Oswego Daily News

A surprising win for Democrat Dan Maffei in Oswego County helped him build a lead that is likely to give him back the seat in Congress he lost to Ann Marie Buerkle two years ago. […]

A ‘Celebration of Youth in Song’ will be held November 11 at 2:30 p.m. Waterman Theatre in Tyler Hall on the SUNY Oswego campus.

Students at the newly formed junior-senior high school in Oswego are doing very well, according to the principal. The board is looking at options to allow the 7-9 school to continue to grow into a 7-12 school. Or it could decide to restrict its growth keeping it as a 7-9 school in the portable site behind Oswego Middle School.

During the course of their on-going investigations into illegal drug activity in the city of Oswego, members of the Oswego City Police Department’s Anti-Crime Team developed information regarding an illegal marihuana grow in the town of Palermo.

UPDATE:  On November 6, the suspect in the November 4 larceny from Aldi’s was arrested by Oswego Police.  On Sunday at about 11:14 a.m. Oswego Police responded to Aldi’s, 290 State Route 104, Oswego, regarding a male that had just stole an undisclosed amount of cash from their register and fled the store.

November 4, at approximately 9:53 p.m., FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant experienced an automatic reactor shutdown. The automatic reactor shutdown was as a result of a main turbine trip that occurred while regularly scheduled turbine testing was being performed.

Specialist Brett E. Gornewicz from Alden, Specialist Ryan P. Jayne from Campbell, and Staff Sgt. Dain T. Venne, from Port Henry, died of wounds suffered when their humvee was struck by an improvised explosive device. The three men were assigned to the 444th Engineer Company which is headquartered in Oswego.

The candidate for state senate also believes it is time to raise the minimum wage and is “a big proponent of campaign finance reform so that we can attract qualified candidates from our citizenry.”

“Many people thought Albany was broken, that taxes could only go up and that things could only get worse. But, in the past two years we have started to see a change – and that’s something that I’m proud to be a part of. Now, Democrats and Republicans are working together, and we’re getting real results,” she said.