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.
On Thursday at 8:45 p.m., members of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single motor vehicle accident on County Route 12 in the town of Hastings. 46-year-old Anthony J Gorgoni of Liverpool, died as a result of his injuries. The accident is under investigation.
Members of the Transfer Station Advisory Committee got some of their questions answered Thursday night. And, they came up with a few new ones as well. Only 15 percent of the Oswego County households us the transfer stations, according to Legislature Chairman Kevin Gardner. That means 85 percent of county residents are subsidizing a service they do not use, he added.
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.
After a lengthy investigation conducted by the Oswego County Drug Task Force and the city of Fulton Police Department, Jason Wayne Knopp (a/k/a John Slaughta), was arrested on Monday (June 23), on a sealed indictment warrant issued by Oswego County Court. The indictment charges Knopp with three counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a Class B Felony.
The New York State Homes and Community Renewal Office of Community Renewal has announced that the city of Oswego has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the Affordable Housing Corporation.
The city will receive the maximum amount available to a small city to rehabilitate 18 units of existing housing in Oswego.
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