The Fulton school district’s $23.6 million construction project is back on track.
After a minor delay caused by the accidental destruction of asbestos-laden floor tiles in the auditorium of the Education Center building, the pace of work has picked up and Jerry Seguin, the district’s point man on the big project, told the Board of Education Tuesday night that things are generally “right on schedule”.
Yet another business is pulling out of the half-empty River Glen Mall.
Fulton Savings Bank will close its 15-year-old branch at the Route 481 shopping center on December 18. No employees will lose their jobs, according to the bank’s CEO, Mike Pollock. The bank’s lease expires not long after the closing.
Oswego County’s discovery of a mosquito carrying an Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus makes the county and the state the first place in the country to discover the potentially deadly illness this year. It’s also one of the earliest annual discoveries for the county on record.
Lucky us.
The concession stand at Bullhead Point is empty again.
Ace BBQ got out of its contract with the city of Fulton “a little early,” said Mayor Ron Woodward. He said the was having more success with its catering business than its retail business.
There’s no word yet on what caused a house fire in Volney Wednesday.
The home at 1508 County Route 57 was destroyed by fire late in the afternoon. The one-family home is owned by Sandra Audas, according to the county’s online property tax database.
No injuries were reported. An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.
Richard Ravitch, the former head of the Metropolitan Transit Agency in NYC, who saved it from severe money troubles.
Here he is, in a photo from the state website. He’s on the left:
Now it’s gone. The sudden departure appears to have some folks wondering where Jreck went. They’ve even taken their question to the arbiter of all things retail, Post-Standard retail columnist Bob Neidt, who didn’t know either.
Here’s your answer: Jreck moved this week in the long-closed Cam’s NY Pizzeria building next to City Hall and Advance Auto Parts. The new owners tell our Fred Reed (who supplied the cell camera photo below) that they’ll be reopening “in a week or so”. Here’s their new home:
Rest easy, Fultonians. You can continue to enjoy “a meal for your money, not a snack”.
Another city of Fulton home is making a comeback.
A home at 151 W. 4th St. S. is the latest to be seized by the city for non-payment of taxes, rehabilitated, and offered for sale by the Fulton Community Development Agency.
“They have a buyer now,” said Mayor Ron Woodward Tuesday night
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