Fulton Daily News
Weather Notebook For May 11, 2012
Looks like we’re headed back into May weather for the weekend – and beyond
News
Fulton Daily News
Lobbyists Arranged Congressman Owens’ $20,000 Trip To Taiwan
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.
Oswego Daily News
Oswego County Backs Project To ‘Fight The Bite’
The Oswego County Legislature voted Thursday to approve a project to help locate and eradicate more mosquitoes that may carry the deadly Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus. Members of Maggie Sue Glenister Wilcox’s family were on hand to urge the legislators help stop the spread of EEE.
Fulton Daily News
Artists emulating O’Keefe’s style
Today’s News In RaiderNet Daily: Paying attention to food can pay off
And, Track wins three of four
Fulton Daily News
Weather Notebook For May 10, 2012
OK, it’s mid-May. Why does it feel like early April?
Fulton Daily News
Oswego County’s Rural Post Offices Survive in New Post Office Plan
The post office’s leaders reacted to a storm of complaints over its plans to close many rural post offices. Wednesday, it announced plans to keep those offices open.
Now, the bad news: Many other post offices will have their hours reduced to compensate for the changes.
Oswego Daily News
April Was Warm, Light On Showers
April showers didn’t quite live up to expectations last month. The average temperature last month was 45.8 degrees. That is 1.1 degrees warmer than normal. However, total precipitation for the month came in at 2.14 inches. That is 1.18 inches below average.
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.
Oswego Daily News
The Ultimate Fishing Town Contest: Vote for Your Town!
World 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!
Fulton Daily News
GRB Senior trip finalized
Today’s News In RaiderNet Daily: Pregnancy prevention month underway
And, Raiders take two in lacrosse