National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, Oct. 23 – 29, focuses on the ways parents can reduce children’s exposure to lead in their environment and prevent serious side effects. This year’s theme, “Lead-Free Kids for a Healthy Future,” underscores the importance of having children tested for lead poisoning, and learning how to prevent lead poisoning’s serious health effects.
The city’s recent efforts to crack down on landlords whose properties are in need of repair due to severe code violations, or are delinquent in their taxes or water bills came under fire Monday night. At the council’s public session, two speakers pointed out while the initiative was well-intentioned, it was having unwanted repercussions.
Oswego AmeriCorps recently welcomed a new class of AmeriCorps members who pledged to “Get Things Done” for Oswego County. They joined the one million men and women who have taken the same pledge since AmeriCorps’ inception in 1994.
It’s not yet Halloween, but it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas. A troupe of volunteers is working to put the finishing touches on the 2016 Oswego Christmas Tree Lighting and Holiday Expo. The annual holiday celebration will kick off at 9 a.m. Nov. 26 and run until 10 p.m. Besides a visit from Santa, a myriad of holiday events will be held – including ice skating at a temporary rink in Civic Plaza.
The high winds overnight Saturday and into Sunday morning caused some minor damage around the Port City.
SUNY Oswego’s enterprising Agricultural Testing and Analysis Labs at the Port of Oswego and the Shineman Center won a national Award of Excellence on Tuesday at the University Economic Development Association Annual Summit in Roanoke, Virginia.
Dr. Allison Rank, assistant professor of Political Science at SUNY Oswego will be one of the three speakers on the panel at next week’s Populating the Polls: Then and Now There will also be An exhibition of posters created by upstate New York designers urging residents to get out to the polls and vote. Just recently, Dr. Rank spearheaded Vote Oswego, which collected 2,637 forms to register SUNY Oswego students to vote.
“Today’s challenge to the Clean Energy Standard does not take away from the thousands of people across the State of New York who support the measure, and support nuclear energy for the carbon-free energy it produces,” said Gary Toth, vice chair of the County of Oswego Industrial Development Agency and UEJ member: “This lawsuit, filed by gas, oil and coal generators, is blatantly putting specific business interests ahead of what is best for New York.”
Today (Oct. 19), the IBEW Utility Labor Council of New York, along with the Central and Northern New York Building and Construction Trades Council and the Rochester Building and Construction Trades Council, reiterated its strong support for New York’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) and voiced their disappointment at the lawsuit filed by gas, oil and coal generators seeking to halt the implementation of the CES.
New York Sea Grant is reminding boaters, canoeists, kayakers, anglers, hunters who enjoy being on the water through the fall season that New York State law requires anyone in a boat that is less than 21 feet long on New York waters to wear a Coast Guard-approved floatation device life from November 1 to May 1.
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