It will be an opportunity for residents to bring up issues and ask questions of councilors and other city officials. It is tentatively scheduled for some time in April. Also, some funding for the Lighthouse Project is approved.
The project, started by Emily Bradshaw, recently distributed its 1,000th personal care bag. Since last fall, she’s been collecting shampoo, bar soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant and other items to aid area homeless or nearly homeless individuals or families in need. She is also helping with OCO’s Lucky 13’ Bowl-A-Fun.
An ivory grand piano, on which hundreds of local students learned to play, is now being enjoyed by the residents of Springside at Seneca Hill. Donna and Dante Ascenzi recently donated the G175 Young Chang piano to the retirement community, where her parents, Jack and Joan Taber reside.
The Section III Division II ice hockey title will be on the line on Saturday when the Oswego High School Bucs face off against the Brothers of CBA on the Utica Aud ice at 3:15 p.m. On Thursday night the Bucs gave up a late goal with time winding down and were forced to skate not one, but two, overtime sessions before skating away with a 5-4 win over second seeded New Hartford.
The plan can help lessen the impact of disasters like the snowstorm in 2007 and the ice storm a few years before that. And, it can help the city save money in dealing with such calamities, the county’s Emergency Services Program coordinator said.
Col. Zebulon Pike’s brutal winter encampment at Plattsburgh, and stories of daily life in the North Country during the War of 1812, are among the topics to be presented at the third annual Oswego War of 1812 Symposium.
Rep. Dan Maffei has been traveling around the district and meeting with people. The one message he’s heard loud and clear is that “we need to grow our middle class, fix our economy, and create more good paying jobs in Central New York. These are our top priorities,” he said.
The State Education Department’s review of Dr. Dean Goewey has concluded with the finding that he “has the requisite good moral character to be a teacher and administrator in New York State.”
More than 60 people filled the room at the village hall for the public hearing on the March vote to keep or shut down the department. They heard Mayor Karl Hax say that the department needs a second full-time officer in order to be effective and to raise the hourly rate of part-time deputies in order to attract and keep them.
The Oswego County Health Department and SUNY Oswego health officials have located persons who had close contact with the student. Several close acquaintances were treated with preventative medication at the Mary Walker Health Center at SUNY Oswego.
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