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Amanda’s Law Starts Feb. 22
Amanda’s Law is named after Amanda Hansen. The 16-year-old West Seneca, NY, girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning on Jan. 17, 2009, while at a sleepover at a friend’s home.
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Oswego School Board Continues Budget Debate
At Tuesday’s budget workshop, the Oswego School Board told the administrators what kind of budget they’d like to see for the next school year. Though they didn’t exactly agree on how to get there, board members said there’s no room for a tax increase.
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Council Urges Oswegonians To Stand Up And Be Counted
Every year, the federal government distributes more than $400 billion based on census data, according to Tory DeCaire, chair of the city’s 2010 Complete Census Count Committee. A lack of participation can result in the community receiving less federal funding and less access to important services and resources than it might otherwise have received.
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Oswego School Board Budget Workshop Set
On Tuesday, at 5:30 p.m., the Oswego City School District Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools Bill Crist and the Central Office administration will meet for a special budget workshop.
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Port City Seeks Firm To Analyze Landfill Site
At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council will consider a request to hire a professional soil testing firm to perform a stability analysis of the slopes at the Legends’ Softball Complex landfill site. After a tour of the site last fall, DEC officials alerted the city to three violations that are to be corrected by Feb. 1. One has been fixed; it is hoped the stability anaysis will satisfy the remaining two.
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Unemployment Above 10% Again In County
For the fifth time in 2009, the county’s unemployment rate crossed 10%.
Figures released by the state Labor Department Thursday show that Oswego County’s jobless rate soared to 10.6% in December, up 1.3 percentage points from the month before.
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Do This This Weekend: The County Is At The Sports Show
Our friends at Oswego County Tourism will be out and about this weekend, drumming up business (and sales tax dollars) for the county. They’ll be at the Great Northeastern Sports Show at the State Fairgrounds.
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SUNY Oswego Students Plan ‘Give Back’ Event
The event will be a nice community picnic, organizers said. It will be held in Breitbeck Park with free picnic baskets of food for the first 50 families. Food at a discounted rate will be available for all other attendees to purchase. There will be plenty of activities and recycling education as well.
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Oswego Council Committee Paves Way For Energy-Savings
The committee approved seeking a grant to install solar panels at the Crisafulli Ice Rink to cut the operatioanl costs. And, they sent other potential money-saving resolutions to the full council for consideration as well.
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State Sues To Shut Down Fundraiser That Worked For Corrections Union At Sheriff’s Department
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Wednesday announced his office has filed lawsuits to try to shut down four fundraising companies, including the one used by a local union, Stage Door Music Productions.
Stage Door, which has had an office in Fulton, has raised more than half a million dollars using the name of the union.