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Oswego Daily News

Minetto Creates Climate Action Plan

In an effort to reduce operating costs, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, representatives from the town of Minetto have created a draft Climate Action Plan. The plan provides specific recommendations for energy saving strategies in areas such as transportation, buildings and facilities, and solid waste disposal.

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Oswego Daily News

Alleycat Sets The Bar To Combat Underage Drinking

Another college weekend is down in the books and Alleycat of Oswego has no plans of stopping the extra measures they’ve implemented to ensure the law on underage drinking is upheld.
Alleycat, a downtown Oswego bar and state registered night club located at 23 W. Bridge Street, has enacted multiple procedures to make certain that underage drinking is curbed to the fullest extent possible within the establishment.

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Pictured is an early 18th century French pistol lock with its lead and flint, found intact during archeological excavations at Fort Ontario in 1984. A weapon of the same era was used when Lt. Basil Dunbar was shot through the lungs with a pistol ball and died on Oct. 12, 1759. In 1902 Dunbar’s remains and his headstone were found under 12 feet of earth within the fort’s earthworks when they were scraped away to level the area of officers’ row in 1903-05.
Oswego Daily News

Fort Ontario Ghost Tours and Reveal Set for Oct. 16 and 17

The Friends of Fort Ontario and Central New York Ghost Hunters will present the annual Ghost Tours and Reveal event at Fort Ontario State Historic Site Friday and Saturday evenings, Oct. 16 and 17. “Fort Ontario is purported to be one of the most haunted locations in the United States, and was the subject of an episode of the SYFY Channel’s Ghost Hunters show in 2012,” said Fort Supervisor Paul Lear.

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Oswego's lighthouse is being renovated by volunteers.
Oswego Daily News

Volunteers Work To Restore, Preserve Oswego’s Lighthouse

On various days this summer, and into this month, Ted Panayotoff, of the Oswego Lighthouse Committee, leads a group on the approximately 1.5-mile jaunt by boat from the Maritime Museum out to Oswego’s iconic West Pierhead Lighthouse. Ultimately, the plan is to not only save the landmark, but open it up to visitors. They began interior restorations, using volunteers, in 2013.

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Author Mary Kimball at the 2014 event.
Fulton Daily News

Third Memoir Project Completed by Fulton Library

The Fulton Public Library has announced the presentation date of its 2015 Memoir Project, a writing program designed to preserve memories of significant events in Fulton history. The presentation will take place September 23 at 6:30 p.m. and will be held in the Cayuga Community College’s Fulton Campus Community Events Center.

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Oswego Daily News

Entergy: Decision To Close FitzPatrick Could Come By December

Entergy officials said they will decide by the end of the year whether to close the James FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Scriba. The company’s CEO reportedly told stockholders Entergy may decide not perform the 2016 refueling outage at the plant; closing down FitzPatrick would be the alternative.

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Oswego Daily News

9/11 Remembrance Weekend in Oswego Honors Public Safety Officers

Christopher Jones, owner of Cre8 Studios and Friends of Oswego, puts on 9/11 Remembrance Day at Breitbeck Park in Oswego to commemorate the lives taken and the emergency responders that fearlessly answered their call to service on this tragic day in history. This weekend offers multiple events including a chicken barbeque, a Blue Mass Ceremony and a Heroes Challenge that you won’t want to miss!

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