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Rep. Dan Maffei has been traveling around the district and meeting with people. The one message he’s heard loud and clear is that “we need to grow our middle class, fix our economy, and create more good paying jobs in Central New York. These are our top priorities,” he said.

The State Education Department’s review of Dr. Dean Goewey has concluded with the finding that he “has the requisite good moral character to be a teacher and administrator in New York State.”

More than 60 people filled the room at the village hall for the public hearing on the March vote to keep or shut down the department.  They heard Mayor Karl Hax say that the department needs a second full-time officer in order to be effective and to raise the hourly rate of part-time deputies in order to attract and keep them.

The Oswego County Health Department and SUNY Oswego health officials have located persons who had close contact with the student. Several close acquaintances were treated with preventative medication at the Mary Walker Health Center at SUNY Oswego.

The port needs to make critical upgrades to infrastructure and equipment so that it can meet future shipping demands, increase productivity and preserve its role as a critical resource for business throughout Central New York – and around the globe, Schumer said. He presented a three-pronged plan to enhance port operations.

Jiancheng Huang, Oswego County Director of Public Health, said an 18-year-old female college freshman was taken by ambulance to SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse early this morning (Feb. 18), as a suspected case of bacterial meningitis. She was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit at SUNY Upstate.