A representative from the Upstate Poison Control Center of Syracuse spoke to nearly 60 people Wednesday night in Oswego. “Any time you’re messing with (synthetic drugs), it’s like playing Russian Roulette,” he said. “Not a good game.”
After nearly a year of planning a new Oswego High School mascot is expected to take to the sidelines in late September. Judy Queale-Dunsmoor, President of the Buccaneer Boosters, noted, “We started talking about this about a year ago. We hoped to increase school spirit and bring a professional image to the sidelines of our sports events and school assemblies.”
The entertainment lineup has been released for the upcoming CNY Great Pumpkin Festival, being held Sept. 29 and 30 in Washington Square Park in Oswego.
A rising number of young adults are returning home to live with parents, reshaping what it means to be 20 something in our culture as the economy makes it more and more difficult to find a job and pay living expenses.
The color and excitement of high school marching band competition will be on display Saturday in Oswego. The annual Oswego “Pageant of Champions” usually brings thousands of marching band fanatics to town and when the first band steps off the line at 6 p.m. a full house is expected to be involved in every move and note.
On September 14 and 15, the Oswego City Police Department deployed additional personnel to address quality of life concerns in residential neighborhoods.
This detail consisted of uniformed and plain clothes personnel. As a result of this effort, several arrests were made:
At this month’s Oswego County Legislature meeting, Emily Bradshaw spoke out on what she describes as ‘a nearly invisible’ problem – homelessness. Her quest is to have a shelter built to help those in need. In the meantime, she is collecting personal care items to make up personal care bags to hand out to the homeless at the DSS or OCO offices and in schools.
Early this morning (Sept. 16), control room operators removed Entergy’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from service to begin its 20th refueling and maintenance outage after generating electricity safely for 700 consecutive days. This marks the second consecutive time FitzPatrick has operated “breaker-to-breaker” (operating from one refueling outage to the next without needing to take the plant offline in between).
On April 3, 1994, Heidi Allen went missing from the convenience store at the intersection of Route 104 and 104B in New Haven. Authorities say she was kidnapped by a couple of local brothers and is presumed dead. Lisa Buske said she revealed the cover as a birthday gift to her sister, “and what better place than here at the remembrance garden.”
The New York State Department of Health has notified the Oswego County Health Department that evidence of the West Nile virus (WNV) was found in two different mosquito pools collected from the Toad Harbor Swamp area.
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