The first Lake Ontario Central New York Lighthouse Challenge will take place this year on June 21 and 22. The challenge is to visit six unique New York lighthouses within two days. The official challenge route starts with Oswego’s West Pierhead Lighthouse and then moves East and West from the Thousand Islands to Rochester.
A downtown Oswego businesswoman is looking to rev up business this summer. At Monday’s meeting of the Physical Services Committee, Anne Backer, owner of Taste The World Specialty Coffee in the Canal Commons, requested approval to close West First Street between Bridge and Oneida streets on Sunday afternoons from June 15 to August 31. She is planning an event, Mugs and Motors, to help bring more people downtown on Sundays.
Oswego Mayor Tom Gillen recently announced that the city of Oswego Water Treatment Plant was starting construction on upgrades to the treatment facility. The work reduces the production capacity of the plant by 25% and will be continuing until the end of June. It is requested that all users of city of Oswego water curtail the use of water as much as possible during this construction period.
One person was arrested recently by the Oswego County Drug Task Force after a joint investigation conducted by members of the task Ffrce and the City of Fulton Police Department. A search warrant was conducted on May 20 and reportedly resulted in the recovery of 28 bags of heroin in glassine envelopes and/or plastic packaging and a morphine tablet.
A search warrant was conducted on May 29 and resulted in the recovery of 84 bags of heroin, Fentanyl Patches, marihuana, unlawfully possessed prescription pills and crack cocaine along with digital scales and packaging material, according to police.
Today’s News In The Raider: Track athletes finish their season is fine style, and a look at social media in today’s edition of RaiderNet Daily. Please note: that due to Regents testing and grading, RaiderNet Daily will not return until Friday, June 6.
The Springboard Mural Project has launched another season of bringing some color to Oswego’s Riverwalk West. In 2009, it was originally a city sponsored community development plan to address graffiti issues. Dozens of young artists are collaborating on around 50 new murals to be painted along the walkway.
Granby Elementary School students put away their history books for a firsthand account of life during World War II. Holocaust survivor and author Marion Blumenthal Lazan spoke to fifth and sixth grade students at the school about life as a Jewish person in Nazi Germany.
In recognition of their efforts to encourage students to succeed, 65 educators from Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties were awarded State Senator Patty Ritchie’s Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence at a special ceremony held Friday evening at Pulaski’s historic Kallet Theater.
The finalists visiting Oswego hail from near — high schools in Oswego and Onondaga counties and 29 states in all — and far — Albania and Azerbaijan, Turkey and Tanzania, and 46 other countries. Judges advanced a most-ever 328 projects for the finals, each submitted by up to two students, among a record-shattering 842 entries.
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