Throughout the ceremony, the curtains hiding the guest of honor continued to billow, partially revealing the larger-than-life figure. It was as if Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was telling the speakers who paraded to the podium Saturday morning in front of the Oswego Town Hall to hurry up and introduce her.
Two local business were honored last Friday with SBA Small Business Excellence Awards at the DoubleTree Hotel in East Syracuse. The U.S. Small Business Administration and the New York Business Development Corporation hosted the 14th annual luncheon to recognize the achievements of local small businesses.
On May 9, members from the Oswego City Police Department Criminal Investigative Division responded to a 911 dispatch for a larceny in progress at Bosco & Geers. The suspect was also charged in connection with an earlier incident.
Mike & Molly were lucky to find the porch of kind-hearted strangers in Constantia several months ago, when they found themselves inexplicably on their own. If you are their owner or have any idea who might be, please call the Humane Society at 315-207-1070 or Diane Broadwell at 315-564-7442.
At 8:35 a.m. on Thursday, Zachary J. Coe, 18, of 824 Baldwin Road, Fulton was arrested for forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. He allegedly held the victim down by restraining their hands and touched the victim’s breast.
At 8:50 a.m. on Thursday, Dale L. Fiske, 31, of Burdick Drive Bldg. 33, Hastings, was arrested for second-degree menacing, a class A misdemeanor. He allegedly pointed a rifle at the victim during a verbal argument.
The Oswego County Legislature voted Thursday to approve a project to help locate and eradicate more mosquitoes that may carry the deadly Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus. Members of Maggie Sue Glenister Wilcox’s family were on hand to urge the legislators help stop the spread of EEE.
April showers didn’t quite live up to expectations last month. The average temperature last month was 45.8 degrees. That is 1.1 degrees warmer than normal. However, total precipitation for the month came in at 2.14 inches. That is 1.18 inches below average.
Mayor Tom Gillen has announced that an initiative of the Campus-City Relations Committee, the Hall Newman Center and SUNY Oswego’s Campus Life and Residence Life and Housing offices will encourage students to donate rather than discard household and personal items as they prepare to leave town for the summer. The reuse effort, called “Leave Green,” will help the local Oswego community while diverting usable items from the waste stream.
World Fishing Network.com is searching for the Ultimate Fishing Town, and Oswego County has not one, but two communities nominated: Oswego and Pulaski. The town that wins will be crowned WFN’s Ultimate Fishing Town, receive a $25,000 community donation, and have a television feature produced on WFN as the Ultimate Fishing Town!
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