The Oswego City-County Youth Bureau is accepting applications for mini-grants for 2014. Not-for-profit community organizations can apply for up to $1,000 for activities for youth during hours when school is not in session.
County residents will be able to safely dispose of unwanted chemicals, pesticides, and other hazardous waste products beginning May 3 at the Oswego County Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Facility. Located at the Bristol Hill Landfill, Volney, the facility will be open Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 to 11 a.m. from May through September.
The incident was reported to Oswego County 911 around 8:30 p.m. as a kitchen fire. Fire officials declared the fire under control minutes later, with damage limited to the kitchen area. Firefighters remained on the scene for nearly an hour ventilating smoke from the structure. One person was reportedly treated on the scene for smoke inhalation.
Dr. Barry A. Friedman, professor of management in SUNY Oswego’s School of Business and author of more than 35 peer-reviewed articles on topics as diverse as corporate reputation and parents’ school satisfaction, is this year’s recipient of the college President’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity. The college Provost’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity, recognizing research excellence within the recipient’s first six years at the college, goes to School of Business faculty member, Dr. Hong Wan.
On Wednesday, the Oswego City Police Department began an investigation of an alleged sexual assault. On Thursday, Fareed Hosein, 29, of 26 W. Fourth St., Apt. #2, Oswego, was arrested and charged
SUNY Oswego earth sciences faculty member and paleontologist Diana Boyer has received a three-year, $52,000 National Science Foundation grant to advance understanding of a mass extinction whose evidence lies in ancient layers of black shale in Western New York and Eastern Ohio.
On Thursday night, the legislature approved transferring $500,000 from the appropriated fund balance into the prisoner charges – other facilities budget line in order to meet the expense already incurred and to cover the estimated expenses during the remainder of 2014. In the first two months of the year, the expense to house inmates elsewhere amounted to $130,000. That exhausted the adopted 2014 budget amount of $100,000.
More than 60 colleges and universities will have displays and representatives on hand to talk with prospective students and their families from 6 to 8 p.m. April 28, at Oswego County’s first College Fair.
The Oswego City Police Department has received information that the reported missing person, Charles J. Rice, was seen on Tuesday April 8, in the city of Auburn. It is believed he boarded a CENTRO bus around 2 p.m. in Auburn and traveled to the city of Syracuse. Anyone with information on Rice’s location is urged to contact police at 315-343-1212.
If you or someone in your family has memories of the 1944-1946 Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter located in Oswego, then the Safe Haven Museum wants to hear from you. Museum board members and SUNY Oswego students have launched a project called, “The Neighbors Project,” to collect and catalogue these stories.
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