Oswego Daily News

On Thursday investigators with the Oswego County Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Services Unit, executed a narcotics related search warrant at 196 Gardenier Road in the town of Oswego. As a result, approximately 14.5 grams of crack cocaine and 9 Suboxone strips were seized, police said.

The Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the driver killed in a one-car motor vehicle crash that occurred on August 19 in Amboy. The driver of the vehicle, 21-year-old Louis Watkins of Camden was killed when his 2002 Volkswagen left the roadway, rolled over and struck several trees.

As the opioid epidemic continues to hurt communities across New York State, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced that following her push, the Fiscal Year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill includes critical funding that would help communities combat the opioid crisis. This legislation, which could pass the Senate as soon as this week, includes $3.7 billion in federal funding for treatment and prevention programs

At 6:29 a.m. today members off the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to County Route 6, south of Clifford Road in the town of olney for a two-car motor vehicle accident. Preliminary investigation revealed that the southbound Hyundai Elantra, operated by 19-year-old Jericho Bond, of Mexico, collided with a northbound Volkswagen Jetta, operated by Bruce Mott, 36, of Locke, NY. Bond was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said.

As a young boy, Billy Barlow would view the vista from Breitbeck Park overlooking Lake Ontario and say, “What if …?” Tuesday evening, Mayor Billy Barlow gazed out over the same panorama and said, “That’s more like it!” The mayor hosted a ribbon cutting event officially opening the newly renovated Oswego Harbor Trail along the shoreline of Lake Ontario.

At Monday night’s Physical Services Committee meeting, Jamie Leszczynski, of SAVE CNY, requested to display positive messages and posters throughout Oswego on September 1. SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education), works to prevent suicide through public awareness and education, reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and serves as a resource to those touched by suicide.