The Fulton Common Council recently heard public input, though minimal, on two separate resolutions. One was in regards to the budget process. The other dealt with parking/storing recreational vehicles.
Expedition courses at NOLS take students of all ages into remote wilderness areas where instructors teach students technical outdoor skills, leadership, and environmental ethics.
The Oswego Town Volunteer Fire Department held a special training drill and invited neighboring departments. The event held to give firefighters a better insight to the inner working of a fuel tank trailer.
Assemblyman Will Barclay and Assemblyman Bob Oaks applauded the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) for approving the sale of FitzPatrick.
Workers are busy putting the finishing touches on what will become the permanent home to the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center at Fort Ontario Park. The Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego was the only site in the United States where holocaust survivors were provided a “safe haven” during World War II. Dr. Ruth Gruber’s legacy to Oswego.
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. She was 105. Her son David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, confirmed the death
Today (Nov. 17), in a 4-0 vote, the NY State Public Service Commission approved the sale of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant. In August, Entergy accepted an offer from Exelon Corp. to buy the facility for $110 million. Prior to this agreement, Entergy was preparing to shut down the FitzPatrick plant in January 2017. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission still need to approve the sale.
The Upstate Energy Jobs Coalition, a group representing more than 130 business, education and labor leaders throughout upstate and central New York, released the following statement in response to today’s (Nov. 17) Public Service Commission hearing in Albany on the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant transfer of ownership between the Entergy Corporation and Exelon Corporation.
State Senator Patty Ritchie today (Nov. 17) applauded the actions of the New York State Public Service Commission’s decision to approve the transfer of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. to the Exelon Generation Company, a critical step in the effort to protect local jobs and the reliability of the state’s energy grid.
In addition to the efforts of hundreds of homeowners from many walks of life and to city and sponsor collaboration, the project also owes success to date thanks to SUNY Oswego faculty members serving as executive director and board members; students, faculty and staff as improvement-minded homeowners; and direct and indirect financial and management support from the college and the State University of New York.
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