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Motorcycle Crash Claims Life

June 10, 2019 Steve Yablonski

On June 9, at around 7:12 p.m., members of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a one-vehicle motor vehicle accident.One person died in the crash. The accident is still under investigation and alcohol appears to be a contributing factor..

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`Only 982’ Documentary Screening Set June 20 – International World Refugee Day observed at Fort Ontario

June 10, 2019 Contributor

“Only 982,” a 14-minute film documentary on three of the 982 Holocaust refugees interned at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter during World War II, will be shown at 7 p.m. on June 20 at Fort Ontario State Historic Site in Oswego. Following the film there will be a question and answer session with the film’s screenwriter, Assistant Professor Juliet Giglio of SUNY Oswego, and one of the subjects of the film, former refugee David Levi and his family.

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Business in Fair Haven is Rising, Despite the Rising Waters • Here’s How You Can Help

June 10, 2019 Steve Yablonski

Little Sodus Bay in Fair Haven is one the best kept secrets on the North Coast of America – Lake Ontario’s southern shore. Because of its unique location almost in the geographic center of the state, the community has become the focus of many a family’s summer fun for decades. And it still is – despite the rumors of flooding our pristine shores.

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Missing Palermo Man, Entrenched in Swamp, Located by State Police K9

June 9, 2019 Steve Yablonski

On Sunday June 9, at approximately 1:45 p.m., State Police in Fulton responded to a residence on Lot 10 Road in the town of Palermo for a report of a 71-year-old man, with dementia who had left the residence at 9:30 a.m. on foot and had not returned.

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Oswego County Couple Arrested for Leaving Baby Unattended in Vehicle

June 9, 2019 Steve Yablonski

An investigation has revealed, a store shopper contacted 911 after hearing a baby crying from inside a locked vehicle with the windows slightly cracked and the engine off.

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Fulton Families Spend Day At VanBuren Park

June 9, 2019 Kassadee Bradshaw

FULTON – Families in the Fulton community enjoyed a day of warm weather at VanBuren Park Saturday, June 8. There was an inflatable obstacle course, horse rides, games, basketball, an assortment of small animals and […]

Oswego’s Maritime Museum Commemorates Its D-Day Tug

June 8, 2019 Contributor

Great and powerful nations memorialize their military histories, for those struggles, that courage, and those sacrifices must never be forgotten.

But we do so according to the occasion. We celebrate the Fourth of July. We remember on Memorial Day. And we commemorate D-Day.

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Rabid Raccoon Confirmed in Scriba

June 7, 2019 Contributor

The Oswego County Health Department reported today (June 7) that a raccoon in the town of Scriba recently tested positive for rabies. This is the ninth rabid animal confirmed in Oswego County this year.

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Fulton Community Members Speak On Sharp’s Pond At Common Council Meeting

June 6, 2019 Kassadee Bradshaw

FULTON – Members of the Fulton community brought their concerns, opinions and memories of Sharp’s Pond to the Common Council meeting Tuesday night, June 4. Following a presentation by Department of Public Works Commissioner C.J. […]

Remembering Fulton’s ‘Forgotten’ Hero

June 6, 2019 Steve Yablonski

He earned his medal in the most important battle in the most important war in our nation’s history and this is his story.

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