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After 13 years of school, it took about 28 minutes Saturday to turn the OHS Class of 2014 into freshly minted graduates. At 10:47 a.m., diplomas were received by the first batch of students. The clock above center ice clicked to 11:11 a.m. as Meggie Zhang accepted the final diploma.

For its traditional fourth Friday in June Strawberry Festival celebration, Phoenix residents flocked to the village’s downtown and Henley Park to enjoy the festivities and the fireworks finale.

On Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m., historically uniformed, dressed and accoutered volunteers will gather at Fort Ontario State Historic Site to re-create the July 5 to 6, 1759 French attack on Oswego. Once again the French, under the Chevalier de la Corne, will achieve surprise when their scouts overrun a British woodcutting party, but lose momentum when their Sulpican Priest Abbe Piquet stops the main force of attackers to pray for victory, thus providing the panicked defenders time to roll flour and pork barrels into a defensive line.

You’ve heard of United Way’s Annual Campaign. You may have donated to United Way through your workplace. You may have participated in the United Way Golf Tournament or enjoyed at its annual Harborfest Breakfast. But have you ever wondered just where those donations go and how they impact your community? United Way recently completed its community investment process and is providing funding to 27 programs administered through 21 human services agencies.

The British Flag was lowered and the American Flag was raised over historic Fort Ontario as a large audience, mostly elementary students, learned about the history of the flag and the fort, too.

July 1, 2014, marks the 30-year anniversary of the date Nancy-Jo Scamurra, a 14-year-old from Amherst, NY, went missing from her home. Her body was found in Lake Ontario in 1984; it wasn’t identified until 2011. Despite the positive identification and continued investigation, the mystery surrounding Ms. Scamurra’s disappearance, murder, dismemberment, and decapitation, remains unsolved.