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Report: Oswego Fire Department Ambulance Service Being Investigated

January 8, 2010 Contributor

Channel 3’s Jim Kenyon reports that the State Health Department is investigating a complaint involving the Oswego Fire Department’s ambulance service.

According to Kenyon’s report:

“Sources say that paramedics refused to transport a female patient to the hospital on Wednesday. The woman was forced to call a private ambulance service. When she arrived at the hospital, sources tell us she needed emergency treatment.”

The state Health Department confirmed to Channel 3 that it was investigating a complaint, but would not be more specific.

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Cooper – The ‘Snow Lion’

January 8, 2010 Steve Yablonski

Scene Around Town: Cooper appears to be a bit perturbed that his human is taking his photo instead of picking him up out of the deep snow in Minetto recently. While the Oswego area is languishing a bit behind, the snowfall total for the Fulton Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Minetto region is just shy of 100 inches.

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County Legislature Gets Reorganized For 2010

January 7, 2010 Steve Yablonski

There are some new names as the legislature welcomed five new members today (Jan. 7). The lawmakers also approved an intermunicipal agreement with the town of Scriba and Oswego City School District regarding negotiations with Constellation Energy’s nuclear power plants at Nine Mile Point.

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Nine Mile Two Shuts Down

January 7, 2010 Contributor

The Nine Mile Point nuclear station, with Nine Mile 1 on the left and Nine Mile 2 and its signature cooling tower on the right. Photo Ã‚Â© Constellation Energy Group, Inc. 2008

According to a filing with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the reactor began shutting down because of a water level in the reactor that had fallen to the point where it kicked off an automatic shutdown.

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Group Seeks To Bring Best-Selling Author To Oswego

January 7, 2010 Steve Yablonski

The goal is to not only bring the Oswego community together through Greg Mortenson’s book (Three Cups of Tea), but also raise awareness and encourage a world view that advocates understanding and tolerance.

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Agenda: Nuclear Tax Deal, New Elections Commissioner Before County Legislature

January 7, 2010 Contributor

The first meeting of the new year for the Oswego County Legislature is made up of formalities — routine appointments that must be made each year.Ã‚Â Today, though, there’ll be discussion and perhaps action on a property tax deal involving the Nine Mile Point nuclear plants, and the appointment of a new Democratic Elections Commissioner, to replace Bill Scriber, who took a job at the Port of Oswego.

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Leighton Parents: Don’t Close Our School

January 6, 2010 Steve Yablonski

About 20 parents of Leighton students plead with the school board not to close the school. That is just one option the district is looking at if the Education Center is sold, the board of education said. No decision is going to be made on this for a long time, they said. Much more discussion is likely and public input is encouraged, they added.

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Report: Deadly Richland Fire’s Cause May Never Be Known

January 6, 2010 Contributor

A year ago, fire destroyed a home on County Route 48 in Richland, killing eight of the nine people in the home.Ã‚Â Four were children.

News10Now’s Andy Mattison followed up and found that fire officials cannot determine what caused the fire:

“We can get the fire basically to the area of origin, which would be the wood stove at the south end of the structure. Exactly what happened near the wood stove, we’ll probably never know,” said Oswego County Fire Coordinator John Hinds.

The investigation into the fire is closed, Mattison reports.

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Committee OK’s Fee Hike At Oswego Wastewater Plants

January 5, 2010 Steve Yablonski

The funds will be used to offset the increasing operating cost of the wastewater treatment plants and sewer collection system. The full council will vote on the matter at next week’s meeting.

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Man With Ties To Mexico Makes Life For Soldiers, Civilians Safer

January 5, 2010 Contributor

Army Maj. Ken Spicer is an environmental science officer with the Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine in Landstuhl, Germany. He recently traveled to the Central African nation of Uganda to participate in Exercise Natural Fire 10, which included cooperation with five African militaries. (Photo by Air Force Senior Airman Christopher Griffin)

When the son of a Mexico man stepped onto the orange-red soil of this Central African nation, he could have been walking into a National Geographic special presentation.

Surrounded by Africans living in grass-roofed mud huts that dotted the countryside, 550 American military members would bring modern medical science and medication, sweat equity and supplies to rebuild old, rundown schools, and an open textbook in sharing non-lethal military tactics that Eastern African armies could use to bring civil order during future times of trouble.

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