Fulton Daily News

The maintenance man charged with stealing prescription medicine from apartments he was supposed to be maintaining says pain from a recent accident was behind his thefts.

Shane M. Merritt, 29, was charged by Fulton Police with two felony counts of burglary as well as petit larceny, criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal trespass.

Huhtamaki will use the funds to help offset the cost of new machinery, without which the Fulton business would not grow and would continue to lose business to competitors, all of whom are located outside of New York State. The project will retain 631 jobs.

Police say he lives and works as a maintenance man at Holly Garden Apartments He allegedly used his master keys to enter various tenants’ apartments while they were away.

“Where you have great challenges, you have great opportunity,” says Donna Fountain, who will soon become Hannibal’s Superintendent of Schools.

The challenges couldn’t be bigger in Hannibal, one of the poorest districts in the state.

That’s fine with her.  Fountain says she just wants to get to Hannibal and get going.

Community members are invited to attend an open house and tour the now completed state-of-the-art Fulton Medical Center from 4 to 7 p.m. April 19. The FMC is located at 510 S. Fourth St. The open house marks the completion of Oswego Health’s major transformation of the former A.L. Lee Memorial Hospital into the Fulton Medical Center.