A mix of sun and clouds Thursday as temps creep into the upper 40s.
The man who guided his football team through a tragedy is the new assistant principal at Fulton’s G. Ray Bodley High School. The Fulton Board of Education approved the hiring of Jeffrey Charles Tuesday night.
He was the head coach of the team when one of his players, Ridge Barden, collapsed on the field last year during a game against Homer and died.
With several dozen fellow firefighters looking on from the audience, the president of the Oswego Firefighters’ Association made an impassioned plea for the mayor and council to reconsider the proposed cuts to the department in the tentative 2013 city budget.
On Sunday, a group of local Oswego paddlers along with visiting paddlers were exploring the historic Battle Island area of the Oswego River. Passing by the south end of the island, opposite Battle Island Golf Course, some type of manmade items could be seen from the kayaks on the island. What they found was an abandoned encampment where a ruined tent/clothing, spoiled food and human waste were left.
Continued cool Wednesday with overnight lows in the 20s.
One thing leads to another and another and … This is the story of citizens in action and how simple acts often can and do contribute to the greater good of the community, if not entire region.
When Alan Jones was put on trial in 2009 for the murder of Erin Maxwell, Judge Walter Hafner warned then-District Attorney Donald Dodd that he was pursuing a risky theory of the crime.
Three members of Oswego’s 444th were killed earlier this month when their humvee was struck by an improvised explosive device in Paktiya Province, Afghanistan. A large poster, with photos of the men, stood near the center of the Veterans’ Memorial Park, beneath the trio of flags on Sunday as the Port City paused to salute its veterans.
The “bloater” fish, a deepwater cisco, was re-introduced into Lake Ontario offshore of Oswego, bringing the fish back to the lake for the first time in nearly 30 years. The historic action is the first of its kind in the Great Lakes and is the culmination of several years of collaborative laboratory, hatchery and field research.
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