Mayor Billy Barlow announced today (April 29) that the new city of Oswego website went live and is up and running. The website focuses on providing a more business friendly destination, promoting Oswego’s natural resources and highlighting Oswego’s history in a friendly and easy to navigate page layout.
The city of Oswego Department of Planning and Zoning will host a public workshop to obtain input from city residents, business owners, and the greater community related to the preparation of the Route 104 Streetscape Revitalization Project.
Oswego Fire Department personnel responded to 158 W. Seneca St. at 10:39 a.m. today (April 29) to a reported vehicle
fire in close proximity to structures. According to witnesses on the scene, a neighbor noticed smoke coming from the garage, raised the door, and found the vehicle with smoke coming from under the hood.
Members of the Child Advocacy Center’s Multi-Disciplinary Team were recently recognized at the agency’s annual meeting for their extraordinary investigative efforts. Over the past year the CAC served 456 children, provided 3,111 therapy sessions, and forensically investigated more than 140 cases.
At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council authorized a public hearing regarding proposed Local Law No. 3 of the Year 2016 – A Local Law Amending Chapter 176, Pawnbrokers, of the Code of the City of Oswego. The public hearing will be held at 7:10 p.m. May 9 in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 13 W. Oneida St.
UPDATE: Alicia Seelbach turned herself in this morning (April 29) to the Utica Police Department.
State Police said Thursday night the children have been found. The search continues for the two suspects.
The New York State Police and Chief Ronald J. Petrie of the village of Frankfort Police Department (Herkimer County) is asking for the public’s assistance with locating a mother and her two children.
On April 27, at approximately 3 a.m., State Police stopped a vehicle on State Route 3 in the town of Hannibal for a traffic violation. The operator, Joshua M. Bolster, 20, of Hannibal, was found to be intoxicated, according to the police report.
On March 28, at approximately 4:29 p.m., State Police responded to WalMart on State Route 3 in the town of Granby for a larceny complaint. State Police interviewed asset protection members who advised that Nichole D. Burr, 20, of Fulton, had entered the store the previous evening and left with multiple electronic devices and cables without rendering payment, police said.
Sixth ward councilman, Larry Macner announced the scheduling of a public hearing to be held in regards to a proposed parking change on North Second Street. The change would affect the section of North Second Street from Oneida Street to Seneca Street where cars are currently able to park on the east side of the road with no time restrictions. Macner has proposed the change to a two-hour parking time limit.
On Monday, State Police responded to 399 State Route 11 apartment 2, in Central Square, regarding a possible meth lab. Oswego County Probation Department members requested the assistance from the NYSP Community Narcotics Enforcement Team and the Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team after a “one pot” methamphetamine lab was located inside the apartment, police said.
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