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Oswego Actor/Singer Chosen Again to Perform at the World Class Elvis Ultimate Festival 2019

May 13, 2019 Submitted article

Oswego resident Michael Paul Callahan has been invited again to perform in the #1 in the world Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Festival in Lake George, May 29 – June 2.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Don’t Let Attacks Scare You Away From Sri Lamka

May 10, 2019 Contributor

The terrorist attack that happened recently in Sri Lanka is horrific. But, if we are not familiar with a place or the people who experienced the horror, it quickly slips from our mind. Sri Lanka is a great destination and the people were very welcoming.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Explore Some Of Portland’s Notorious Past

May 3, 2019 Contributor

I spent Easter in Portland, Oregon, with my son, Jim. One of the things I wanted to do was to check out the Shanghai Tunnels so Jim booked the “Underground Walking Tour.” I had read that, in the 1800s, sailors were not eager so sign up to work on a ship headed to far-flung ports so a contractor would get sailors drunk and put them on a ship headed East.

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Players Present Final Weekend of ‘What the Rabbi Saw’

May 2, 2019 Contributor

The cast and crew are ready to show their stuff once again as they create a little magic on the stage of the Frances Marion Brown Theater May 3, 4 and 5.

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What A Fun Night At The Theater

April 29, 2019 Contributor

Now I am not the most objective person in the room when it comes to the Oswego Players, Inc. This is especially so since becoming its president last year.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Baja, A Home Away From Home

April 26, 2019 Contributor

In the early ’90s, shortly have my son, John, moved to Las Vegas we made a road trip to San Felipe, Mexico, never imagining the decades later he and his wife would buy a beach house there. It was a can’t-pass-up deal mainly because housing prices plummeted when the housing market went south so there were great deals to be had.

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Beth Ann DeRousie Shines In ‘What the Rabbi Saw’

April 24, 2019 Contributor

When Beth Ann DeRousie, was cast in the role of the Wedding Singer in “What the Rabbi Saw,” the Oswego Players’ opening show, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. She soon found out that Tom Briggs, director, was going to have her double as a floor lamp.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Come On, Get Healthy – In The Forest

April 19, 2019 Contributor

After months of cabin fever people are anxious to get outdoors but many people do not realize the benefits of spending time in nature. The idea that spending time in the natural world with no head phones and no cell phones is not new. The Japanese healing way of Shinrin-yoku Forest Therapy is the medicine of simply being in the forest.

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‘What the Rabbi Saw’ Well Into Rehearsals

April 15, 2019 Contributor

So what’s involved in producing a play?” you ask. Well that deserves a multi-layered answer.First and most importantly, you need a great script. And boy do we have a doozie this time around.

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Tragedy, Comedy Arise In ‘Fun Home’ As Author Explores Tangle Of Memories

April 15, 2019 Contributor

SUNY Oswego’s spring musical, “Fun Home,” is a memory play that director and theatre faculty member Jonel Langenfeld likens to a snow globe — one that allows the main character to observe from outside the good, the bad and the ugly of her fraught but loving relationship with her late father.

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