Weather permitting, the Oswego County Health Department will conduct an aerial spray of the Toad Harbor Swamp on the north shore of Oneida Lake Wednesday evening, Sept. 2. The aerial spray will begin after 6 p.m. and continue until the area has been treated.
Fulton dominated the first team-vs-first team parts of the scrimmage. Both teams open their league seasons this weekend.
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The Oswego County Sheriff’s Department says Joshua A. Spicer, 14, of 39 Beaver Lodge Road, Altmar was swimming in the lake at midafternoon when someone found him unresponsive in the water. Police and rescue workers were called at about 3:40 p.m.
Erin Maxwell is gone, but far from forgotten. Several dozen people gathered Sunday night under the pavilion at Palermo Town Park to remember the girl who died a year ago.
“I wish I could have helped you,” said Colleen Scott, one of the people behind Justice for Erin.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand met the officials of Oswego County’s various governments Friday afternoon for a brief give-and-take on economic issues that produced offers to help bring more money to the area.
Their message, whether the issue was stimulus funding, farming or a new nuclear plant, was simple: We need money.
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The Oswego County Health Department is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture again this year in a rabies vaccine distribution program to prevent the spread of raccoon rabies in New York State. Planes flying over rural northern Oswego County will drop packets of rabies vaccine between today (Aug. 28) and Sept. 3.
The Oswego County Health Department has received notification that 12 additional pools of mosquitoes have tested positive for the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. Eleven of the pools were collected from the Toad Harbor/Big Bay Swamp area and one came from a trapping site located along Lot 10 Road in the Town of Palermo.
Fulton’s varsity football team will play the entire 2009 season on the road.
The original plan — to play its games at home during the second half of the season, once the new turf field is installed — died officially a few days ago, when more asbestos was found in drainage pipes beneath the field last Friday.
Abby Weaver sends us this photo of marathoners training. She writes: “Training for the Century Marathon, October 11 in Fulton, is a team effort. Local runners Beth Foederer and Sam Familo lead the training runs each Sunday around Fulton. The training schedule includes running 12 miles August 23, 15 miles August 30 and 20 miles the following weekend. The runs are held rain or shine, and often cover part of the marathon course. Call the Fulton YMCA at 598-9622 or email [email protected] for information on the training run meeting time and place.”
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