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Oswego School Board Tackles Busy Agenda

June 20, 2013 Contributor

Board members unanimously agreed to a contract with the Association of Administrative Personnel. The contract will expire on June 30, 2016 and provides for a 2% annual raise in salary. The board faced a full agenda during its final 2012-013 regular meeting. Under the “Board of Education” portion the canvass for the May budget vote and elections was approved and the board accepted the meeting schedule for 2013-2014. The “Instruction” area of the agenda passed unanimously. Approval was given for the continuation of the First Robotics Club, Sailing Club and Weight Lifting Club at the Oswego High School.

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Weather Notebook For June 20, 2013

June 20, 2013 Steve Yablonski

A very nice day is in store for us today. Mostly sunny with highs in the 70s.

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Mock radiological exercise puts ‘all the responders through their paces’

June 20, 2013 Janel Sullivan

On Wednesday, hundreds of people all over Oswego County participated in the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station Unit 2 emergency preparedness exercise. The event involved players from Oswego County, Onondaga County, the State of New York, and the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, operated by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group.

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It was “A Very Nice” Average Spring

June 19, 2013 Steve Yablonski

Summer arrives at 1:04 a.m. on Friday. It leaves behind a rather average spring. The average temperature was nearly 2 degrees warmer than average. While the area has been stymied recently by heavy rainfall, for the spring the total was 2.22 inches below average.

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Lanigan student rallies his school to help a family in need

June 19, 2013 Submitted article

Lanigan Elementary School fourth grade student Noah Horning watched as seven fire departments worked to save his neighbor’s home earlier this year. The family escaped the fire safely, but lost everything. Noah knew there was something he could do to help the family and he knew just who could help him – the students and staff at his school.

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Local Agencies Working to Address Homelessness

June 19, 2013 Submitted article

A one-day count of homeless individuals in Oswego County, the Point in Time survey, mandated by the federal department of Housing and Urban Development, is a concise effort area human service agencies that serves to raise the awareness of homelessness and helps to compile an approximate number of those who are homeless, or are housing vulnerable, in Oswego County.

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HUD Awards More Than $2 Million In Housing Counseling Grants

June 19, 2013 Steve Yablonski

Two agencies in Oswego County will share in the funding. The City of Fulton Community Development Agency is in line to receive $16,690. And, the Oswego Housing Development Council, in Parish, will receive $16,321. Both provide housing assistance.

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Weather Notebook For June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013 Steve Yablonski

It will be mostly sunny and pleasant today – and drier. The high will be around 70.

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Fulton Common Council Unanimously Approves Zoning Change

June 19, 2013 Janel Sullivan

The change will allow houses in the M-1 manufacturing zone that have been vacant for more than one year to once again be used as residential property. Prior to the approval of the resolution, those homes would have lost their residential status. Proponents say this will hopefully entice more people buy homes in Fulton.

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Gary Mix Chosen as Oswego Interim Superintendent of Schools

June 18, 2013 Submitted article

Gary Mix has been appointed as the Oswego City School District Interim Superintendent of Schools. On Tuesday night, the Oswego City School District Board of Education unanimously approved the appointment. Mix will commence his duties in the Oswego City School District on Tuesday, July 2. The board will pay Mix $2,400 per week during the months of July and August and $3,000 per week during the months of September through December.

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