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Gregory Oakes has announced that he is seeking a second term as Oswego County District Attorney. Oakes, who has served as a prosecutor in the county since 2001, was first elected District Attorney in 2011. Since taking office, District Attorney Oakes has enhanced the prosecution of felony cases while working with the courts to move those cases more efficiently.

The global tobacco epidemic is killing 6 million people every year; but leaders and efforts in Central New York are reducing smoking rates and protecting kids from tobacco marketing. To celebrate these successes, Tobacco Free CNY will be recognizing local champions to celebrate World No Tobacco Day.

Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland: come for the sequence of George Clooney rocketing out of his house in a bathtub, stay to see how Disney works out a little girl robot love conundrum. Let me first say I did not realize Tomorrowland was being marketed as a children’s film. With George Clooney being one of the film’s stars, the other being Britt Robertson, an actor who attracts a slightly older group, I expected an entirely different film and one that certainly would not get children flocking to theaters to see it in droves.

Sunil Ram envisions a stronger, healthier Oswego County, and says open and accountable government is the way to achieve it. Ram, who moved to Oswego when he was six years old, announced his candidacy for the county legislature’s 20th District, representing much of the town of Oswego.

In regards to the road closure issued by the Oswego Codes Division of the Oswego City Fire Department on May 27, East Second Street has been re-opened for traffic between East Bridge Street and Oneida Street. Due to the continued concerns with the decorative façade of the Oswego Public Library, there are barriers indicating a lane shift.

A burden that police officers carry with them every day is whether they will be called on to do their duty and use deadly physical force against another human being. Many of them go their entire careers without having to make that life-changing decision. On Friday, May 8, 2015, Deputy Mark Walton was faced with that difficult decision when a despondent subject pointed a loaded shotgun at him.

The City of Oswego water outage due to a power failure at the water treatment plant has been corrected as of 3:30 p.m.