Paddlers and spectators have a chance to win a new Perception Prodigy 12 kayak valued at $700 at the Oswego “Rock the Locks” Paddlefest on June 29. The 12-foot Prodigy weighs 53 pounds and is designed for user-friendly comfort with a water-tight storage compartment to carry gear.
At its meeting this week, the Administrative Services Committee recommended turning a “lake” back into a “pond.” Tony Leotta, city engineer, and Mike Smith, DPW commissioner, requested the purchasing agent seek proposals to clean out the culvert, beneath the approach to East Seneca Street Bridge to correct the flooding problem. The existing 24-inch diameter culvert under the easterly approach to the East Seneca Street bridge is plugged and is creating a large “lake” on the property between Route 104 and East Seneca Street adjacent to the CSX Railroad, Leotta said.
The event is an international competition for high school students who’ve completed projects to solve real-world environmental issues. This year’s Olympiad is the largest in the event’s short history with more than 550 participants from across the United States and the world. The awards ceremony is open to the public and is scheduled for Friday at 1:15 p.m. in the Campus Center Arena.
Board members unanimously agreed to a contract with the Association of Administrative Personnel. The contract will expire on June 30, 2016 and provides for a 2% annual raise in salary. The board faced a full agenda during its final 2012-013 regular meeting. Under the “Board of Education” portion the canvass for the May budget vote and elections was approved and the board accepted the meeting schedule for 2013-2014. The “Instruction” area of the agenda passed unanimously. Approval was given for the continuation of the First Robotics Club, Sailing Club and Weight Lifting Club at the Oswego High School.
Summer arrives at 1:04 a.m. on Friday. It leaves behind a rather average spring. The average temperature was nearly 2 degrees warmer than average. While the area has been stymied recently by heavy rainfall, for the spring the total was 2.22 inches below average.
A one-day count of homeless individuals in Oswego County, the Point in Time survey, mandated by the federal department of Housing and Urban Development, is a concise effort area human service agencies that serves to raise the awareness of homelessness and helps to compile an approximate number of those who are homeless, or are housing vulnerable, in Oswego County.
Two agencies in Oswego County will share in the funding. The City of Fulton Community Development Agency is in line to receive $16,690. And, the Oswego Housing Development Council, in Parish, will receive $16,321. Both provide housing assistance.
Gary Mix has been appointed as the Oswego City School District Interim Superintendent of Schools. On Tuesday night, the Oswego City School District Board of Education unanimously approved the appointment. Mix will commence his duties in the Oswego City School District on Tuesday, July 2. The board will pay Mix $2,400 per week during the months of July and August and $3,000 per week during the months of September through December.
Former WRVO general manager and on-air host John Krauss died Monday June 17, 2013, in Oswego. Krauss was one of the longest serving station administrators in public broadcasting having held various managerial titles for more than 40 years, 14 as general manager. He retired in 2010. Krauss was 64.
The sights, sounds, and smells of camp and garrison life during the French and Indian War will greet visitors to Fort Ontario State Historic Site in Oswego the weekend of June 29 and 30. Encampments of British, French and Native American troops and warriors who fought each other at Oswego during the 1750s will be displayed from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 29 and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 30.
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