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At this month’s Oswego County Legislature meeting, Emily Bradshaw spoke out on what she describes as ‘a nearly invisible’ problem – homelessness. Her quest is to have a shelter built to help those in need. In the meantime, she is collecting personal care items to make up personal care bags to hand out to the homeless at the DSS or OCO offices and in schools.

Early this morning (Sept. 16), control room operators removed Entergy’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from service to begin its 20th refueling and maintenance outage after generating electricity safely for 700 consecutive days. This marks the second consecutive time FitzPatrick has operated “breaker-to-breaker” (operating from one refueling outage to the next without needing to take the plant offline in between).

On April 3, 1994, Heidi Allen went missing from the convenience store at the intersection of Route 104 and 104B in New Haven. Authorities say she was kidnapped by a couple of local brothers and is presumed dead. Lisa Buske said she revealed the cover as a birthday gift to her sister, “and what better place than here at the remembrance garden.”

The New York State Department of Health has notified the Oswego County Health Department that evidence of the West Nile virus (WNV) was found in two different mosquito pools collected from the Toad Harbor Swamp area.

The abuse of bath salts and other synthetic drugs is on the rise in the Oswego area. In response to this developing trend, the Upstate Poison Control Center of Syracuse will offer a free educational seminar, open to the public, to educate the Oswego community on this epidemic.