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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.

ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Steve Levy and former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Donna Goldsmith will headline an accomplished panel of sports media and business professionals at 3 p.m. Nov. 6, in Waterman Theatre for SUNY Oswego’s ninth annual Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit.

The $200 million investment adds 240,000 tons of automotive aluminum sheet capacity in North America. The expansion also created more than 100 local jobs.

Brenda Irving of Oswego was recognized at the National MS Society Upstate New York Chapter’s annual meeting on October 17. The event was held at the Crowne Plaza in Syracuse and highlighted several individuals who have worked towards creating a world free of multiple sclerosis.