Due to the growing homeless population in Oswego County, the Oswego County Department of Social Services has partnered with the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau, Oswego County Opportunities, and Catholic Charities to utilize AmeriCorps members under the Economic Opportunity Program to help provide homeless services for many at-risk individuals. The program began earlier this fall.
Election Day is just a few weeks away so Oswego County Today has compiled for our readers this list of who is running for what office along with a link to the candidates’ websites, blogs or Facebook pages.
The auction to benefit the Oswego Lighthouse restoration project, originally scheduled for October 25, has been rescheduled to April 25, 2015. Donations are still being accepted and are strongly encouraged from the community. “In order to maximize the auction as a fund raiser for the Lighthouse, we decided to reschedule the event to April 25, 2015,” said Mercedes Niess, executive director of the H. Lee White Marine Museum.
On Saturday, October 18, beginning at 7 a.m., George Street between East Seneca Street and State Route 104 will be closed to through traffic for an area construction project. The closure is only planned to last one day and regular traffic patterns are anticipated to resume
on Sunday, October 19.
The Oswego County Board of Elections office will be open extra hours on the following dates for those who wish to receive absentee ballot applications or file paperwork. The Board of Elections is located at 185 E. Seneca St., Oswego.
SUNY Oswego’s School of Business appears on Princeton Review’s 2015 list of “The Best 296 Business Schools,” an annual distinction of more than a decade’s standing. “External validation, whether from Princeton Review or U.S. News, affirms the quality of our business programs,” said Richard Skolnik, dean of the business school.
The 1976 SUNY Oswego grad returned to the college on Thursday to do live broadcasts for the Today Show. The college’s TV station is named in his honor. He did some broadcasts from there, but most were shown live from the front entrance way of the Campus Center – surrounded by hundreds of students and others who flocked to the college to be part of the event.
The Friends of Fort Ontario, Central New York Ghost Hunters, and other ghost-hunting groups return to the Fort Ontario State Historic Site, 1 E. Fourth St., to host Ghost Tours October 17 and 18. Guided tours run in 15-minute increments from 7 to 10 both evenings.
Councilors decided Tuesday night to forgo a previous purchase offer and put the site up for sale for sale for its fair market value pursuant to the policy and procedures of the city of Oswego for foreclosed property disposition.
Phoenix Central School graduates will soon have a new opportunity to assist with college costs thanks to a large scholarship fund recently established by an alumna of the district. After the March 2014 passing of Roberta Hurd, a graduate of the Class of 1939, the Robert and Roberta Hurd Scholarship Fund was established with a bequest gift to the Central New York Community Foundation – totaling upwards of $1 million.
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