Oswego Daily News

UPDATE: Victims Identified

At about 8:05 a.m. today (Dec. 12), members of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office responded to a two-vehicle motor vehicle crash on Sate Route 3 in the town of Palermo that resulted in two fatalities.

The North Country, which includes Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties and which once again was named a “top performer” in the Governor’s annual economic growth competition, will receive $81.3 million. The Central New York region, including Oswego County, is in line for $66.9 million in economic development investment by the state.

UPDATE: Two residents of 98 E. Cayuga St. Oswego are under arrest following an investigation into a possible Meth lab in Oswego. It is the second such investigation within a week.

SUNY Oswego and a well-known communications university in Beijing recently signed an agreement that could send as many as 20 Chinese students a year to Oswego to complete their undergraduate degrees in broadcasting and mass communications, journalism and public relations.

A grassroots group has sprung up in the Port City to ensure those who need warm clothing this winter can have some. “I’m not sure how it all started, except that Bernadet Pryor is the mind behind it.  She goes out of her way to help as many people as she can,” said Terry Moody. The group will be having another free clothing giveaway this Saturday at the Grace Lutheran Church.

The “Alternate-Side Parking Restriction” will be in effect, commencing Wednesday at 1 a.m. During such time as the parking restriction is imposed, the parking of any vehicle on any city street or highway from 1 to 6 a.m. on an even numbered side of the street on an odd calendar day, or an odd numbered side of the street on an even calendar day, shall be prohibited.

At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council got a small sample of what’s likely in store for them next week. Four city residents voiced their opposition to the mayor’s proposed 2014 city budget. There will be a public meeting on Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Oswego Middle School (in the gym) to discuss the proposed budget, Mayor Gillen said. The public hearing on the budget will be Dec. 23.

Everyone is probably familiar with the term senioritus. But, it’s not until your senior year of college that one can truly know the symptoms that accompany the transition from college to the workforce. All you can hope is that college prepared you well. The realization, at least for me, happened about four weeks into my last semester at Oswego State, which is the current semester I am enrolled in.

Students belonging to the SUNY Oswego chapter of the anti-poverty group ONE recently won a national challenge for awareness-raising and lobbying efforts. Members have now written more than 570 letters to congressional representatives on issues related to poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the need for electricity, said Sara Cooper, president of the Oswego chapter she helped found starting this summer.