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. 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.
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.
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.
The Oswego Salvation Army will have plenty of horsepower to kick its “I Believe Capital Campaign” into high gear. The Salvation Army and American Bikers Aim Toward Education (ABATE) motorcycle club are planning a fund-raiser for Aug. 16.
The Oswego City Police Department wishes to announce the following overview of the events that took place during Harborfest 2009 (July 23, 5 p.m. to July 26, 11 p.m.) as compared to the same time period for Harborfest 2007 and 2008.
The race to become the area’s Congressman may geet started sooner than expected.
The U.S. Senate’s Armed Services Committee has set this Thursday as the date for a confirmation hearing for John McHugh to become President Obama’s Secretary of the Army. McHugh is a member of Congress serving the 23rd Congressional District. Oswego County is one of the 11 counties in the sprawling district, which is larger than some states.
Tom Van Schaack describes his first Harborfest as a positive thing. “My first Harborfest was nothing but positive,” the new executive director said Sunday afternoon. Rain showers hampered some of the activities. However, most everybody took the rain in stride and laughed it off. “I need a bar of soap so I can take a bath,” quipped Joe Gunther during Sunday afternoon’s downpour.
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