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With extreme cold weather forecast for Oswego County and Central New York over the next few days, Oswego County Public Health Director Jiancheng Huang is advising people to take extra precautions to protect themselves from frostbite, hypothermia and other health conditions that are aggravated by cold weather.

Effective immediately, Mayor Thomas W. Gillen has issued a Travel Advisory in the City of Oswego due to heavy snow accumulations and white?out conditions in our immediate area. This Travel Advisory will remain in effect until further notice.

The NYS Department of Transportation is advising motorists in northern Onondaga and southern Oswego counties of upcoming bridge work that may affect their travel. Beginning on February 16, Oswego County Route 12 will be closed to through traffic as it passes under NY 481, just outside the village of Phoenix, in the town of Schroeppel. This closure is needed to repair the southbound Route 481 bridge, which was hit by a truck on January 5.

Every summer for two weeks, hundreds of youth in grades 2 through 10 come to the SUNY Oswego campus to explore topics ranging from music, art and dance to science, cooking and history during the Sheldon Institute. Now, these academic and cultural programs will be more accessible to lower-income families for many years to come, thanks to an endowed scholarship fund established by the Tarandi Foundation.

At Monday night’s meeting, the Common Council approved Local Law No. 2 of the Year 2015 – a local law regarding the denial or revocation of permits. The new law, in part, states that no such permit (for use of city services/space) shall be granted to or renewed for an applicant who is violation of any city of Oswego code, ordinance or local law; or who owes property taxes, water or sewer fees, special assessments, fines for violation of city ordinances or any other fees to the city of Oswego.

Christopher Church and Cody Hogan, residents of the town of Oswego in the 130th Assembly District, are among the 226 new members of the State Police. Gov. Andrew Cuomo congratulated them at the 202nd session graduation ceremony from the Basic School of the New York State Police Academy in Albany. The new troopers will report for field duty on February 12. For the following 10 weeks, the new troopers will be evaluated under a field-training program supervised by senior Field Training Officers.