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Fulton Daily News

Fulton Native Publishes Book Ahead of Kilimanjaro Climb

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.

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Kevin Gardner, chair of the legislature, left, recognizes Shawn Doyle for the work he did all year on the county's 200th birthday.
Oswego Daily News

Oswego County Wraps Up An Historical Year

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.”

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Oswego Daily News

Phoenix Marching Band Takes Home New York State Title

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.

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Oswego Daily News

Cruisin’ The Campus To Provide Family-Friendly Activities at SUNY Oswego

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.

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Fulton Daily News

FCSD Hears Pitch From CiTi District Superintendent for Long-Term Study

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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Fulton Daily News

Starting Tonight: Fulton Community Theatre Presents “Christmas Something”

Sound of the Holidays fill the air as FCT presents “Christmas Something . . .” Remember the Good-Old Days when old-fashioned Christmas specials with host like Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Andy Williams would fill the airwaves and warm our hearts at Christmas time. Fulton Community Theatre is looking to help bring back those memories with their December offering “Christmas Something.”

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Oswego Daily News

Driver in Fatal Charged With Manslaughter

On 12/15/16 Faith M. Dechick was arrested on a charge of Manslaughter in the second degree based on the death of William E. Todd, Sr. Ms. Dechick was arrested at the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office and arraigned before the Oswego Town Court Hon. Mike Sterio, and released on bail she previously posted pertaining to this case.

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