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Becksted & Keefe State Champs; Hockey to Final Four & Byrne Leads Bowlers

March 5, 2012 Submitted article

State champions Drake Becksted and Cory Keefe returned to Oswego on Saturday evening celebrating a day which qualified them as the elite among their peers in their respective events. Meanwhile, the boys’ varsity hockey team earned a berth in this weekend’s Final Four Division II State Tournament and Cameron Byrne rolled the overall high series of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Bowling Tournament in Waverly, as the Bucs finished fourth.

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Troopers Make Arrest In Drive-By Shooting in Granby

March 5, 2012 Steve Yablonski

UPDATE: An East Syracuse man has been charged in connection with Monday morning’s drive-by shooting in the town of Granby. The investigation determined that five rounds from a firearm were discharged into the residence, nearly striking an 11-year-old occupant who was sleeping at the time. The suspect was remanded to the Onondaga County Justice Center on $100,000 cash/$200,000 bond.

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Quirk’s Seniors set for fond “adieu”

March 5, 2012 Contributor

Today’s news in RaiderNet Daily: 2011 was a safer year for hunters

Also, VIP wristbands for NHS members and, It’ll be a cold one tonight—see weather

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AmeriCorps Members Work To Help The Community

March 5, 2012 Steve Yablonski

Danielle Czyz is one of the more than two dozen AmeriCorps workers getting things done in Oswego County. “The goal of AmeriCorps is to bring Americans together to strengthen our community. You may see members serving in an organization that serves our community, a school, or a library,” she said.

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Laker Hockey Receives Bid For NCAA Division III Tourney

March 4, 2012 Steve Yablonski

The Oswego State men’s ice hockey team was one of three teams to receive an at-large bid into the 2012 NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament on Sunday night. The Lakers (22-3-2) will host a quarterfinal game against the Elmira Soaring Eagles (15-8-3) on Saturday, March 10 at 7 p.m.

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Loveable Baseball Players Featured in Damn Yankees

March 4, 2012 Submitted article

Performances for Damn Yankees are scheduled for March 8, 9 and 10 in the Bodley H.S. Auditorium. Curtain time is set for 7:30 each evening. Additionally there will be a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. “Damn Yankees is a great story with wonderful music,” explained Tom Briggs, theatre director at Bodley. “It is a story of love, self-discovery and baseball. Set in the nostalgic 1950s, Damn Yankees is thought provoking and moving.”

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Oswego County E-911 Radio Tower Project Continues

March 4, 2012 Submitted article

The first order of subscriber units, portables, mobile and control stations will be submitted in May and training will coincide with the roll-out of the new equipment. Testing is scheduled to be conducted in June, July and August and the new system is on track to be fully deployed and accepted in September.

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Oswego State Men’s Ice Hockey Suffers 3-2 Loss

March 3, 2012 Submitted article

The top-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team (22-3-2) nearly erased a two-goal deficit in the third period, but fourth-ranked Plattsburgh (19-4-4) held on to hand the Lakers a 3-2 loss in the State University of New York Athletic Conference Championship game Saturday night at the Campus Center Ice Arena.

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Laker Basketball Falls In Double OT

March 3, 2012 Submitted article

This time their comeback was not enough. The 14th-ranked Oswego State men’s basketball team trailed by 10 in the second half and by five in the first overtime, but a three-pointer by 21st-ranked Eastern Connecticut State University with 2.5 seconds left in double overtime handed the Lakers a 70-69 on Saturday night.

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Even If We Don’t Have Any – People Still Love To Talk Snow

March 3, 2012 Steve Yablonski

Snow continues to be a hot topic – despite the actual lack of the white stuff for the most part this winter. Some have tried to make it a bigger issue than it really is.

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