Oswego Daily News

Together, we stand united; and, when we do that, the entire community benefits. That was the message delivered Wednesday at the United Way of Greater Oswego County’s annual campaign kickoff meeting at The American Foundry. Guest speaker, Stacy Alvord, director of the county’s Department of Social Services, told the crowd what living united means.

Dr. Sungeun Kim, a faculty member of SUNY Oswego’s electrical and computer engineering department, recently received a grant award of nearly $119,000 to use big-data techniques in support of earlier and more accurate diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The grant, from the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, will assist a project — “Integrating Neuroimaging, Multi-omics, and Clinical Data in Complex Disease” — that Kim has under way in collaboration with two other researchers.

Totally TEAL benefit remembers Mary Gosek, raises awareness about ovarian cancer. “As the group assembled for the photo a beautiful monarch butterfly swooped and swirled by, traversing the width of the Culkin Hall steps right in front of the entire group gathered there. I honestly believe Mary was among us this morning.”

As soon as the “Steel Palace” its doors on Oswego Speedway’s 2017 season, it began to morph into the “Clay Palace.” DIRT Week is scheduled for October 1- 8 and the track is nearly ready, according to Jeff Hachmann, director of events. The track is just about ready, a bit faster than last year, he told Oswego County Today. But there are a mryiad other pieces of the puzzle to contend with, he added.

The Port City’s winter parking policy for this winter will be the same as it was last winter. “We voted down a change to the law tonight. So the policy that we had last year still stand,” said Councilor Nate Emmons. “In terms of the exception policy, if you don’t have a driveway you can apply for a permit and be able to park one car on the street.”

Team Red, White and Blue leads the 2017 9/11 Memorial Run through downtown Oswego on Monday morning.

SUNY Oswego’s public justice department and its David F. Cutler ’74 Public Justice Excellence Fund will feature Dewey Bozella, who spent 26 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned, speaking at 5 p.m. Sept. 27, in Room 101 of Lanigan Hall. Bozella’s presentation, “Wrongfully Convicted: Life Lessons and Reflections After Liberation,” is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.

From the wag of a tail, to barking, various dogs and their owners participated in the 12th annual Rover Run 5k and family fun day on Sunday at SUNY Oswego’s Fallbrook Recreation Center. The Oswego County Humane Society has hosted the event since 2004. It’s a great opportunity for dogs to get to know each other and have fun, the organizers said. Joanne Piersma, a director at the Oswego County Humane Society said that the event was a good representation of the values the humane society wants to instill in the community.