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Marching Bucs Pageant of Champions Brings Top Bands to Oswego on Saturday
The color and excitement of high school marching band competition will be on display Saturday in Oswego. The annual Oswego “Pageant of Champions” usually brings thousands of marching band fanatics to town and when the first band steps off the line at 6 p.m. a full house is expected to be involved in every move and note.
Expanded Quality of Life Patrols Remain Active
On September 14 and 15, the Oswego City Police Department deployed additional personnel to address quality of life concerns in residential neighborhoods.
This detail consisted of uniformed and plain clothes personnel. As a result of this effort, several arrests were made:
Weather Notebook For September 17, 2012
Get out and enjoy today. Temperatures and rain start to fall Tuesday.
12-Year-Old Vows: I Will Be Face, Voice of Oswego County’s Homeless
At this month’s Oswego County Legislature meeting, Emily Bradshaw spoke out on what she describes as ‘a nearly invisible’ problem – homelessness. Her quest is to have a shelter built to help those in need. In the meantime, she is collecting personal care items to make up personal care bags to hand out to the homeless at the DSS or OCO offices and in schools.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant Achieves Record Performance
Early this morning (Sept. 16), control room operators removed Entergy’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from service to begin its 20th refueling and maintenance outage after generating electricity safely for 700 consecutive days. This marks the second consecutive time FitzPatrick has operated “breaker-to-breaker” (operating from one refueling outage to the next without needing to take the plant offline in between).
Cover Of Heidi Allen Book – A Map To Hope
On April 3, 1994, Heidi Allen went missing from the convenience store at the intersection of Route 104 and 104B in New Haven. Authorities say she was kidnapped by a couple of local brothers and is presumed dead. Lisa Buske said she revealed the cover as a birthday gift to her sister, “and what better place than here at the remembrance garden.”
More Evidence of West Nile Virus Found Before Aerial Spraying
The New York State Department of Health has notified the Oswego County Health Department that evidence of the West Nile virus (WNV) was found in two different mosquito pools collected from the Toad Harbor Swamp area.
Cayuga CC Dedicates Its New Fulton Campus At River Glen
Cayuga Community College hosted a dedication and ribbon cutting Friday to celebrate the completion of construction at its new Fulton Campus at River Glen. Nearly a dozen speakers praised the multi-million dollar project, thanked those who made it possible and extolled its benefits for the local economy and future generations of students.
Fulton man arrested on rape charges
On August 31, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children contacted the New York State Police Internet Crimes Against Children’s Task Force regarding a possible on-line enticement case that occurred in the Oswego County area. A joint investigation by the NYSP Computer Crime Unit and members of the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Pulaski identified a 15-year-old victim.