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The plan can help lessen the impact of disasters like the snowstorm in 2007 and the ice storm a few years before that. And, it can help the city save money in dealing with such calamities, the county’s Emergency Services Program coordinator said.

Col. Zebulon Pike’s brutal winter encampment at Plattsburgh, and stories of daily life in the North Country during the War of 1812, are among the topics to be presented at the third annual Oswego War of 1812 Symposium.

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.