Each of the 37 individual sirens will be tested between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. between Monday, Nov. 5, and Thursday, Nov. 8. The testing on Friday, Nov. 9, will include a full-scale simultaneous activation of all 37 sirens for three to five minutes.
The newly expanded store brings approximately 85 new jobs to the area and opportunities for customers to save money, according to Sue Palmer, store manager. “We are proud to be expanding during the year that Walmart celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first store opening,” Palmer said. “We look forward to serving the people of our community, helping save them money so they can live better.”
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today declared a state of emergency in New York in preparation for the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy, which may hit New York State in the coming days. A state of emergency mobilizes resources to local governments that otherwise are restricted to state use only and suspends regulations that would impede rapid response.
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Quirk’s Players present a hard-hitting, real-life drama tonight and Saturday when the student actors perform “The Laramie Project”. The play is a series of conversations that took place after the 1998 hate crime murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
Nearly 15 teams and more than 75 people from all over Oswego are already signed up for the first-ever Oswego Polar Plunge for Special Olympics New York. This is our first year plunging and our goal is to raise more than $20,000 to support the athletes of Special Olympics.
City officials are in the preliminary stages working out a plan to ease the parking problems in the first and third wards before the snow flies. At a recent meeting, First Ward Councilor Fran Enwright requested a discussion regarding open parking for the winter at Wright’s Landing.
The staff of the Oswego High School Buccaneer Bulletin newspapers certainly won’t be superstitious about the number “13” as the staff recently returned from the 2012 Empire State School Press Association with 13 gold medals. Claudia Strong, ESSPA workshop presenter, said, “The Buccaneer Bulletin looks more professional than many professional newspapers that I have seen in my career.”
The Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification Network-New York system allows victims of domestic violence and other crimes to register through NY-ALERT (www.nyalert.gov) to receive notifications of service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, via text message, e-mail, fax, automated phone call, web query or iAlertz, a free application for the iPhone or iPad.
On Wednesday, Cayuga Community College’s Fulton Campus welcomed six visitors from Russia who are here as part of a cultural exchange program through the International Center of Syracuse. They discussed the differences and similarities between their countries’ educational systems, focusing on what they had in common and how they could help each other in the future.
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