According to Bill Gregway, local observer for the National Weather Service, this April was the wettest that the area has seen since 1859. May came in at 1.64 inches wetter than average, he added. When asked how the rain was affecting his farm’s crops, Jeff Halstead of Halstead’s Harvest summed it up with: “One word. Terrible.” Other farmers, all across the county, feel the same way.
It was first spotted on Wednesday at a County Route 1A residence about a mile east of Novelis. He stayed for about an hour before heading back into the woods. There were a couple reports of the bear walking through St. Paul’s Cemetery on Oswego’s east side on Thursday. A witness said it walked through the cemetery and then ran off into the woods.
SUNY Oswego professors, student organizations and others have worked together to send a large shipment of textbooks to a university in South Sudan. In an effort to supply the John Garang Memorial University library in South Sudan, around 5,000 textbooks were donated along with more than $5,000.
The average temperature was 2.7 degrees higher than average. Precipitation for May was 1.64 inches higher than normal. And, there was plenty of fog, too.
The mission of the bookmobile is really quite simply. It’s about getting books to kids and empowering them to be great readers, organizers said. It will also prevent regression of students’ reading abilities over the summer, they added.
Oswego veterans were joined by dozens in Veterans’ Memorial Park Monday to pay tribute to their fallen comrades. A small, poignant ceremony was held earlier at the west end of the Utica Street Bridge to honor Gold Star Mothers.
Battle of the Bulge group among largest contingent of single campaign veterans to be granted this recognition. It is also the first multi-member group to receive honor. John Canale, the group’s founder, will represent the group at a ceremony to be held in Albany on June 14, Flag Day.
According to the WHO, young women are a major target for the tobacco industry in its effort to recruit new users to replace those who will quit or die prematurely from tobacco-related diseases. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death and kills more than five million people every year, about 1.5 million of whom are women.
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