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On February 10 at approximately 4:50 p.m. on Maple Avenue, just west of County Route 6 in the town of Volney, the Oswego County Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Fulton City Police Department, executed a search warrant on a pickup truck being operated by Johnathan A. Baldwin. Baldwin, 30, of 52 E. Fourth St., Upper Apartment, Oswego, was the target of a Drug Task Force investigation regarding the possession and sales of heroin in and around the city of Fulton.

At about 3:05 p.m. today (Feb. 17), members of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office responded to a two-vehicle motor vehicle accident that occurred on County Route 53 in the town of Scriba that ended with one fatality. Identification of the deceased is pending family notifications. The cause of the accident remains under investigation.

All of us need clean water to drink. If your family gets drinking water from a private well, do you know if the water is safe? What health risks do you and your family face? Where can you go for help or advice? “Contaminated water can be a threat to your health. If your drinking water comes from a household well, you alone are responsible for assuring that it is safe,” said Jiancheng Huang, Oswego County Public Health Director.

The grassroots group Save Oswego’s Historic Sites returned to the council chambers recently to continue the fight to save the former Cahill building. “Now that the property is again available for bids from potential developers, we reiterate our position to the mayor and council to move with caution on this property,” said Mercedes Niess, the group’s spokesperson.

Oswego robotics team won the Northern NY VEX Skyrise State Championship for the second year in a row and now qualifies for the world championship competition. Freezing Code (#9282) is a team of seven local youth (from grades 9-11), which is in its second year of building and programming robots. The team will now have the opportunity to compete against VEX robotics teams from all around the world.

A new analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education shows several campuses in the State University of New York system have some of the nation’s highest rates of on-campus drug arrests. According to the data, SUNY Oswego is ranked number 2; something college officials say isn’t completely accurate.

SUNY Oswego University Police today (Feb. 13) arrested Abhay Pant, 18, of Hart Hall on campus and of New Delhi, India, on a charge of first-degree rape, a class B felony. He is accused of entering a residence hall room and sexually assaulting the resident in the early morning hours today.