After a brief, but blustery, visit from Old Man Winter, it looks like a white Christmas is a sure bet this year, despite recent above freezing temperatures the past few days. Widespread snow is expected to move in around 10 tonight (Christmas Eve). A general 2-6 inches is forecast. Monday (Christmas Day) will be windy and colder with snow transitioning to lake snow during the midday hours.
More than 140 young basketball players left the War Memorial with a gift after Saturday’s game day for Fulton Youth Basketball. Presents were collected by varsity and junior varsity athletes from the girls basketball and cheerleading teams as well as the varsity boys soccer team, all of which individual athletes purchased their own presents to donate. As an undertaking led by Fulton’s athletic director Christopher Ells, each team in the district organizes and prioritizes a project to emphasize giving back to the community. For the girls basketball program’s project, 143 gifts were purchased and donated to be distributed randomly to Fulton Youth Basketball players from each team in grades pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.
Prior to the last Oswego County Legislature meeting of 2017, Legislator Dan Farfaglia headed west. He helped nearly three dozen men, women and children receive an early Christmas gift – U.S. citizenship.
When you’re an old and chubby guy hauling zillions of dollars worth of toys and goodies on your sleigh in the dark of night with only eight tiny reindeer for protection – it’s safe to say you could use some more security. And, if you cover the entire world in one night, you need someone who can keep up with you. That’s where The US Air Force comes in.
Kevin Gardner gave members of the Oswego County Legislature at bit of advice at group’s December meeting. “Stay together. Keep working together. Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something. If they tell you you can’t – prove them wrong, prove them wrong,” he said in his final address as their chairman. Gardner represented District 13 for the last 14 years and served as Legislature Chairman for the past four.
Today’s News: Two Wins for Girls’ Basketball; CiTi Field Trip Informative for Sophomores; Random Acts of Kindness Boost Holiday Spirit; and more in today’s edition of The Raider – written by students in the GR Bodley Journalism Club and Journalism class.
On December 14, the Oswego County Legislature approved a feasibility study associated with the reuse of the Waste Water Treatment Plant at the former Miller Brewing facility in Volney. As part of their approval, the Oswego County Legislature agreed to pay $49,000 toward the study. The remaining $49,000, of the $98,000 study, will be paid by Operation Oswego County and the County of Oswego Industrial Development Agency.
Friends of Fort Ontario AmeriCorps staffer Corey King will lead a unique First Day Hike at 10 a.m. New Year’s Day around the 75-acre Fort Ontario National Registered District. Hikers will register and assemble inside the old stone fort and march about one mile at a moderate pace around the buildings, grounds, foundations, roads, and locations of battles and significant events in the fort’s 263-year history.
Members of the Oswego School Board got a glimpse Tuesday night of a proposed multi-million capital project aimed at refurbishing the district’s aging schools. The projected cost of the plan is $60,180,000. Local funds to be applied total $4,000,000. State building aid is expected to pay for 63.4 percent of the work. A public vote is tentatively set for March 6.
Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow announced today (Dec. 19) the creation of a new schedule at the city of Oswego Department of Public Works, a move that turns the department to a twenty-four hour, seven days a week operation for the months of December through March. Mayor Barlow has now implemented three different rotating shifts Monday through Sunday, a change the mayor says will surely decrease the amount of overtime within the department while also expediting the snow removal process and help with snow plowing efficiency.
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