The people spoke and the council listened Monday night. The Common Council voted 3-4 against a zone change for 134 and 140 E. 13th St., from R-3 Residential to B-1 Neighborhood Business. Chris LaBarge sought the zone change in order to purchase the property and build a hotel there.
However, nearly a dozen residents of the area spoke out against the plan for an hour at the council’s public session.
The Oswego High School boys’ hockey team could not have picked a better time to have one of the best games of the year. On Saturday, at the Utica Auditorium the Oswego High School Bucs dominated Skaneateles with a 5-0 win enroute to the Section III Division II Championships.
In county court this morning (Feb. 27), Quentin J. Hicks accepted a plea deal in his case. Earlier this month, he was offered a sentence of 2 to 8 years in state prison if he accepted a deal to plead guilty to second-degree attempted conspiracy. He admitted in court that he tried to hire a hit man to kill his wife, going as far as providing a sketch of the home.
The Sackets Harbor resident is coming back to her hometown so people can get reacquainted wth her and hear why she is seeking the Republican nomination and ultimately the congressional seat in New York’s 23rd District.
The top-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team made sure that last year’s State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) semifinal loss did not repeat itself, as the Lakers scored six straight goals in the first and second periods en route to an 8-3 win over Fredonia (12-11-3) on Saturday.
It has been over 50 years, but the Oswego State men’s basketball team can call itself State University of New York Athletic Conference champions once again. The Lakers (25-3) capped off a perfect regular season and a 3-0 tournament run with a thrilling 66-57 win over second-seeded Cortland (21-7) at Max Ziel Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.
The Oswego State women’s ice hockey team (11-13-2) posted the program’s first-ever playoff win against Neumann University (9-13-2) in a 3-0 shutout at the Campus Center Arena Saturday afternoon. Bridget Smith (Fr. Hamburg, NY) played phenomenally, stopping 18 shots
The top-seeded and 14th-ranked Oswego State men’s basketball team is just 40 minutes of basketball away from its first SUNYAC championship since the 1960s after edging fourth-seeded Brockport, 64-57, in the semifinals at Laker Hall Friday night.
Twenty years ago, local businessman Jeffrey Carson bought a plot of land in Sleepy Hollow in southwest Oswego Town. He has been fighting to build on it ever since.
The urgency on addressing the synthetic drug problem has once again been highlighted today with the press conference held by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. Assemblyman Will Barclay who has introduced legislation calling for the ban of synthetic drugs in the New York State Assembly, welcomes the added discussion on the issue.
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