Scheduled for October 3 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and October 4 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the CNY Great Pumpkin Festival will fill Washington Square Park (East Park) with crafters, fresh from the farm produce, food vendors, music, great food, games, and rides for children of all ages.
CiTi, the Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation held an open house recently for families of students and members of the community to see the results of the buildings remodel and to boast the many services they offer. Located at the Mexico campus, CiTi (formerly known as Oswego BOCES) serves over 1,000 students every day from nine school districts in the county.
Launched on www.savefitzpatrick.com by Senator Patty Ritchie, Assemblyman Will Barclay, Assemblyman Bob Oaks and Oswego County Legislature Chair Kevin Gardner, the petition comes after FitzPatrick’s parent company, Entergy Corp., announced it was considering closing the facility.
On Friday, September 25, at approximately 5:30 a.m., investigators with the Oswego County Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the New York State Police Special Operations Response Team and Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team, executed a methamphetamine related search warrant at 521 S. Albion Road in the town of Albion.
Following a lengthy investigation, Fulton Police have filed charges against several individuals relative to a July 31 hit and run motor vehicle accident that occurred at outside Shotz Bar at 320 W. First St in Fulton.
Bill Cahill and the entire sixth grade of Volney Elementary took to the field at their school to launch the rockets the students had so excitedly engineered over the past two weeks. The sixth grade class along with their family stood outside as two students at a time approached the table to prepare their rockets for launch. Then, they all joined together in a countdown from five to launch their rockets into the sky and try to catch them on the way back down.
Today’s News: We’ve got previews of tomorrow’s soccer and football games between Fulton and Oswego along with new movies and more in today’s edition of RaiderNet Daily.
The Oswego County Health Department advises that, although the days are becoming shorter and the temperatures are beginning to dip, it is important to remember that mosquito-borne illnesses such as Eastern Equine Encephalitis and West Nile Virus will continue to be a threat until the first hard frost of the season.
At its meeting this week, the Physical Services Committee approved use of public space at Fort Ontario. The sites, however, had to make room for history. There is currently a community effort to elevate the Fort Ontario area to a National Historic Landmark. The NYS Historic Preservation Office strongly recommended that any use of public space be located off of the parade ground. “The new district encompasses nearly all of the old 75 acre Fort Ontario Military Reservation dating back to 1755,” Fort Supervisor Paul Lear told Oswego County Today.
Recently, the local Fulton/Oswego BIB chapter recognized the National Blessings in a Backpack Day by filling enough bags of food to feed the amount of selected children at one elementary school. Blessings in a Backpack, or BIB, is a national program that feeds 76,000 children in more than 800 schools including elementary schools in both Fulton and Oswego.
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