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This state-funded program supports strategic investments at public-use airports across New York to ensure safety, modernize aviation-related facilities, leverage private investment and sustain and create well-paying aeronautical-related jobs. Funds are earmarked for Oswego County Airport’s Terminal Building Construction.

Anglers fishing the 2018 NYS Winter Classic Fishing Tournament can visit three local businesses — All Seasons Sports and Salmon River Sports Shop in Pulaski, and App’s Bait and Tackle in Cleveland — to register and weigh in their catches. The statewide event includes all waterways of NY State, allows anglers to use any legal angling methods and includes seven main categories of fish plus an overall award for the largest burbot caught this year.

UPDATE 6 PM 1-7-18: The boil water advisory was lifted at 6 p.m. Jan. 7.
The city of Oswego has issued a boil water advisory for residents living on West Fourth Street between Erie Street and Niagara Street in the city of Oswego due to a water main break in the area.

University Police at SUNY Oswego arrested Ryan R. Russell, 30, on multiple motor-vehicle felonies and other charges. The Oswego resident was charged Jan. 1 with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation and driving while intoxicated with a previous conviction, both class E felonies.

Simmons Hanly Conroy law firm filed a lawsuit on behalf of Oswego County against pharmaceutical companies and physicians over the aggressive and fraudulent marketing of prescription opioid painkillers that has led to a drug epidemic in the county and throughout the nation. The county seeks relief in the complaint that includes compensatory and punitive damages, for the millions of dollars it spends each year to combat the public nuisance created by the drug companies’ deceptive marketing campaign that misrepresents the safety and efficacy of long-term opioid use.