Oswego Daily News

A group of concerned citizens spent their lunch hour Tuesday holding an informational picket outside Oswego City Hall. “If you look at where we’re going to pay for this on the back end, we’re going to see the deficit balloon,” explained Tom Drumm, one of the organizers. “What you’ll see nationally is massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. This hurts New York, in my opinion. (The plan) seems to go after the poor and the elderly; which is the playbook we typically see. It hurts our most vulnerable populations.”

Federal funding is available to the state and to tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the flooding in the counties of Jefferson, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, St. Lawrence, and Wayne.

The free classes are tailored for first responders and those likely to witness an opioid overdose. The first session runs from 10 to 11:30 a.m., with a second to follow from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Both take place at the Oswego County Health Department, 70 Bunner St., Oswego. The third and fourth sessions are scheduled to run from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Ringgold Fire Station, 12 Lake St., Pulaski.

A crash this evening (Nov. 10) involving a gasoline tanker and a pickup truck has claimed the lives of two people. The accident happened on State Route 3 near Munger Hill Road in the Town of Mexico just before 6 p.m. Two passengers in the pickup were killed, deputies said.

SUNY Oswego University Police charged two students with third-degree criminal mischief, a Class E felony. Police arrested Andre La Fleur, 22, of Putnam Valley, and Nicholas J. LaRocca, 20, of Washingtonville, on Thursday, Nov. 9. They are accused of destroying a wooden bench near Seneca Hall.