Oswego Daily News

Mayor Billy Barlow announced today the appointment of Erin Dorsey as chair of the Campus Community Relations Committee, a committee developed to connect the SUNY Oswego student and faculty community to the city. The committee, established in 2006 has previously worked with the city on assisting with neighborhood quality of life issues, public awareness campaigns and city-campus events to better include and connect the SUNY Oswego community to the greater Oswego community.

State Police arrested Kody L. Barr, 21, from Mexico, today (May 3) in connection with the recent vandalism in Mexico Village Cemetery. A 16-year-old boy was also charged with Cemetery Desecration 1st degree (E-felony), police said.

Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow announced the Oswego City Code Enforcement Office and the Oswego City Police Department will collaborate to conduct a “code enforcement blitz” on the west side of the city from State Route 104 to Lake Street in the First and Third wards.

At 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oswego firefighters were dispatched to a residential structure fire on East Ninth Street. While a family was displaced, damage was kept to a minimum and confined to the exterior siding and shed. The Red Cross is assisting the family.

Over the past few years as a legislator I’ve learned a lot about the great work that the county, our municipalities and our schools actually do. I have also learned through projects like the anti-poverty task force, shared services panel, economic development efforts and school collaborations that we all do even greater work when we all do it together, instead of struggling to make a difference in our individual silos. Having the State of the County here, in a town, in a school, in the middle of the county, is symbolic; more and more, every day, the county is moving out of its silo. We invite all of you to do the same.

A small crowd got to know a little bit about five of the six candidates seeking two open seats on the Oswego Board of Education Tuesday night. Christopher Joyce had planned on participating, but was called into work. The other five faced a series of questions submitted by audience members at the OHS cafeteria. The candidates include Thomas DeCastro (incumbent), Jeffrey King, Tom Ciappa, and former board members Kathleen Allen and Mike McLaughlin.

On Monday (April 30), at approximately 4 p.m., investigators with the Oswego County Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Oswego City Police Department, executed a narcotics related search warrant at the 300 building of 550 W. First St. in the city of Oswego. As a result of the search warrant execution, approximately 1,230 grams of Fentanyl, 324.3 grams of heroin and 62.1 grams of crack cocaine were seized, police said.

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.