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Some rock and roll will be added to the heavy metal thunder at The Steel Palace this summer. At its meeting Monday night, the Administrative Services Committee laid the groundwork for a concert to be held at Oswego Speedway in August. The Trespass America Festival could draw thousands into the Port City.

A Fulton man was arrested Saturday on a warrant for grand larceny. While he was in OCJ Sunday, several other charges followed.

The average temperature last month was 62.6 degrees; the same as 1998 and just ahead of 62.0 degrees in 1880. Since April 2011 every month has been warmer than average.

The county will distribute one 65mg tablet for every child weighing less than 150 pounds, and one 130mg tablet for every adult in a household.

The Oswego County Health Department launched its full-scale mosquito surveillance program for the 2012 season with training sessions on May 21 at Toad Harbor Swamp.  Toad Harbor and Big Bay swamp areas are usually the first places EEE virus appears each summer. However, last year it appeared in a few places around Oswego County at the same time.

At about 2:51 a.m. today (June 3), members of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Department, McFee Ambulance and Palermo Fire Department responded to a single motor vehicle accident at the intersection of State Route 49 at State Route 3 in the town of Palermo. The driver died at the scene