The Oswego City School District Board of Education, after an extensive search, has selected two finalists as candidates for the soon to be vacated Superintendent of Schools position.
s there a veteran you would like to honor? Perhaps you would like to thank the men and women who are serving currently. This year, the Fulton Memorial Day Salute Committee is making it possible to do so in the annual Fulton Memorial Day Salute ad booklet that is distributed in connection with the event.
Mostly sunny on Tuesday – and a bit warmer, too.
Several groups and individuals rolled up their sleeves over the weekend to help clean up the area. In Oswego, several members of AmeriCorps volunteered to clean up the grounds around the Human Concerns Center on East Fourth Street. The Oswego Kiwanis Club reportedly did a cleanup along Route 48 in Minetto, north of the village. Several others have or are planning cleanups for Oswego County’s Earth Week, April 19 – 28.
For the past two years teachers in the Fulton City School District have been working to align the curriculum they teach to students with the Common Core standards. The Common Core represents the “goals” or “benchmarks” students should be able to meet in order to compete on a global level in the future.
For several years, OCHS has held its annual “Strut Your Mutt” dog walk/run event on the same weekend as the Barn Cat Boogie. However, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, a very large Utah based organization with a national following, has held a trademark on the phrase “Strut Your Mutt” since 2002 and ordered OCHS to stop using it.
The Oswego County Department of Social Services facility at 100 Spring St. will officially re-open to the public at 8:30 a.m. April 29. The staff will move back into the Spring Street building on April 26.
Filling two of the largest rooms in the Richardson-Bates House Museum (the Oswego County Historical Society) recently, local residents came to learn more about George Scriba and the Scriba Patent.
It’s sad but true. Following major disasters and tragedies, scam artists impersonate charities to steal money or get private information from well-intentioned taxpayers. Fraudulent schemes involve solicitations by phone, social media, email or in-person. Scam artists use a variety of tactics. Some operate bogus charities that contact people by telephone to solicit money or financial information.
During Wednesday’s Hannibal Board of Education meeting, the board unanimously voted to adopt the budget and authorized the $28.8 million spending plan for the coming school year. The budget is a $1.4 million or 4.4% increase over last year’s budget and includes the $20.3 million allotted to Hannibal from the state.
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