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Oswego Daily News

Oswego Grad Murdered in Boston Suburb

Craig Mulgrave, flanked by police officers at his arraignment in Haverhill, Mass. District Court on Feb. 10.  Photo by Angie Beaulieu/The Eagle-Tribune.  Photo used with permission of the Eagle-Tribune.An Oswego High School graduate was murdered in her Boston-area home earlier this week, and police say her husband admitted to the killing.

Christina Foote Mulgrave was stabbed many times by her husband, Craig, police allege. She died in their apartment in Haverhill, Massachusetts on Tuesday. Christina Foote graduated from Oswego High School in 1982. She worked as a nurse.

Photo courtesy The Eagle-Tribune.

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Fulton Daily News

Legislature Takes Up Nuke Plant Taxes, Pay Raises, Bridges

Oswego County legislators today take up plans that could lead to property taxes being paid on the county’s three nuclear plants.

The plants, all in the town of Scriba, will pay no property taxes until at least 2016 under an agreement with the owners of the nuclear plants.  Legislators will consider scrapping that law. Today, they’ll vote on whether to hold a public hearing on the issue, a required step in changing a local law.

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Oswego Daily News

Construction Work Gets Under Way In Oswego Schools During February Break

This year, the February break may be much shorter than usual, but that won’t stop a major work effort from getting under way in the Oswego City School District. Work will get started at Oswego Middle School,  Leighton Elementary School and Fitzhugh  Elementary School as well as continue at Oswego High School.

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Fulton Daily News

School Budget Situation Goes From Bad To ‘Bleak’

School officials from around the region met in Onondaga County Saturday for a breakfast meeting with their state legislators. At the same time, a publication sent to school board members arrived, containing a commentary from the leader of Democrats in the state Legislature, Sheldon Silver. The message from both was clear: Expect cuts in state aid to schools.

“It’s not a surprise, but it’s rather troubling,” said Fulton Superintendent of Schools Bill Lynch.

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Fulton Daily News

Valley News, Patriot Sold To Syracuse-based Chain

The company that owns The Valley News and the Fulton Patriot has sold the publications to the company that prints the two newspapers.

Vincent and Ronald Caravan, the father and son team that operated the publications (and the Valley News Advertiser, a weekly shopper) for 38 years turned over the keys last week to the Scotsman Press, Syracuse-based owner of 18 publications throughout Central New York.

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Fulton Daily News

Hannibal School Board Agenda For Tonight’s Meeting

The Board of Education will take up the long-running discussion of a possible land acquisition.  Also tonight: a board member’s desire for a Junior ROTC program will come up, as will a discussion about setting up an educational foundation and a board member’s investigation of a consolidation plan in a nearby county.

You can read the entire Hannibal board agenda here (pdf).

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