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Fulton Daily News

Lobbyists Arranged Congressman Owens’ $20,000 Trip To Taiwan

Congressman Bill Owens (D-Plattsburgh).Two days after Christmas last year, Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., and his wife, Jane, boarded a first-class flight to Taiwan for a four-day tour of the island. Although Owens filed a travel disclosure with the House Ethics Committee that identifies the trip’s sponsor as the Culture University, email messages and other documents reviewed by ProPublica show that lobbyists from the New York firm Park Strategies, founded by former New York Sen. Al D’Amato, had invited Owens on the trip and spent four months organizing it.

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Oswego Daily News

Mayor Urges College Students To ‘Leave Green’

Mayor Tom Gillen has announced that an initiative of the Campus-City Relations Committee, the Hall Newman Center and SUNY Oswego’s Campus Life and Residence Life and Housing offices will encourage students to donate rather than discard household and personal items as they prepare to leave town for the summer. The reuse effort, called “Leave Green,” will help the local Oswego community while diverting usable items from the waste stream.

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Oswego Daily News

The Ultimate Fishing Town Contest: Vote for Your Town!

Vote our townWorld Fishing Network.com is searching for the Ultimate Fishing Town, and Oswego County has not one, but two communities nominated: Oswego and Pulaski. The town that wins will be crowned WFN’s Ultimate Fishing Town, receive a $25,000 community donation, and have a television feature produced on WFN as the Ultimate Fishing Town!

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