Oswego Daily News

The Career Technical Endorsements program is set to kick off this fall at OHS. The CTE program in Television Production will give students a leg up heading to college or entering the workforce, the program’s creator said. Students can also earn college credit while still in high school.

The Oswego Fire Department was dispatched at 2:42 p.m. today (March 18) to a possible structure fire at 134 Midland St., on the east side of the city. Fire officials stated that an occupant saw smoke coming from a bathroom and called 911. Crews were able to locate a small fire in the front wall of the structure and extinguished it quickly.

Oswego County Fire Coordinator Donald Forbes reminds county residents of the annual statewide ban on all open burning which is in effect in New York during the high fire-risk period of March 16 through May 14. The ban makes it illegal to use a burn barrel or open pit as a means for incinerating trash. The burning of leaves is also banned anytime of the year in New York State.

New York Sea Grant has received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the National Sea Grant College Program to track historic storm events along the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. The project will create a climatological event database to better assist risk projection to help communities increase their storm event resiliency.

Mayor Thomas W. Gillen announced the suspension of the alternate side winter parking restrictions, effective Wednesday (March 18), at 12:01 a.m. In accordance with the Oswego City Code, section 257-27, the Mayor may suspend or remove the winter parking ban prior to March 31 at his discretion if winter conditions permit. Residents are asked to be aware of our unpredictable weather and to minimize parking on our streets in the event of any future snowfall.

The Common Council is looking to help people improve their properties and not get hit in the wallet for it. To that end, Fifth Ward Councilor Bill Barlow has proposed implementing a new local law that would give homeowners incentive to make capital improvements.

Operators removed Nine Mile Point Unit 1 from service early this morning (March 16) for a planned refueling outage. While the unit is offline, skilled technicians will replace nearly one-third of the reactor’s fuel and perform thousands of inspections and maintenance activities to keep the unit running safely and effectively for another two years. Most of this work cannot be performed while the unit is online.