Fulton Daily News
RaiderNet Daily: Meet The Exchange Student
A Couple Of Leftover Questions From Cayuga Community College’s Possible Move
Fulton Library Cuts Hours, Staff As Budget Tightens
An official of the Fulton Public Library came to last week’s public hearing of the Fulton Common Council to warn that without an increase in its budget, the library would have to cut hours and lay off a worker.
Aldermen approved the budget without changes, leaving its contribution to the library at the same level as in the last budget. They did not mention the library’s request nor respond to the official, beyond thanking her for her comment.
Thursday, the library’s board of trustees voted to cut its hours and lay off one member of the staff.
P&C Purchase Would Make College Permanent in Fulton and ‘Masters of Our Own Destiny’
For more than 15 years, Cayuga Community College has been working in leftover, rented spaces. Now, it wants a home of its own.
The $11.2 million plan to buy the closed P&C Foods store at River Glen Square is intended, according to college President Daniel Larson, to create a space that “looks and feels and sounds and smells like a college campus.”
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RaiderNet Daily: Student-Led Conferences
Students will no longer be the silent ones at parent-teacher conferences. Later this year, they’ll be running the conference. We’ve got a full report on that today in RaiderNet Daily. Lots of sports news as well, and, as you see in the photo above, students are out helping others for the holidays.
Fulton Mayor Perturbed About Losing Tax Revenue
Cayuga Community College Seeks To Buy P&C, Move Growing Fulton Branch To Bigger Home
Schools & Unions Sue Gov. Over His Plan To Withhold Some Aid
Groups such as the union New York State United Teachers and the New York State School Board Association filed suit this week to try to block the government from withholdings funds scheduled to be sent to every school district in the state. See a full list of aid holdbacks by school district, city and county.
Fulton School District Plans Process For Building Its Next Budget
A committee will create drafts of the budget, which Superintendent Bill Lynch will bring before the Board of Education for its review and comments. All school budgets in the state go before voters on May 18, 2010.


