Robyn Yorker’s students at the Stepping Stones summer program recently explored the Earth’s seven continents without having to leave their classroom. The Blue Team virtually traveled to all corners of the world as they researched fun facts, famous places and tasty foods to sample as part of their multi-cultural lesson.
Dozens of elementary, junior high and high school students recently came together to celebration just that during the annual summer carnival, held at Granby Elementary.
Do you worry about your paper towels maybe leaping off the counter and attacking you? We thought so. If you have papertowelaphobia, then Trouble, as you can see, is your guy. He will destroy those marauding beasts for you and leave them utterly vanquished in your kitchen. Or, if not, he is still your guy because he is such a great cat!
Oswego County Opportunities Deputy Executive Director Patrick Waite has announced that Brian Coleman has been named director of OCO Health and Nutrition Services. A native of Phoenix, Coleman, who holds a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice from Keuka College, joined OCO in 2012 as the agency’s Homeless Services Program Manager.
The Foster-Adoptive Parent Recruitment Team of the Oswego County Department of Social Services will offer its next 10-week foster parent training class beginning Sept. 13. Classes will be held Wednesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. at the DSS office, 100 Spring St., Mexico.
The Oswego County Health Department announced today (August 18) that the Taft Bay Park Beach on Oneida Lake in the town of Constantia has been re-opened to swimming.
Summer’s end and early autumn mark the last phase of parental activity for breeding owls. Courtship, egg laying, incubation, brooding, hunting and feeding of the nestlings have occupied the adults from late winter until now.
Patrick Dewine, executive director of United Way of Greater Oswego County announced that the Oswego Fire Fighters Association Local 126 is currently collecting school supplies at its main headquarters, 35 E. Cayuga St. in Oswego through today, Aug. 18, in support of the United Way Stuff-A-Bus campaign. The Stuff-A-Bus community collection day is taking place today, August 18, as the United Way looks to fill school buses with school supplies.
Life is seldom good for the residents of Skid Row. Faced with poverty and tough times, the residents are surprised and pleased to learn that their friend Seymour Krelbourn has achieved success with the discovery of a new plant. The story of Seymour and his strange plant will be presented in the Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors at G. Ray Bodley High School.
Award-winning Chinese watercolorist Zhinan Jiang, now a visiting professor of art at SUNY Oswego, did not know after a car crash in 1999 whether he would live or, if he did, whether he would walk, talk or paint ever again. Thanks to life-saving care and rehabilitation, for which he is forever grateful, Jiang returned to all that and to enjoy time with a daughter born during his recovery.
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