Today’s News: Brazilian Soccer Tragedy; From Switzerland to Fulton; From Japan to Fulton; New Staff Spotlight and more in today’s edition of The Raider – written by students in the GR Bodley Journalism Club and Journalism class.
Taking the place of former president and first ward councilor Thomas Kenyon, the council nominated and unanimously approved second ward councilor David Ritchie as president for 2017 during the first regular meeting of the new year. In other business, county legislator Frank Castiglia Jr., D-Fulton, stepped to the podium to speak to the common council at the first regular meeting of the new year. His first order of business, making a donation to the non-profit organization, Friends of Fulton Parks.
At Tuesday night’s public hearing, Dr. Dean Goewey, superintendent, offered a brief overview of the school district’s plan to sell the Education Center and relocate its central offices. He also responded to a handful of questions from the public. The district will hold a vote January 10 regarding two propositions – the sale of the building and use of funds to move central offices. Polls will be open from noon to 9 p.m.
Oswego Health welcomed its first baby of the new year, Marcey Jean Grace Krom, at 12:19 a.m. New Year’s Day. She weighed six pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 inches long.
The Port City is looking for the best possible ways to spend $10 million in Downtown Revitalization Initiative money. Nearly 100 residents gathered to lay the foundation for how that money might be put to use as well as it leveraging other funding and services. Oswego won just shy of $1 million in State funding from the NYS Regional Economic Development Council awards Dec. 8. The mayor announced that in 2016, the city decreased its overtime expense by nearly 30% in comparison to 2015.
Ruth Gruber, an American journalist who stumbled into one of the great rescue stories of the Holocaust when the U.S. government appointed her to escort nearly 1,000 Jews across U-boat infested waters to the shores of the United States, died Nov. 17 at her home in Manhattan. Residents who have a 315 or 680 phone number will soon need to enter the area code for all calls – including calls within the same area code.
Karl Haist returned to the champion’s podium in a big way at the Great Pumpkin fest in October. Parades are noted as slow with many breaks. That wasn’t the case as nearly 30 Modifieds, Small Blocks, Sportsmen and Pro Stocks started off at City Line Road, headed to East Tenth Street and then up the Utica Street hill before turning on to West First Street, right on Bridge and headed back to the Oswego Speedway pits. The Marching Bucs competed in the New England School Bands Association competition held at Wakefield High School in Massachusetts. They won the entire show with a score of 88.3 and received a gold rating.
In less than 80 days, the Oswego Speedway underwent a major overhaul for Super DIRT Week, with renovations that would typically take crews a year to complete. Since the “New Stage” was announced, construction crews have been scattered throughout the Oswego facility putting in 10- to 12-hour workdays to transform the timeless Oswego Speedway in advance of the 45th Annual NAPA Super Dirt Week.
On Saturday, December 31, at approximately midnight, State Police responded to a one-car crash on Morgan Road just south of Buckley Road in the town of Clay. A 2004 Ford F150 pickup truck, operated by James Darling, was traveling northbound on Morgan Road when he lost control, slid off the roadway and struck a utility pole.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who asked the New York PSC to adopt a Clean Energy Standard benefiting the state’s nuclear power plants, helped facilitate the transaction between Exelon and Entergy. An 8-year-old gives her change to help balance Oswego’s budget. West Nile and EEE were also making news.
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