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As Perry Visits FitzPatrick to ‘Make Nuclear Energy Cool Again,’ Environmentalists Demand Cuomo Reverse Policy of Forcing NY Ratepayers to Subsidize Failing Nuclear Plants

August 1, 2018 Submitted article

While the Trump administration’s Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Scriba today (Aug. 1) after saying it’s time to “make nuclear energy cool again,” New York environmental and consumer groups are calling on New York Governor Cuomo to reverse the decision, made exactly two years ago today, to force New York ratepayers, even those who opt into 100% renewables, to subsidize nuke plants such as FitzPatrick.

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University Police Makes Motor Vehicle Felony Arrest

August 1, 2018 Contributor

According to a press release today (August 1), Mary Elizabeth Castillo, 47, of Merced, California, was charged with driving while intoxicated with a previous DWI conviction and with aggravated DWI for suspected driving while intoxicated and having passengers in the car younger than the age of 16, both Class E felonies.

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John Gartner of East Amherst recently donated to SUNY Oswego this oil-on-canvas painting -- name and date unknown -- by Oswego native James Gale Tyler, the late marine artist in whose memory Tyler Hall and the Tyler Art Gallery were named.

College Accepts Gift Of James Gale Tyler Painting, 3rd In Its Collection

August 1, 2018 Contributor

An East Amherst man moving to Florida full time has donated to SUNY Oswego the college’s third painting by famed marine painter James Gale Tyler, namesake of Tyler Hall and the Tyler Art Gallery on the main campus. The other paintings by Tyler, who was born in Oswego in 1855, came to the college in 1967, thanks to a gift from Delta Kappa Kappa Fraternity, and in 1992 from the estate of Joseph Riley.

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Pedestrian Seriously Injured In Early-Morning MVA

August 1, 2018 Site Administrator

Oswego County Sheriff’s depities were dispatched to a car/pedestrian motor vehicle accident on Norman Avenue, south of Spring Street in the village of Mexico at 2:09 a.m. today (August 1). The accident reportedly involved serious injury. .The incident remains under investigation.

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Police ID Victim Found In River

July 31, 2018 Site Administrator

UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 33-year-old, Michael S. Cole, of Lacona NY. Cole was transported to the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office. The current cause of death is unknown pending medical examinations.

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Oswego Police Investigate Probable Drowning Incident

July 28, 2018 Site Administrator

At about 9 this morning (Saturday, July 28), Oswego Police were dispatched to a call of a male who could be heard yelling in the area of East Second Street near Hubbard Street. Oswego Police arrived on-scene and tracked the subject to the bank of the Oswego River near Lock 7. The subject was located in the river.

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Bubis Pleads Guilty To Assault, Unlawful Imprisonment

July 28, 2018 Site Administrator

On Friday (July 27), Gary Bubis Jr. pleaded guilty to Assault 2nd and Unlawful Imprisonment 1st in Oswego County Supreme Court before the Hon. James McCarthy. Those were the two most serious counts in the Indictment against Bubis stemming from abuse allegations that occurred in the town of Albion in 2017.

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Wearing the latest fashion in balloon head gear, some marchers wave to the OCT photographer Friday morning

Hundreds March In Annual Children’s Parade

July 27, 2018 Steve Yablonski

Hundred of youngsters, their friends and families, marched from Breitbeck Park to the Novelis Family Park (West Park) on Friday in idyllic weather. The annual Children’s Parade is considered by many to be the official start of Harborfest. The parade drew an unofficial throng estimated at about 1,000 participants, from infants to adults.

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Don’t Let Street Work Get In The Way of Harborfest Fun

July 27, 2018 Steve Yablonski

Mayor Billy Barlow said he hopes everyone has a happy and safe Harborfest weekend in the Port City and doesn’t mind the condition of some city streets. The only street closure for Harborfest is West Schuyler Street between First and Second streets for the Midway, he said. “We will have one lane closure, northbound on West First at Bridge Saturday evening / night only to assist with pedestrian traffic at that intersection the night of the fireworks,” he explained.

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Oswego Man Charged In Connection With A Slew Of Thefts In Scriba

July 27, 2018 Contributor

On 7/26/18 at 12:10 p.m., Drew M. Pelkey, 27, of 131 Creamery Road, Oswego, was arrested for three counts of Petit Larceny, a class A misdemeanor. The arrest stems from the investigation into larcenies that occurred on 7/11/18 in the town of Scriba where items were stolen out of vehicles. He was also charged in connection with several other crimes.

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