At the close of Thursday’s county legislature meeting, Phil Church, Oswego County Administrator, presented a succinct overview of the county’s proposed 2017 budget. The 2017 draft budget for the county is $198,530,227.
The Princeton Review educational services company recognized SUNY Oswego as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the seventh edition of its publication, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 361 Green Colleges.”
Oswego’s Civic Plaza will be transformed into an outdoor ice rink next month. And, if one councilor has his way, the plaza on the south side of Oswego City Hall just might receive a major facelift in the future. At this week’s council meeting, the mayor was authorized to execute a contract with Artificial Ice Events for the rental of the ice rink for the city’s tree lighting event in November. Later in the meeting, it was suggested the plaza could be repurposed for year-round events.
The day after NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week XLV dropped its final checkered flag, track crews began the process of removing the 500+ loads of clay that were temporarily dumped on Oswego Speedway’s asphalt racing surface to hold ‘Racing’s Biggest Party.’ Beginning early Monday afternoon, all remaining clay is expected to be lifted from the ‘Steel Palace’ by the end of the day on Friday leaving a full two weeks for final preparations leading to the Speedway’s next on track activity.
SUNY Oswego’s Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit will return to Waterman Theatre at 3 p.m. Oct. 27, with an accomplished panel of Oswego-connected personalities whose work encompasses art, music, theater and communications — all four of the School of Communication, Media and the Arts’ disciplines. The theme of their hour-long summit is “Digital, Social, Mobile: How Media Trends Impact Theatre, Music and Art.”
Today’s News: Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Month; Across The World in One Meeting; Raider Den is Open for Business; Standing for, But Not Reciting, the Pledge and more in today’s edition of The Raider – written by students in the GR Bodley Journalism Club and Journalism class.
The Oswego council worked throughout the summer to come up with a winter parking policy that would be fair and make the majority of the residents happy. They aren’t quite there yet. However, at Monday’s meeting, they approved a policy that’s the best step going forward into the coming winter, the councilors agreed. The policy will be in effect from December 1 of each year until March 31 of the following year. It calls for no parking on residential streets from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m.; except for the downtown area where the ban is in effect 2 – 6 a.m.
This past weekend, the Marching Bucs competed in the New England School Bands Association competition held at Wakefield High School in Massachusetts. The Marching Bucs won the entire show with a score of 88.3 and received a gold rating. The Marching Bucs also won caption awards for Best Music, Best Color Guard, and Best Percussion!
At about 3:40 p.m. Monday, Volney Volunteer Fire Department along with four ALS ambulance from Menters were dispatched to a two-car MVA with several patients, with possible extraction. Three patients were transported to Syracuse hospital, one patient transported to Oswego Hospital.
Oswego County Clerk Michael Backus issued a warning for local residents. Some people have recently reported receiving direct mail solicitations from companies offering to provide deed reports and other information for excessive costs.
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