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UPDATE 5:30 PM:  Senator Charles Schumer has just informed the mayor’s office that the Port of Oswego Authority has been awarded a $1.5 million grant that will fund the construction of a significant new rail link at the Port. Senator Schumer was committed to working with the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, to position the Oswego project for a TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant.

The Oswego City School District Board of Education will once again have seven active members. On September 10 Michael McLaughlin will take the oath of office to serve for the remainder of the 2013-14 school year as a member of the board of education. McLaughlin will be sworn in at the committee and regular meeting of the board at the Oswego High School Anthony J. Murabito Media Center.

Penfield Library at SUNY Oswego is extending borrowing privileges to Oswego County K-12 educators and high school students. Complimentary library cards will give them access to college-level research resources, services and collections. All county educators are welcome to apply for a complimentary library card by visiting the library’s front desk.

With the upcoming Labor Day weekend, Oswego Police will once again have added patrols as part of the “Expanded Quality of Life Initiative.” They will also be out in force as part of the annual nationwide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown on drunk driving.

The college will receive $139,500 over two years to pilot the program at Oswego Middle School, part of a $2.95 million grant the National Science Foundation awarded to the SUNY system, the New York Academy of Sciences and SUNY Empire State College to bring to scale a mentoring program that has been successful downstate.

Dylan F. Corten, 17, of 78 Great Oak Lane in Pleasantville was arrested on a felony drug charge Wednesday evening at his Oneida Hall residence at SUNY Oswego. University Police accused him of selling Ritalin, a prescription drug, to a plainclothes officer.

There may be a few boxes left to unpack here and there. But the BUC Junior-Senior High School is ready to welcome nearly six dozen students in September. On Wednesday, many of the students and their parents toured the classrooms located in the lower level of the Education Center. The school is based on the three founding principles of creating rigor in instruction, relevance to real world learning, and crafting relationships to the community.