On Tuesday (November 3), at approximately 12:50 p.m. the Oswego City Police Department’s Patrol Division, assisted by the Oswego County Drug Task Force, executed a drug related search warrant at 28 W. Fourth St., Oswego. Two residents of that address, 20-year-old Jamison S. Limperis and 23-year-old Michael S. Wolf, were arrested and criminally charged.
The Board of Education of the Oswego City School District has received, and is accepting, the written resignation of Superintendent Benjamin Halsey, according to Board President Kathleen Allen. He is on leave of absence, with pay and benefits, through Friday, November 13.
The rally is part of a community effort to have Fort Ontario State Historic Site and the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum elevated to National Monument status and into the National Park Service.
Barlow wins race for mayor’s seat in Oswego.
Our first thoughts today are with the employees, families and businesses that will be impacted, Legislature Chairman Kevin Gardner and Oswego County Administrator Philip Church said in a joint statement to the media this afternoon. “This community appreciates the hard-working people who may be impacted, and we want you to know we support you,” they said. “We urge federal, state and Entergy officials to continue dialogue, and to not stop working to find a way to keep FitzPatrick operating.”
Today (Nov. 2), Pete S. Holmes, 32, of Parish was sentenced to a total of 1.5 years in state prison, along with 1 year post-release supervision, based upon his convictions for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree and Unlawful Manufacture of Methamphetamine in the Third Degree.
State Senator Patty Ritchie summed up Entergy’s announcement that it plans to shut down the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in one sentence. “To say that the news concerning FitzPatrick is disappointing is a serious understatement,” she told Oswego County Today. Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed the same sentiments.
Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) announced today (Nov. 2) that it will close the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, in late 2016 or early 2017.
The company said its decision to close the plant is based on the continued deteriorating economics of the facility.
On October 27, Oswego County District Attorney Gregory Oakes appeared before the Public Safety Committee of the County Legislature and presented a progress report on the county’s Welfare Fraud Program. DA Oakes was joined by Cheryl Wallace, who served as the supervisor of Investigation and Benefit Recovery Unit at the Oswego County Department of Social Services for most of the past four years.
Two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes without a working smoking alarm, according to the National Fire Protection Agency. The Oswego Fire Department reminds you to not only change your clock for Daylight Saving Time but the batteries in your smoke alarms, too.
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