Fulton Daily News

Despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, which took effect in 1990, some employers remain apprehensive about hiring a person with a disability. Betty Maute, Fulton Public Library director, is not one of them.

At approximately 1:45 p.m. today (Feb. 23), State Police in North Syracuse responded to 8904 Beach Road in the Town of Cicero for a reported person who fell through the ice with his dog. Three Oswego County men helped with the rescue.

The owner of Black Creek Lumber Company on County Route 57 in Volney, lost his entire business to fire Monday morning.

“I’ve been thinking about retiring,” Dennis Gantley said. “I didn’t want to see it go like this.”

“It was a ball of fire, I’ll tell you.”

Inside, his story and videos of the explosion and fire.

According to WWNY-TV in Watertown, John Altman, III of Fulton suffered injuries in a crash during a vintage snowmobile race in Gouverneur Saturday.

The crash killed a racer from Ontario and forced the rest of the day’s races to be cancelled.

Read WWNY’s report here.

An eight-month-long investigation by the New York State Police in Fulton resulted in the arrest of three Onondaga County subjects for the thefts of an ATV and two motorcycles from Northern Motorsports in Volney.