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Cold Case Tuesday: State Police Continue To Investigate The 1973 Death Of An Oneida Castle Woman

December 5, 2017 Contributor

On July 26, 1973, Martha Louise Allen was reported missing by her grandfather from their residence in Oneida Castle. He had last seen her on July 25 at approximately 8:30 a.m., when he left the residence to go to the Syracuse area for the day. On August 17, 1973, a boater on Black Creek, in the area of Verona Beach State Park, located a partially decomposed female body in the water. The body was later identified as Martha L. Allen.

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Nurses and public health educators from the County Health Department are reminding people to protect themselves and their loved ones from the flu by getting the influenza vaccine. First row, from left, are Lauren Lok, Emily Boyle and Jodi Martin. Standing, from left, are Sonia Robinson, Tina Bourgeois, Anna McNamara, Chantel Eckert and Jennifer Purtell. The health department offers flu shots Monday through Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. at the Nick Sterio Public Health Clinic, 70 Bunner St., Oswego.

Oswego County Health Department Urges You to Fight the Flu

December 5, 2017 Contributor

The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to hospitalization or death. People of every age, including people in good health, are at risk of flu. People who get the flu vaccine also protect the people around them,

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Oswego Looks To Improve Energy Usage In City-Owned Buildings

December 4, 2017 Steve Yablonski

Mayor Billy Barlow requested consideration from the Common Council to adopt a resolution establishing Energy Benchmark Requirements for city-owned municipal buildings. Collecting, reporting and sharing building energy data on a regular basis allows city officials and the public to better understand the energy performance of municipal buildings relative to similar buildings nationwide.

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Oswego Hospital began offering free valet parking services to patients today. Pictured are Tyler Krebs and Jeff Keaty of Valet Park of America, which is providing the new service.

Free Valet Parking Available for Oswego Hospital Patients

December 4, 2017 Contributor

Patients at Oswego Hospital can now take advantage of a perk that will keep them warm and dry when they arrive by vehicle at the healthcare facility: free valet parking services. Oswego Hospital began offering the complimentary valet parking service today (Dec. 4) to patients using one of the hospital’s many services. Motorists, who wish to take advantage of this new patient initiative, need to just drive up to the hospital’s main covered entrance between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

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Bubis Facing New Sex Charges

December 4, 2017 Contributor

On Nov. 30 at 9:28 a.m., sheriff’s deputies arrested Gary A. Bubis Jr., 37, of 393 Albion Cross Road, Pulaski. He was charged with first-degree sex abuse, a class D felony. He allegedly engaged in sexual contact with the victim being less than the age of 13.

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CiTi and the city of Oswego are teaming up to tear down dilapidated homes within the city. Pictured from left, CiTi’s Work-based Learning Coordinator Barb Rainville, Mayor Billy Barlow, CiTi’s Assistant Superintendent for Personnel Mark LaFountain, Regional Program Coordinator Marla Berlin and Business Education Liaison Garrette Weiss stand proudly in front of the first home to be demolished as part of the project.

CiTi Helps Oswego Remove Blighted Houses

December 4, 2017 Submitted article

Students at the Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation are teaming up with the city of Oswego to help tear down blighted houses within the city. The new partnership kicked off on Nov. 28 when students and staff from CiTi arrived at 154 E. Seneca St. to begin to demolish the building.

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Jayme McCreary, a December graduate who will join her master's in human-computer interaction with her SUNY Oswego bachelor's in computer science to work on the AXA U.S. user-centered design team, is one of more than 500 students eligible to take part in the college's Dec. 16 Commencement ceremony.

SUNY Oswego December Graduates Planning Next Steps

December 4, 2017 Contributor

More than 500 students are eligible to walk across the stage at SUNY Oswego’s December commencement on Dec. 16, with many already taking steps toward the future. Jayme McCreary takes two Oswego degrees — the human-computer interaction graduate degree she is about to earn and her bachelor’s in computer science — into a full-time job as a tech associate on the AXA U.S. user-centered design team.

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Fulton Fire Department Honors Two Fallen Firefighters

December 3, 2017 Mikayla Kemp

Just over 100 years after their line of duty deaths, Fulton Fire Chief David Eiffe honored two of Fulton’s fallen firefighters, Floyd L. Adel and Leon J. Hammond. Today, Eiffe strives to remember all four of Fulton’s former firefighters whose names are on the NYS Fallen Firefighters Memorial Wall in Albany that lost their lives in service at some point in the department’s 115 years of service. Fulton Fire Department lost firefighters Adel and Hammond almost exactly one year apart, a rough year in department history, Chief Eiffe said. As both line of duty death anniversaries approached, Chief Eiffe and the Fulton Fire Department organized a remembrance ceremony to be held in their honor.

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APW Board Selects Eric Knuth as Superintendent of Schools

December 1, 2017 Submitted article

The Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Central School District Board of Education announced that it has voted to hire Eric Knuth as the new Superintendent of APW Schools. Knuth is currently the principal at Cazenovia High School. He holds a B.A. in English from Siena College, a Master’s in education from the College of St. Rose and a C.A.S. from Cortland State University.

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Exelon Generation To Test Public Notification System On December 5

December 1, 2017 Contributor

Exelon Generation will perform a bi-annual, full-volume test of its emergency warning sirens on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 1 p.m. Because this is only a test, no response by the public is necessary.

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