According to authorities in Providence, R.I., a Fulton man is somehow involved in an assault that left a college basketball player hospitalized in critical condition. Around 2:23 a.m. on May 12, Joseph Sharkey, a Brown University basketball player was punched in the head, leaving him seriously injured. Sharkey fractured his skull on the concrete and was taken to a Rhode Island hospital. A Connecticut man was charged with the assault. Dillon James “DJ” Ingham of Fulton was charged with one count of disorderly conduct related to the incident.
Kind of like a broken record – warm and humid overnight. Low about 65. Warm and humid on Wednesday. High near 80 again.
Councilors say they’d like to implement a bed tax of up to five percent. The revenue that it would generate will offset some of the recently lost funds in other areas. Proponents point out that it is not a tax on residents; rather it will be paid by visitors to the Port City.
During a special meeting of the Cayuga Community College Board of Trustees, the board issued a statement in support of college president Daniel P. Larson and the administration. The board also issued a statement that said it was unable to reach an agreement with the Faculty Association to help address the financial situation facing the college.
Continued very warm and humid on Tuesday. High in the 80s with a thunderstorm possible.
Oswego’s bookmobile operates differently from traditional bookmobiles. It delivers free books that don’t have to be returned. The bookmobile also delivers encouragement, modeled reading and activities to complement reading. Vandalism nearly thwarted the Bookmobile’s 2013 before it started.
For Cayuga Community College graduate and Commencement speaker Brian Knapp ’13, this day almost never came. On August 4, 2008, nine days before his 21st birthday, he was driving his Marine commander through the country side of Afghanistan when they vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device. He sustained a traumatic brain injury and struggled to remember simple words like “gate.”
Assemblyman Will Barclay said today the ethic’s oversight in the state Assembly is inadequate and needs to be reformed in order to protect the public’s interest, not political interest. Barclay is planning to put forth legislation that will create in law an Assembly standing committee on Ethics and Guidance that will be independent of the Assembly Speaker.
Mayor Tom Gillen has announced that an initiative of the Campus-City Relations Committee, the Hall Newman Center, and SUNY Oswego’s Campus Life and Residence Life and Housing offices will encourage students to donate rather than discard household and personal items as they prepare to leave town for the summer.
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