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County Health Department Will Hold Best-Tasting Drinking Water Contest Thursday at Oswego Farmers’ Market

The Oswego County Health Department will hold its 23rd annual best tasting drinking water contest Thursday at the Oswego Farmers’ Market on West First Street. Visitors will vote for their favorite samples of drinking water from municipal systems in Oswego County.

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GENIUS environmental competition June 17-20 to global finalists

Syracuse Academy of Science juniors Bilgenur Sirin, right, and Kayla Vidal work recently on their experiment, "The Effect of Fireworks on Water Quality of Lake Ontario," in preparation for competition in the SUNY Oswego GENIUS Olympiad finals June 17-20. The two students will be among the hundreds of young scientists, artists, writers and designers, along with their mentors, arriving in Oswego for the global environmental competition.The SUNY Oswego GENIUS Olympiad finals open Monday, June 17, welcoming more than 400 competitors and their mentors from around the world, including Kayla Vidal and Bilgenur Sirin of the Syracuse Academy of Science. “We are very excited for the Oswego competition,” said the charter school juniors, who studied the effects on Lake Ontario water quality of fireworks shows at events such as Harborfest.

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Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Litter Box Behavior Changes

We had an interesting conversation yesterday with another animal lover who told us about her middle aged cat, Annabelle, who “suddenly last summer” stopped using her litter box. The box was and always had been located in their finished basement in the exact same location and there had been no sudden changes in the household.

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