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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.

Deputies have charged a Fulton man with crimes against a child. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 12:22 p.m., Douglas J. Loomis Sr., 37, of 92 ½ Lyons St., Fulton, was arrested in the Oswego County Jail for first degree course of sexual conduct against a child and first degree sodomy, both class B felonies.

Oswego mayoral candidate running on the democratic ticket, Amy Tresidder met with a group of local business owners Wednesday at the second participant in the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce event, ‘Meet the Candidates.’

Ana Alcasid has been selected to be a part of the Army All-American Marching Band. She will perform next year during halftime of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio. Oswego has been represented by at least one band member every year since the selection process began. Alcasid is the 14th OHS student in nine years to earn the honor of being in the U.S. Army All-American Marching Band.

Summer 2015 goes into the record books just a tad cooler and a bit wetter, according to Bill Gregway, local observer for the National Weather Service. The average temperature for this summer was 67.7 degrees. That is just 0.8-degree below average.