There will be plenty of ‘hot’ stuff to do in the Armory and all over Oswego during Saturday’s Warm Up event. A special dance will be held at the McCrobie Building Friday night as a warm up for Warm Up.
Law Day turns out to be a success. Also, the Raiders fall to J-D, and why paying for college is a big step.
The city of Fulton will likely suffer a cut in its aid from the state, but Mayor Ron Woodward is actually relieved.
“I thought it would be a lot worse than that,” he said of the $33,000 cut in the city’s aid.
Scholastic Art judges awarded eighth grader Kayla Volkomer an honorable mention award. OMS Art teacher Linda Shannon said, “Kayla has an exceptional way of expressing herself visually. This is the first time I can recall that an Oswego Middle School student has received this recognition.”
The huge snowstorm creating havoc in the Midwest and elsewhere never really materialized in Central New York Wednesday. The Oswego-Fulton area received about 5.5 inches of snow with some freezing rain mixed in.
The storm didn’t quite turn out to be the monster that forecasts suggested it would be. Nonetheless, it generated enough snow and icy pellets overnight to force schools across the county to close for the day. That includes Oswego, Fulton, Hannibal, Phoenix, Mexico, Central Square, APW, Pulaski and Sandy Creek. Also closed: Cayuga Community College’s Fulton campus.
The Oswego School District Public Library will open at noon.
Oswego County’s schools will lose more than 15 million dollars in state aid to education under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget.
The devastating news showed up late Tuesday in data released by the state after Cuomo delivered an address in which he said that schools that have low wealth and depend heavily on state aid would be treated better than schools that have less need for state aid.
Members of the Oswego Fire Department Firefighter Chris Stupp and Firefighter Gary Clark were shoveling out fire hydrants on Tuesday.
Students get a first crack at the new Regents exam. Also today — the hockey team fights to make the playoffs, and a student learns to ski.
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