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Representatives from a number of Oswego County’s human services agencies will host an Oswego County Youth Program Forum on November 15 at the SUNY Oswego Phoenix Extension Site. Sign-in begins at 8:30 a.m. with the program starting promptly at 9 a.m.

At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council approved Local Law No. 3 of 2013. It authorizes a property tax levy in excess of the limit established in General Municipal Law §3-c. It doesn’t mean that the city will impose a tax greater than the cap, the mayor noted recently. The taxpayers would be protected from a technicality in the law that could penalize the city.

The Oswego City School District Board of Education is expected to officially pass a resolution hiring Benjamin Halsey as the new superintendent of schools. The meeting will be held at the Education Center second floor curriculum room begining at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Oswego High School Marching Bucs completed their first year competing in Small Schools1 classification with a fourth place season-ending performance at the Syracuse University Carrier Dome. Oswego received a score of 85.15 at the New York State Field Band Conference Championship event. Just two weeks ago the band captured the Freedom Cup in Nazareth, Pa., and last week earned first place in their class at Central Square.

On October 29, Women’s Network for Entrepreneurial Training and SUNY Oswego’s Office of Business and Community Relations will gather women from across the state for Connections, a day-long conference to be held in Fulton from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The theme is “Connect – Pursue – Advance” and will feature dynamic speakers, and a women’s marketplace.

Recently, Oswego residents joined forces to bike, walk, and run the Team Levine Event supporting Cooper Levine, an 18-year-old freshman at Ithaca College recently diagnosed with ALL, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. A donation to the family was the fee to register. Held at Oswego’s Breitbeck Park and hosted by Team Levine Committee Standing United For Cooper, bikers rode the Oswego Tri-Sprint 10-mile course through Oswego State University’s campus and along the beautiful Lake Ontario shoreline.

Coursework in Australia and Oswego this spring linked graduate students in English literature, human-computer interaction and creative writing. Their studies pulled in topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, philosophy, graphic design and history. And, in a case of campus-community cooperation, their final project teamed actors from Oswego Players with robot actors.

With one week left, Oswego County is only 351 responses short of the goal for the online survey created by Engage CNY. The Engage CNY survey is the first stage in a new initiative, led by CNY Arts to make Central New York a better place to live, work, play, and visit. The survey was distributed to residents and visitors in the counties of Oswego, Onondaga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida and Herkimer.