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Oswego Daily News

Community Remembers Rosemary Nesbitt

<p>Mrs. Rosemary Nesbitt.</p>

UPDATED – I learned a great deal from Rosemary Nesbitt. And, the education didn’t cease over the course of more than three decades since I left the classroom. Mrs. Nesbitt passed away peacefully on Sunday, with her family by her side. She was a Distinguished Teaching professor at SUNY Oswego, where she will be fondly remembered as an inspiring educator.

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Oswego Daily News

Oswego’s Historian Dies: Rosemary Nesbitt, 84

The woman who brought history alive in Oswego for decades has died.

Rosemary Nesbitt died Sunday, 84 years old, ending a life of documenting Oswego’s history and spreading those stories to others through theater, books and talks.

Enjoy this slideshow of Rosemary in action:

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Fulton Daily News

Witnesses Describe Maxwell Home, Erin’s Last Days

The firefighter who tried to save Erin Maxwell’s life described a home so foul that she ran outside and threw up, then went home and asked her husband to burn her clothes.

Debra Denery, president of the Palermo Fire Department, was the key witness on Saturday in the trial of Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell, Erin’s parents, who are not charged in Erin’s death but with misdemeanor counts of child endangerment for the conditions of the house Erin lived in.  Erin’s step-brother, Alan Jones, will be tried in September for what police say was Erin’s sexual assault and murder.

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Oswego Daily News

OHS Student Delves In Life Into DC

<p>Mary Caroline Losurdo, fourth from right, and some of her new friends pose in front of the Washington Memorial.</p>

Mary Caroline Losurdo recently returned from the National Youth Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. The 10-day program offered outstanding high school students from across the United States the opportunity to take part in a unique leadership development conference in our nation’s capital. An honors student, Mary will be a senior this fall at OHS.

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Oswego Daily News

Courtroom Taunts and a Parking Lot Argument at Maxwells’ Trial

Emotions boiled over Friday evening at the trial of Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell, as the defense lawyer got into a parking lot dispute with a spectator and taunted the prosecutor during court.  It all happened as a State Police Investigator finished 8 hours of testimony about conditions inside the Maxwells’ farmhouse in Palermo.

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Oswego Daily News

More Mosquitoes Test Positive For EEE – County Plans Aerial Spraying

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The Oswego County Health Department has been notified that four more pools of mosquitoes, collected from the Toad Harbor/Big Bay Swamp area on the north shore of Oneida Lake, have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis. Public Health Director Dr. Dennis Norfleet said the virus has spread from a species of mosquito that feeds on birds to a species that bites humans, As a result, Oswego County is preparing to conduct aerial spraying of the Toad Harbor and Big Bay swamps by the middle of or late next week.

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Fulton Daily News

Investigator: I Couldn’t Breathe Well In Maxwells’ Bedroom

Inv. Joseph Harriger took photos in the Maxwells’ master bedroom, showing numerous cats inside the closed room and piles of feces in several spots.  But he didn’t stay long.  “When I went in, I was taken back by the strong odor of ammonia,” he said.  “When I went to take a breath, I felt like I couldn’t.”  He stayed only 5 minutes.

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