At Monday night’s Common Council meeting, city officials spoke with one voice: “We won’t give up our fort without a fight!” The councilors encouraged the community in joining them in contacting state officials in an effort to keep the historic site open.
Here’s your chance to tell your state legislators what you think of the plans to close Fort Ontario and more than 50 other state parks and historic sites.
Click to go to a form that will allow you to send a letter to State Senator Darrel Aubertine and all four of Oswego County’s members of the state Legislature.
Closing state parks, such as Fort Ontario, to help reduce the state’s budget deficit is a short-term fix for the state and a long-term headache for communities, some Oswego residents say. Ironically, the fort is now under attack by the very state that it has defended for more than two centuries.
Police announced in a news release that they arrested William L. Calkins, Sr., 42, of Fulton and Lorie A. Calkins, 39, of Rochester on felony charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records.
BREAKING: New York State would close Fort Ontario and 54 other state parks and historic sites to save money, under a plan released today.
The first Fort Ontario was built in Oswego in 1755.
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