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Couples looking to celebrate their weddings in Oswego’s Breitbeck Park are likely going to be hit with a fee. At Tuesday night’s Administrative Services Committee meeting, councilors gave a favorable recommendation to a request by Tom Kells, DPW commissioner, to approve a charge a per hour fee for use of Breitbeck Park (non-pavilion area) for weddings.

Flu activity is picking up in Oswego County! If you or your loved ones have not received a flu vaccine yet, get vaccinated today. Across New York State, cases of flu increased by 66 percent for the week ending Dec. 30, compared to the previous week.

Fort Ontario State Historic Site Manager Paul Lear presents an illustrated lecture on the history of America’s only Holocaust Refugee Camp, located at Fort Ontario in Oswego. The program will take place at 2 p.m. on January 27 in the large meeting room at G.S. Steamers Bar and Grill in the Quality Inn, 70 E. First St.

SUNY Oswego was the only public college in New York to crack the list’s top 100 online graduate business programs, and leads all colleges and universities in New York on the list. Clarkson, Hofstra, RIT, Syracuse and Marist also appear.

After a thaw that took us from single digits up into the 60s in some areas, the current forecast across all of Western and Central New York is calling for freezing rain, sleet, heavy snow and plummeting temperatures starting tonight (Jan. 12). So, how can drivers prepare themselves and their vehicles to combat the elements?