“This weekend is about commemorating the 67th anniversary of D-Day, in which our national historic landmark tugboat, the LT-5, participated,” said Mercedes Niess, executive director of the museum. “We’re recognizing not only the veterans of our county but also this tugboat as well.”
Here is a look back at some of the scenes from this week in and around Oswego.
If you have seen Shilo call 315-592-1762. She is a female Siamese lynx point. She was last seen Wednesday (June 1) around East Seventh Street and East Utica Street.
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.
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