Oswego Daily News
Amanda’s Law Starts Feb. 22
Amanda’s Law is named after Amanda Hansen. The 16-year-old West Seneca, NY, girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning on Jan. 17, 2009, while at a sleepover at a friend’s home.
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Oswego Daily News
Oswego School Board Continues Budget Debate
At Tuesday’s budget workshop, the Oswego School Board told the administrators what kind of budget they’d like to see for the next school year. Though they didn’t exactly agree on how to get there, board members said there’s no room for a tax increase.
Fulton Daily News
It Was Nice While It Lasted
Records fell across Upstate New York on Monday as an unusually late mid-winter melt came to an end.
From Binghamton to Watertown, the weather set records for temperatures in the 50s and for rainfall as high as 1.75 inches in Binghamton.
Fulton Daily News
Fulton To Hire New Firefighter
The city will hire a new firefighter. There’s no vacancy yet, but the mandatory Fire Training Academy for new firefighters begins March 1 and only happens once a year.
Oswego Daily News
Council Urges Oswegonians To Stand Up And Be Counted
Every year, the federal government distributes more than $400 billion based on census data, according to Tory DeCaire, chair of the city’s 2010 Complete Census Count Committee. A lack of participation can result in the community receiving less federal funding and less access to important services and resources than it might otherwise have received.
Community
Fulton Lions Hosts Feb. 10 Chicken BBQ For ‘H’ Dowd Scholarship
The Fulton Lions Club has announced that they will be hosting its fourth annual chicken BBQ, Sun. Feb. 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fulton Polish Home to benefit the club’s Mary […]
Fulton Daily News
North Bay Campground To Raise Rates A Little Bit
Fresh off a successful season of camping, the city of Fulton-owned North Bay Campground will raise its rates a little. Fulton’s Common Council recently approved the rate hikes for the campground on the shore of Lake Neatahwanta.
Oswego Daily News
Oswego School Board Budget Workshop Set
On Tuesday, at 5:30 p.m., the Oswego City School District Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools Bill Crist and the Central Office administration will meet for a special budget workshop.
Oswego Daily News
Port City Seeks Firm To Analyze Landfill Site
At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council will consider a request to hire a professional soil testing firm to perform a stability analysis of the slopes at the Legends’ Softball Complex landfill site. After a tour of the site last fall, DEC officials alerted the city to three violations that are to be corrected by Feb. 1. One has been fixed; it is hoped the stability anaysis will satisfy the remaining two.
Fulton Daily News
RaiderNet Daily: Playoff Time
Wrestlers gear up for the postseason, while the boys basketball team faces a more uncertain fate. Also: what’s up with all those vampire movies and books? A movie review and weekend NFL picks, too.