Fulton Daily News

For Cayuga Community College graduate and Commencement speaker Brian Knapp ’13, this day almost never came. On August 4, 2008, nine days before his 21st birthday, he was driving his Marine commander through the country side of Afghanistan when they vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device. He sustained a traumatic brain injury and struggled to remember simple words like “gate.”

Today (May 17), marked Volney Elementary’s annual Earth Day Celebration.  Earth Day is an all-day event and has been a Volney staple for more than 15 years. “The kids are excited about this day every year,” said Principal Jeff Hendrickson. “It’s tradition. It’s become one of those things that’s expected.”

The board will discuss this matter during a special session at 6 p.m. May 17 in the college’s Business Industry Center in the James T. Walsh Regional Economic Center on the Auburn Campus, 199 Franklin St. Both the board and college president Daniel P. Larson are expected to make a statement at that meeting.

The Fulton Art Association will present its 40th Annual Art Show and Competition this weekend, May 18 and 19. The show opens Saturday at 10 a.m. and goes until 8 p.m., and again Sunday 2-4 p.m. An artists’ reception will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, providing a venue with several artists available for comments on techniques.

The Fulton Service Clubs (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary Sunrise) and the Fulton Veterans Council have completed the planning for the 32nd Annual Memorial Day Salute to be held on May 24 and 25. The parade committee has been working for several months putting together the area’s largest parade. The parade date is May 25 and it will start at 10 a.m.

UPDATE:  The victim has been identified as 27-year-old Nicholas Kellogg of Kellogg Road in Hannibal.

His pickup truck was westbound on County Route 3, west of Hanley Road, when it went off the road, into a ditch and struck a utility pole support wire, an earthen embankment and several small trees while overturning, deputies said.

A crash reportedly occurred on State Route 3 in front of CT Farm and Tractor in Fulton at approximately 2:30 p.m.today, according to contributing photographer Rick Grosvent. One victim had to be cut out of the overturned vehicle. She was transported to Upstate by Menter ambulance with what appears to be non-life threatening injuries.