Scene Around Town: Halloween Parade Held At Market
Spider-Man was in town Thursday evening at the annual Oswego Farmers’ Market to take part in the children’s Halloween parade. Children in costume, 12 and under, received a free goodie bag of Halloween treats. The market’s official wizard paraded the costumed youngsters around the market and back to the grandstand to receive their goodies.
The Oswego County Health Department held its first seasonal flu clinic Sept. 21. The second was held Wednesday. Additional clinics will be scheduled for Swine Flu (H1N1) vaccination when the vaccine becomes available.
An Oswego County grand jury has cleared a State Trooper who shot to death a man at a traffic stop in Mexico in August.
The first part of September 2009 was relatively mild like it should be; while the last several days were rainy and cold like an early spring month, noted Bill Gregway, local observer for the National Weather Service. The vast majority of the month’s rainfall fell in the last part of the month.
County lawmakers heard an update Tuesday regarding Bion Environmental Technologies proposal. If Bion’s slaughterhouse plan becomes a reality, it would bring more than 70,000 head of beef cattle into the county.
The invasive species looms as a significant threat to the Oswego River and other bodies of water – including Lake Ontario. It could cost the county a significant amount of lost tourism revenues if allowed to spread further.
In a letter to its patients and their families Tuesday, Loretto CEO Michael Sullivan said that the 120-bed Oswego home and its Rosewood Heights nursing home because they were “challenged to maintain financial viability before the economic crisis of 2008 and the outlook for their ability to maintain quality services in the current environment is poor.”