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Fulton Block Builders Positively Impacts the “Sealright Community”

June 23, 2017 Mikayla Kemp

Fulton Block Builders is working with homeowners in what’s been known as the “Sealright community,” according to FBB founder, Linda Eagan. The Sealright community is a string of houses in the Cayuga and Utica Streets area, Eagan said. “All of these houses were built by Sealright for their employees around 1945. They were known as the Sealright Homes,” said Jeanette Davis, one of the most recent homeowners to be presented with a Fulton Block Builder matching grant check.

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Oswego County Flood Victims Can Pick Up Water Test Kits at Sandy Creek Town Clerk’s Office

June 23, 2017 Contributor

Residents of flooded areas who want to have their water tested for bacteria may pick up test kits and drop off water samples at the Sandy Creek Town Clerk’s Office, 1992 Harwood Drive, beginning Monday, June 26. The Oswego County Health Department is working with town officials to make test kits available and to pick up samples of water for lab testing. Samples will be tested for Coliform bacteria and E. coli bacteria.

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Tips for Mosquito Control and Preventing Mosquito Bites

June 23, 2017 Contributor

The week of June 25 – July 1 has been declared the 20th annual “National Mosquito Control Awareness Week” by the American Mosquito Control Association, an organization dedicated to preserving the public’s health and well-being through safe, environmentally sound mosquito control programs since 1935. The goal of the “mosquito week” is to educate the public about the significance of mosquitoes’ potential impacts on people’s daily lives and the important service provided by mosquito control workers throughout the United States and worldwide.

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Paddlefest participants head towards Oswego Harbor during 2016's event.

Committee Gives Green Light To PaddleFest Plans

June 22, 2017 Steve Yablonski

At this week’s meeting of the Physical Services Committee,
Justin Rudgick, Community Development Director, said he received a request from Cre8 Studios regarding the Oswego County Paddlefest to be held on July 22. The kayakers will reach Oswego around 11 a.m. and the event will last until 7 p.m.

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Statement From Senator Patty Ritchie

June 22, 2017 Contributor

For the past several months, my colleagues and I have been working diligently at the Capitol to build a brighter future for all New Yorkers. With the 2017 Legislative Session now complete, I am proud to report that by working across the aisle, we have achieved many major accomplishments that will help to make our state a better place to live and work.

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City Officials in Process of Purchasing Dredge For Lake Neatahwanta Clean-Up

June 21, 2017 Mikayla Kemp

The intended opening of Fulton’s former beach area on Lake Neatahwanta, Stevenson Beach, will be delayed at least another dredging season. Though city officials were once hopeful the beach could reopen this summer, high toxicity levels do not permit swimmable conditions which Mayor Ronald Woodward Sr. referred to as “disappointing.” Currently, the city is in the process of buying the dredging equipment from the contractor that has been completing the dredging work in recent years, Groh Dredging.

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Fulton Block Builder Recipients Help One Another In Many Ways

June 21, 2017 Contributor

At the heart of the Healthy Neighborhood Initiative (HNI) which is what Fulton Block Builders is founded on, is a shared sense of community. Community is about engagement, sharing excitement, and being good neighbors. All around the city you can find neighbors helping each other just as these three have done on the west side.

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Interpretive Panel Describes Historical Significance of Fort – Safe Haven

June 20, 2017 Steve Yablonski

On the site of “hallowed grounds” Tuesday evening, a new outdoor interpretive panel was unveiled near the granite refugee memorial installed in 1981 by the Syracuse Chapter of Pioneer Women/NA’AMMAT and the Jewish Community of Central New York, which was dedicated to the millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust who never had the opportunity to start a new life. The panel describes the historical significance of the World War II Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter – the only one in the United States.

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Police Seek Public Assistance In Locating Missing Person

June 20, 2017 Steve Yablonski

Oswego City Police are seeking the public’s assistance in attempting to locate Alexander Reynnells. Alex had left word that he was moving out of his Oswego residence on June 9, 2017, and has not been seen or heard from since that date. Family and friends are concerned about his well-being.

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Dave Cordone, Fulton City School District Board of Education president, shows off his Central New York School Boards Association Board Member of Achievement plaque.

CNYSBA Names Dave Cordone as Member of Achievement

June 20, 2017 Submitted article

Fulton City School District Board of Education President David Cordone was recently honored with the designation of the Central New York School Boards Association Board Member of Achievement award for the 2016-17 school year.

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