Mayor Randolph F. Bateman is pleased to announce the appointment of Police Captain Tory L. DeCaire as the new Police Chief for the City of Oswego. DeCaire will replace Chief Michael Dehm Jr., who is retiring effective May 31.
This Friday evening is one of the major musical events of the year. An “Evening of Big Band Jazz” will showcase the Oswego Middle School Jazz Band as well as the Oswego High School A and B Jazz Ensembles. This year’s featured guest will be Lew Soloff who is known for his performances with Blood, Sweat and Tears.
The FBI is investigating the Oswego County Clerk’s Office and its assocaition with Info Quick Solutions, the Clay company that has done business with the county.
The board of education voted 5 – 2 to approve extending Bill Crist’s contract through June 30, 2013. They also accepted several retirements, mostly from teachers.
The council approved a request by the Rotarians to use Leotta Park and the Railroad Tunnel on June 11. The event will support the many community service projects of Rotary. Councilors also approved replacing the word “alderman” in the city charter with “councilor.”
The driver of the vehicle was found to allegedly be in possession of approximately 1.2 grams of cocaine. Further investigation developed information which led to the search of two residences in the city of Oswego.
At approximately 2:49 p.m. on Sunday, Oswego City Police responded to 140 State Route 104, the Oswego Plaza, for a report of an unresponsive man in a parked motor vehicle. Today (May 23), the Medical Examiner’s preliminary forensic autopsy report determined the victim to have died of natural causes.
Photographer Harrison Wilde shares this photo with us. He says it was taken at Sheldon Beach and shows an unidentified youngster who is skipping rocks the hard way.
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That’s write. They’re doing it again. A cluster of writers has scheduled a workshop at Camp Hollis on the Lake Ontario’s shore in Oswego Town for June 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will be hosted and facilitated by Mary Slimmer, Jim Farfaglia and June MacArthur, the guest writer. The trio presented a well-received writers’ workshop at the camp last fall which prompted them to conduct another this spring.
Starting today (May 20), National Grid and their contractors will be undertaking an extensive maintenance project on their transmission lines. National Grid will be using helicopters, contractor line crews and associated heavy equipment during the length of this project.
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