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More Mosquitoes Test Positive For EEE – County Plans Aerial Spraying

July 31, 2009 Contributor

The Oswego County Health Department has been notified that four more pools of mosquitoes, collected from the Toad Harbor/Big Bay Swamp area on the north shore of Oneida Lake, have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis. Public Health Director Dr. Dennis Norfleet said the virus has spread from a species of mosquito that feeds on birds to a species that bites humans, As a result, Oswego County is preparing to conduct aerial spraying of the Toad Harbor and Big Bay swamps by the middle of or late next week.

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McHugh Sails Through Confirmation Hearing; A Key Conservative Jumps Into The Race To Replace Him

July 31, 2009 Contributor

Rep. John McHugh easily passed his first test on the road to becoming Secretary of the Army.

Even a Senator who criticized McHugh said he strongly supported the North Country Congressman for the job.

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Girl Scout Organizes Motorcycle Run For Food Bank Of CNY

July 30, 2009 Steve Yablonski

Allison Carmody, of Oswego Girl Scout Troop 41, is working on earning the Girl Scout Gold Award. For her project, Allison has organized a motorcycle run – “Speed to Feed” – which will take place this Saturday (August 1), according to her mother, Stephanie Carmody.

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Changes Announced At OHS

July 30, 2009 Steve Yablonski

Superintendent introduces interim principal for the summer and fall. A new principal is expected to be in place by mid-October. The house system has been revamped, and students will be greeted by some new policies such as one prohibiting the use of electronic devices.

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Legislators Quarrel Over Law Firm Designation

July 29, 2009 Steve Yablonski

One claims the county is wasting taxpayers’ money. Others challenge him to show proof. Of the two firms that bid for the work, the county selected the one that was less expensive, according to the DSS commissioner.

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Health Committee Updated On DSS Plan

July 29, 2009 Steve Yablonski

The county’s Health and Human Services Committee heard an update regarding improvements at the Department of Social Services. DSS Commissioner Fran Lanigan on Wednesday provided the committee information as to what she is doing to improve the department’s performance in the wake of several reports following the death last August of 11-year-old Erin Maxwell in Palermo.

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Correction: Aubertine’s Member Items Were $400,000 Larger

July 29, 2009 Contributor

In our story yesterday, “Oswego County’s Cut Of The Pork Barrel: $600,000“, we missed a large line item for the county.

State Senator Darrel Aubertine secured $100,000 for the Michaud Nursing Home in Fulton to help the nursing home buy and install a kitchen to cook for the nursing home’s residents. The kitchen at Lee Memorial Hospital closed when the hospital closed.

The money was not in a line item under Aubertine’s name, but was part of a package of pork barrel items belonging to the Upstate Senate Delegation. Various coalitions of legislators received pork barrel funds to dole out, including the upstate Senators, a coalition of suburban Senators, separate delegations from Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, a conference of black Senators and one of Latin Senators.

Aubertine’s district received $400,000 in that package, bringing his direct total to $1.4 million, and the amount for Oswego County, with Assembly members’ pork items added in, to $700,000.Ã‚Â Aubertine would, therefore, not have the lowest member item amount among majority Democrats.

The Senator’s spokesman, Drew Mangione, led us to this better information and we thank him and make this correction.

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Democrats Set Date To Pick Congressional Candidate

July 29, 2009 Contributor

Democrats won’t wait much longer to pick a candidate for Congress.

In a statement, the chairs of the party in the 11 counties that make up the 23rd Congressional District said that they will meet with each candidate on August 10 in Blue Mountain Lake and choose a candidate that night.

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County Takes Wait & See Approach To Slaughterhouse Proposal

July 28, 2009 Steve Yablonski

County lawmakers have decided to seek more information from Bion Environmental Technologies before making any decisions regarding the companies plan to start a business somewhere in the county. If Bion’s slaughterhouse plan becomes a reality, it would bring more than 70,000 head of beef cattle into the county.

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Another Look At The Sights Of Harborfest 2009

July 27, 2009 Steve Yablonski

A look back at Harborfest 2009

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