Fulton Daily News

Project officials at Northeast Biofuels are in the final stages of preparation to start production at Oswego County’s new ethanol plant. The first stages of that production could come within a week.

The current alderman and the city’s former mayor have each thrown their hat in the ring for this fall’s special election for Fulton’s Fourth Ward. Dana Smith, a Republican, and Daryl Hayden, a Democrat, have each received their party’s endorsement for the race.

The city of Fulton sat down with the Fulton Firefighters Association for the first time to discuss a new labor agreement Monday. Negotiations with the union have been delayed because of special circumstances required to fill a vacancy in the department.

Teachers and other professional staff in the Hannibal Central School District will begin the 2008-09 school year under a new labor agreement. The Board of Education voted this month to accept a new four-year contract with the Hannibal Faculty Association.

The rising costs of blacktop, fuel and equipment have put a dent in the amount of paving projects that the city of Fulton will take on this year. Officials are keeping an eye on those costs to see if summer pricing will take an additional bite from an already shortened list.

Prompted by an emergency order that suspended the operating certificate at the Rosewood Home for Adults in Fulton, the New York State Department of Health has stepped in to oversee the care and safe transfer of 16 residents to other facilities.

Court action against both the former Fulton librarian and the former Nissan North employee who were separately accused of stealing thousands from their former employers were adjourned this week in Fulton City Court.