At Monday night’s Common Council meeting, the 2018 budget was approved 5-2 with councilors Pat McLaughlin and Shawn Walker voting no. Adding funding to the budget for upgrades for the Kingsford Park playground was the stumbling block. The $45,715, 532 spending plan carries a tax increase of 3.48 percent. The tax rate per $1,000 assessed value is 15.67.
Aerial spraying of portions of the towns of Hastings, West Monroe and Constantia was completed between 6:15 and 8:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28. Oswego County contracted with Duflo Spray-Chemical Inc. from Lowville to conduct the aerial spraying of about 10,000 acres of the Toad Harbor / Big Bay Swamp near the north shore of Oneida Lake to reduce Eastern equine encephalitis virus, which is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito.
The Oswego County Health Department plans to conduct aerial spraying of approximately 10,000 acres of land in the Big Bay – Toad Harbor Swamp area in the towns of Hastings, West Monroe and Constantia between 6:15 and 9 this evening (August 28). The area is bounded by U.S. Route 11 in Central Square to the west; NYS Route 49 to the north; up to but not including the village of Constantia to the east; and the shoreline of Oneida Lake to the south.
Oswego County’s tourism industry set new records for economic impact, direct spending and tourism employment in 2016, County Legislator Roy Reehil, chairman of the County Legislature’s Economic Development and Planning Committee, announced. “From 2015–16, visitor spending in Oswego County increased 6.8 percent to $146,013,000, with tourism employment growing 8.5 percent,” said Legislator Reehil.
Beginning September 6, OHS buses will be loaded and unloaded in the parking lot east of the high school between OHS and Liberty Street. In previous years buses were loaded and unloaded on Buccaneer Boulevard.
Weather permitting, the Oswego County Health Department plans to conduct aerial spraying of approximately 10,000 acres in portions of the towns of Hastings, Constantia, and West Monroe Monday evening, Aug. 28. Pesticide will not be applied over the open waters of Oneida Lake. The aerial spray will begin after 6 p.m.
It was 60 years ago on Aug. 18 that three workers lost their lives during one of the final phases of the construction of Oswego’s water intake tunnel. A fourth man, one of the dozens of volunteers who mounted a rescue attempt, also died after being overcome by gas fumes in the tunnel. Rescue attempts were slowed because volunteers had to wade through thigh-high water for the first 1,000 feet or so of the tunnel.
The State Board of Real Property Tax Services voted Wednesday (August 23) to adopt its staff’s recommendation to set the 2017 equalization rate for the town of Scriba at 86.2%. Since 2002, the town of Scriba has maintained a 100% equalization rate. The state board’s decision will effectively result in an increase in taxes to be paid by Scriba residents, town officials announced. Based on estimates, the owner of a property in Scriba valued at $100,000 will see an increase in their school taxes in October by as much as $300 over last year’s amount.
The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating a motorcycle accident in the 2100 block of West Genesee Road near the Interstate 690 underpass in the town of Lysander, which injured an Oswego County couple. Both were transported to Upstate University Hospital, where the male driver is currently being treated for a hip injury while the female passenger is being treated for a serious head injury.
The Oswego County Health Department has received notification from New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker of the declaration of an “Imminent Threat to Public Health” for mosquito-borne disease. The declaration enables the County Health Department to take steps, including aerial spraying, to control mosquito populations in Oswego County.
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