Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow announced the city of Oswego has partnered with the Oswego County BOCES program to include the New Visions program in city government. The intern students will participate in police patrol ride-a-longs, code enforcement inspections and assist with economic development initiatives in the Community Development office.
Authorities are searching for four suspects in connection with the stabbing of an 18-year-old freshman earlier this morning on the SUNY Oswego campus. According to the college, the teen was assaulted and stabbed four times in the shoulder outside of the Shineman Center. He was taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse where he is expected to recover.
About 500 people attend each year — the conference is open to all educators from kindergarten through college and to other professionals interested in the latest developments in technology education. Educators who attend the conference will be eligible to earn up to 12 professional development hours.
At about 1:51 p.m. on Thursday (Oct. 13), Tyler J. Maitland, 22, of 1049 CR 48, Richland, was arrested for fourth-degree criminal mischief and third-degree fleeing officer in motor vehicle, both class A misdemeanors.
At the close of Thursday’s county legislature meeting, Phil Church, Oswego County Administrator, presented a succinct overview of the county’s proposed 2017 budget. The 2017 draft budget for the county is $198,530,227.
The Princeton Review educational services company recognized SUNY Oswego as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the seventh edition of its publication, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 361 Green Colleges.”
Oswego’s Civic Plaza will be transformed into an outdoor ice rink next month. And, if one councilor has his way, the plaza on the south side of Oswego City Hall just might receive a major facelift in the future. At this week’s council meeting, the mayor was authorized to execute a contract with Artificial Ice Events for the rental of the ice rink for the city’s tree lighting event in November. Later in the meeting, it was suggested the plaza could be repurposed for year-round events.
The day after NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week XLV dropped its final checkered flag, track crews began the process of removing the 500+ loads of clay that were temporarily dumped on Oswego Speedway’s asphalt racing surface to hold ‘Racing’s Biggest Party.’ Beginning early Monday afternoon, all remaining clay is expected to be lifted from the ‘Steel Palace’ by the end of the day on Friday leaving a full two weeks for final preparations leading to the Speedway’s next on track activity.
SUNY Oswego’s Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit will return to Waterman Theatre at 3 p.m. Oct. 27, with an accomplished panel of Oswego-connected personalities whose work encompasses art, music, theater and communications — all four of the School of Communication, Media and the Arts’ disciplines. The theme of their hour-long summit is “Digital, Social, Mobile: How Media Trends Impact Theatre, Music and Art.”
The Oswego council worked throughout the summer to come up with a winter parking policy that would be fair and make the majority of the residents happy. They aren’t quite there yet. However, at Monday’s meeting, they approved a policy that’s the best step going forward into the coming winter, the councilors agreed. The policy will be in effect from December 1 of each year until March 31 of the following year. It calls for no parking on residential streets from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m.; except for the downtown area where the ban is in effect 2 – 6 a.m.
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