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.
State Police in Hastings are investigating a one-car crash that occurred shortly after 1pm this afternoon (Oct. 22) on Interstate 81 in the town of Hastings.
Nice today and even nicer by Thursday and Friday
Fulton city lawmakers Tuesday decided to keep moving forward with plans to take land from the town of Granby over the town’s objections. Two votes, on an environmental declaration and on a petition to the state to allow the annexation, were unanimous. The battle begins, and could end up in a state court.
The impact of this settlement on the school district will be a loss of approximately $1 million of tax revenue during the 2012-2013 school year.
“The Laramie Project” takes a straight-on look at the aftereffects of a real hate crime — the torture and murder of a gay young man in Laramie, Wyoming. It’s a bold choice for a high school play and contributing writer Janel Sullivan finds that the young cast is up for the challenge of showing how a community tries to find love in the ashes of hate.
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