Oswego Daily News

A Faculty-Student Challenge Grant from the college’s Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee makes the project possible, providing the means for Hay, a senior journalism major, to do cinematography and editing for the documentary this summer, and for Riki (formerly Rikicia Levi) and David Levi – both now 80 – to return to Oswego for interviews from their homes in the New York metropolitan area for “A New Home in Oswego: The Story of Two Refugees.”

State Police arrested Austin M. Baker, 20, from Central Square, today (April 30). He was charged with Sex Abuse 1st degree (D-felony), Forcible Touching (A-misdemeanor) and Endangering the Welfare of a Child (A-misdemeanor). The arrest stems from an incident that allegedly occurred at a residence in the town of West Monroe on or about November 11, 2017.

The New York State Police are attempting to locate 21-year-old Kody L. Barr, who is a suspect in the cemetery desecration case which occurred in the village of Mexico Cemetery on March 31. If anyone has information on the whereabouts of Barr, they are asked to contact State Police in Pulaski at (315) 298-1473 or State Police Headquarters at (315) 366-6000 and reference case number 8161580.

This year marks the centennial of the end of World War I, making it the theme of this year’s Fort Ontario History Conference last weekend. Historians from across the U.S. and Canada spoke on various topics including the Armistice, the Remembrance Day poppy, and Canadian Army physician and poet John McCrae whose poem “In Flanders Fields” inspired the adoption of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance in Great Britain, Canada, the U.S., and other allied countries.

The New York State Police in Pulaski arrested Christopher D. Hoyt, age 32, from 5 James St., Pulaski, for one count of Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Child (D-felony) and three counts of Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child (E-felony).

Marking its 25th anniversary year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened a new special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. It examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe during the 1930s and ‘40s. Oswego, New York, is featured as part of the exhibition. A section of the fence was removed, treated, conserved, packaged and shipped to the curators at the U.S. Memorial Museum of the Holocaust in Washington DC.