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Christmas is on its way to the village of Mexico and is bringing a favorite holiday story with it. Celebrating its ninth season, Christmas in Mexico promises fun character interaction, shopping and crafts, pictures with Santa, and a coloring contest for the children.

On November 28, at about 1:30 p.m., Oswego County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the area of County Route 10 in the Town of Schroeppel on a report of a man swinging an axe at passing motorists. The man was disarmed and taken into custody. As a result of the altercation, three deputies were injured.

At approximately 9:54 p.m. a 2009 Pontiac G6, being operated by Ryan M. Hilton, 27, of 28 Kennedy Drive, Oswego, was stopped in the area of Bunner and Maple streets. He was subsequently found to allegedly be in possession of a small amount of marihuana as well as 44 individually wrapped bags of heroin.

The Oswego County Department of Social Services will temporarily re-locate to the former Cayuga Community College facility on state Route 3, west of Fulton, in mid-December. The Mexico office building will be closed for asbestos abatement and repairs until early May 2013.

Alan Jones was re-sentenced on Wednesday in Oswego County Court. He received the maximum for second-degree manslaughter, 5 to 15 years. He had been serving a 25 years to life sentence.

The Starr Clark Tin Shop and Underground Railroad Museum will open its doors to visitors at an open house Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. The tin shop was a key gathering place for abolitionists. Constructed in 1827, it is believed to be the oldest mercantile building in Oswego County.

“Any time you’re messing with this, it’s like playing Russian Roulette In reality, these drugs are poison. It’s about time we start calling them what they are,” a representative from the Upstate New York Poison Center told the crowd Tuesday night.