Fulton Daily News
Weather Notebook For July 24, 2012
Temperatures may drop a bit, but the humidity lingers
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Fulton Daily News
Synthetic Drugs Forum Highlights What People Don’t Know About These Fast-Moving Drugs
Medical and legal experts have a host of questions about synthetic drugs like bath salts: How can we make them illegal? How can we deal with people high on the drugs? What’s the best approach to the problem of addiction?
But a public conference call on the subject Monday night shows that average people have far more basic questions. For example: What’s a “bath salt”? Is it really the same thing I’d put in my bath?
INSIDE: Frequently Asked Questions about synthetic drugs, and the full audio of the conference call.
Oswego Daily News
Councilors Table Local Law Targeting Bus Companies
After more than an hour and 20 minutes of a pointed public hearing and another 13 minutes of discussion between the councilors themselves – the “drunk bus” issue was parked on the table for the time being.
Oswego Daily News
Pulaski Fund Awards Local Grants
The Greater Pulaski Community Endowment Fund awarded $11,219 in grants to five Pulaski-area nonprofit organizations.
Fulton Daily News
Weather Notebook For July 23, 2012
Heat, humidity and in some places – thunderstorms to start the week.
Oswego Daily News
Paddlers From Ithaca Make Their Way To Oswego
Five Central New York paddlers traveled water routes from Ithaca to Oswego, arriving on Sunday, to demonstrate the potential for developing a water trail that links the Finger Lakes with Lake Ontario. Dick Drosse of the Oswego County Environmental Management Council paddled with the group from Indian Point to Fulton and Minetto.
Oswego Daily News
County Legislature Eyes Possible Lodge Repairs At Camp Zerbe
If the Adirondack style lodge, built in the 1940s, is repaired and opened to the public it would create a much needed venue for residents in that part of the county, legislators said. It would also benefit the local businesses, they added.
Fulton Daily News
Photo Gallery: W. Second St. Fire
Click inside to see a gallery of photos contributed by Kyler Gardner from Saturday’s firefight at a multi-family home on Fulton’s West Side.
Fulton Daily News
Mutual Aid Needed in Fulton to Help Battle House Fire
Fire did severe damage to a home on Fulton’s west side Saturday afternoon.
The fire, in the 350 block of W. Second St., required a rare call for the city to ask for help from volunteer departments, according to Acting Fire Chief Paul Foster.
Oswego Daily News
DNA Links Body Found Near Oswego With Girl’s Disappearance 28 Years Ago
In July, 1984, two mysteries began. In Western New York, a teenaged girl walked out of her home after a late-night argument. She was never seen again. And near Oswego Harbor, a fisherman found a headless torso floating in the water.
It took 28 years — and the development of DNA technology — to solve those two mysteries and begin the search to solve the third: Who killed Nancy Scamurra?
We’ve got exclusive coverage and pictures from Friday’s news conference in Amherst, near Buffalo.