUNY Career Connections Day” about the intensive, 5.5-year training program -- in classrooms, in simulation labs such as this one and in the field – that new technicians go through before they can become hot stick lineworkers on high-voltage towers.
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Oswego Students Explore Array Of Careers In National Grid’s 1st SUNY Fair

Students from SUNY Oswego and SUNY Cortland toured the company’s Learning Center in Liverpool, heard informational talks and took advantage of one-on-one networking with National Grid employees. “It’s an eye-opener of a business,” said Kariya Buckshot, an Oswego junior human development major. “It can be a dangerous business.”

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Pathfinder Bank Lights Up the Sky Again for Harborfest 2019

Peter Myles, executive director of Oswego Harbor Festivals, recently met with Jim Dowd, PathFinder Bank’s EVP COO and CFO, to review the 2018 event, discuss their co-sponsorship of Saturday night’s spectacular fireworks show, and their commitment to the volunteer program which they have sponsored for several years.

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