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Oswego County Combats Jail Overcrowding with Alternatives to Incarceration

The Oswego County Legislature’s Public Safety and Finance and Personnel committees have approved a budget modification request from Oswego County Sheriff Reuel A. Todd to cover the cost of housing inmates out-of-county. In the first two months of the year, this expense amounted to $130,000 which exhausted the adopted 2014 budget amount of $100,000.

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Hundreds Turn Out To Remember Heidi Allen

Always hopeThe New Haven teenager was kidnapped on April 3, 1994. A huge crowd packed the New Haven Fire Hall on Thursday night to share stories and keep hope alive that some day the mystery of ‘Where is Heidi” will be solved. Pastor Vivian Summerville, the same pastor who led the vigils in 1994 and 1995, led prayers Thursday.

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Freezin’ for a Reason in Oswego – Polar Plunge Set Saturday

A large crowd took part in the previous  Polar Plunge for Special Olympics. The 2014 event is set for Saturday. More than 100 participants are signed up for the second annual Plunge for Special Olympics New York and will take an icy dip into Ontario Lake on Saturday in support of local area Special Olympics athletes. Sergeant Jim Cunningham, officers Lysa Dolin, Bryan Thompson and Kevin Engle of the Oswego Police Department will lead the plunge carrying the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics “Flame of Hope.”

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State Police charge Mexico Man with Impersonating a Police Officer

State Police in Fulton were contacted on Monday (3/31/14) by the town of Volney Fire Chief regarding a suspicious vehicle. This investigation resulted in the arrest of 40-year-old Christopher A. Hughes from Mexico. Hughes was charged with 1 count of Criminal Impersonation in the 2nd Degree, a class “A” misdemeanor.

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Fourth Annual Symposium Focuses on Many Aspects of the War of 1812

The Oswego War of 1812 Symposium addresses the memory of war and its brave soldiers at the fourth annual event Friday, April 4 to Sunday, April 6. Pictured are the tombstones of two local War of 1812 heroes. Captain John Meacham (left) was a descendant of Captain Myles Standish, the famous military captain who arrived on the Mayflower, and brother of Col. Thomas Standish Meacham, organizer of “The Great Cheese” presentation to President Andrew Jackson in 1836. He recruited many of his neighbors to form a military company which was called upon to defend Sackets Harbor on two occasions and Oswego once. Private Silas Harmon (right) was best-known for organizing the famous 1823 Revolutionary War salute to surviving veterans in the town of Richland.Come to the fourth annual Oswego War of 1812 Symposium next weekend at the Lake Ontario Conference and Event Center on East First Street in Oswego. Hear true stories about the war along the New York-Canadian border from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 5 and from 9 a.m. to noon on Sunday, April 6. The event opens on Friday, April 4 with a student presentation competition, a meet-and-greet social with cash bar, and early registration from 6 to 9 p.m.

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