Merlyn Fuller, known to visitors at the Sterling Renaissance Festival as Merry Mischief, has recently published her first book – Fairy Tales & Horror Stories: A Memoir, recalling her North Country childhood and her counter-cultural adulthood. Her music and a book reading will take place June 14 at Fulton’s Arts in the HeART Gallery, at 47 S. First St., across from the city’s gazebo.
State Senator Patty Ritchie announced today (June 12) two of her bills to ease local county jail overcrowding and alleviate costs to taxpayers by requiring the state to move more quickly when picking up inmates and placing them back in state prisons were approved by the Senate Wednesday.
Mayor Thomas W. Gillen on Tuesday announced that he has chosen Mark J. Slosek as Oswego’s new City Historian. Slosek is a retired school administrator and former American history teacher, whose career in public education spanned thirty-nine years of service with the Fulton School District.
Operation Oswego County held its 62nd annual meeting at the SUNY Oswego Campus Center on Tuesday. Kevin LaMontagne, president of the OOC board of directors, welcomed more than 160 representatives of businesses, government, education, labor and other ally organizations to the meeting. Keynote presenter Zelko Kirincich, executive director of the Port of Oswego Authority, highlighted plans to increase activity at the port,
Due to the structural concerns of the former Cahill/Coleman Building, a section of the West Linear Park has been closed.
State Senator Patty Ritchie beat back a challenge by downstate nuclear power opponents and won final legislative passage of her bill allowing Oswego County to continue to negotiate tax agreements with the operators of three nuclear power plants, helping to stabilize local g
Sixth graders Alyssa Searor and Maddy Graham wanted to do something for a good cause and both enjoyed crafting. Alyssa said, “I was making lots of loom bracelets and Mrs. Haessig thought it might be a way of helping others.” Meanwhile, Maddy noted, “We thought it would be nice to have a fundraiser for Oswego Oncology and the Galisano Children’s Hospital and we are doing that through making crafts.”
This year’s Bug Run will be held on June 14, at the Home of the Comets’, Hazzy’s Tavern, in beautiful, scenic, downtown New Haven.
The north end of East Fourth Street is steeped in history. The area is home to Fort Ontario and the Safe Haven Museum. On Tuesday afternoon, some new history was added to the mix. In a brief ceremony, witnessed by nearly two dozen people, Oswego Mayor Tom Gillen officially dedicated the stretch of roadway as Barbara Donahue Drive.
At about 12:45 a.m. today (June 10), the Oswego City Police Department’s Anti-Crime Team executed a search warrant at 24 Ontario St., second floor apartment, in the city of Oswego, relative an investigation into the alleged crack cocaine sales being perpetrated at that location. A Syracuse man and an Oswego woman were arrested as a result.
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