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Oswego School Board Asks SED To Dismiss Proceedings Against Goewey

July 19, 2011 Steve Yablonski

The Oswego school board has interceded on behalf of a building principal and his battle with the State Education Department and a former Oswego school superintendent. David Fischer (superintendent from January 2005 to June 2008), is asking the state to revoke Dean Goewey’s teaching and administrator licenses. Tuesday night, the Oswego school board passed a resolution asking the state to dismiss the proceedings.

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Weather Notebook For July 19, 2011

July 19, 2011 Steve Yablonski

Things should be cooler today – lower 80s instead of upper 80s But, will there be any more showers?

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Broadway Bridge Project on Fulton Council Agenda

July 19, 2011 Contributor

The main item for tonight’s Fulton Common Council meeting is next year’s project to fix the deteriorating Broadway bridge over the Oswego River.

The bridge will be shut down while the state rebuilds the bridge, in the same way that the Route 104 bridge was shut down through downtown Oswego during its repair.

The Council will take up three items related to the project. See the full agenda inside.

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Council Looks To Form Oswego’s First Dog Park

July 19, 2011 Steve Yablonski

The Crisafulli baseball diamond area of Breitbeck Park is going to the dogs. At its meeting Monday night, the Physical Services Committee gave a favorable recommendation to transforming the currently idle baseball field into a park for canines. The full council will consider the plan next week.

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Fulton Rotarians Honor Vehrs for her Work in Literacy

July 18, 2011 Contributor

Over the last 30 years, Renae and her team, has helped 1,743 area adults earn their General Educational Development (GED) certificate. This certificate is equivalent to the high school diploma.

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Weather Notebook For July 18, 2011

July 18, 2011 Steve Yablonski

Fast-moving thunderstorms are blowing through. How much rain we get depends on how fast they’re moving.

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Roofing Work Wraps Up at Fort

July 18, 2011 Contributor

Photographer Harrison Wilde shares these photos with us.

He tells us Enwright Roofing finished its work this past week on the administrative building at Fort Ontario. It’s the building that houses the fort’s administrative offices, souvenir sales and rest facilities.

As always, we thank Harrison for sharing his photos with us. There’s another one inside…

Have you taken an interesting picture? Share it with everyone!

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City-County Youth Court Training Session Wraps Up

July 17, 2011 Steve Yablonski

Nearly two dozen students from around the county are taking the first steps last week to becoming active members of the City-County Youth Court program. Youth Court is a Family Court diversion program aimed at reducing juvenile delinquency in the city and county of Oswego.

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Phoenix Woman Dies in North Country Accident

July 16, 2011 Contributor

State Police say Sean Johnson drove to his camp on the shore of Black Lake in Macomb, St. Lawrence County because his mother was staying alone at the camp and had not answered his phone calls for the past few days.

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Weather Notebook For July 15, 2011

July 15, 2011 Steve Yablonski

Despite the lack of rain this month, Fulton is still about 4 inches wetter than average and where it was last year at this time.

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