The New York State Police announced today (Dec. 21) that they will participate in the national enforcement initiative to crack down on impaired driving this holiday season. The New York State Police will participate in the national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, from now through January 1, 2017.
Today’s News: New leadership for Fulton School District; Giving to others during the holiday season; Girls’ bowling rolls out a win streak; New staff spotlight; Parade of Trees and more in today’s edition of The Raider – written by students in the GR Bodley Journalism Club and Journalism class.
A week after the Common Council voted to rescind its approval of a new sewer use contract with Oswego Town, a resolution to override the mayor’s veto of that action never made it to a vote Tuesday night. The contract with the town that was approved 7-0 on October remains in effect.
As part of the continuing demolition of the former Nestles building, Fay Street between South Fourth and South Fifth streets will be closed starting today, December 20.
College student. Communications studies major. Motivational speaker. Now a first-time author. Soon-to-be summiteer of Kilimanjaro. The list of descriptors applicable to Fulton native Timothy Conners is all the more impressive when two more are considered: blind cancer survivor. At 15, he was diagnosed with a blood cancer known as T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that eventually robbed him of his vision.
As Oswego County’s bicentennial year winds to a close, Legislator Shawn Doyle recapped some of the events of the past 12 months. It was 200 years ago, this spring that Oswego County was formed. At the start of 2016, Kevin Gardner, chair of the legislature, set up a committee regarding the county’s bicentennial year observance. “For the longest time, it wasn’t really a big priority,” Doyle, committee chair, said. “We were facing some tough choices last January. Our nuclear plants were in jeopardy, one ready to close. This was the last thing on our minds, how we’d get through a bicentennial.”
After graduating a large senior class in 2016, the Phoenix Central School District’s marching band entered the season in rebuilding mode, and the end result exceeded all expectations. The Firebirds, in the final show at the Carrier Dome in late October, nailed the performance with its best show of the season.
Wintertime fun takes on a wide variety of entertaining, recreational and educational forms as SUNY Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley invites the greater Oswego County community to the latest Cruisin’ the Campus, a series of family activities and events in late December and the first three weeks of January.
A Brewerton man has been charged with murder. And a Phoenix woman has also been charged in connection with the crime.
The Fulton City School District Board of Education heard from district superintendent at CiTi, Chris Todd as he pitched the possibility of funding a long term study for the district. Todd asked the board of education to consider allowing a study to occur within FCSD. A very comprehensive, deep, long study to show data regarding the opportunities the district offers, the opportunities all the districts in the region offer, and longer term projections for about five to ten years out to look at the sustainability of them.
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