Nearly 200 years after his death, a Revolutionary War soldier was honored with a gravesite marker and wreaths in a small rural cemetery during Independence Day weekend July 3. The ceremony honoring veteran Elias Cady was organized by the Syracuse Chapter of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution.
At its July meeting, the Oswego County Legislature adopted Local law No. 3. The law regulates secondhand dealers regarding the sale and purchase of secondhand articles within the county of Oswego. It will help police in their efforts to locate stolen property that criminals attempt to sell at secondhand businesses. It takes effect August 1.
The Oswego County Health Department reported today (July 15) that a bat in the town of Constantia has tested positive for rabies. “The rabies virus is active across Oswego County this summer,” said Jiancheng Huang, Oswego County Public Health Director.
Governor Andrew Cuomo made a trip to Oswego (July 14) to formally announce the city’s status as a Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding winner in the Central New York region. As a winner of this funding, Oswego will receive ten million dollars to use as means to revamp the downtown area of the city, one of ten overall winners out of 122 total applications throughout each region of the state. Mayor of Oswego, William Barlow Jr., referred to as “one of the youngest, but also one of the best in the state” by Governor Cuomo, was prideful of the application the city had developed and was overjoyed it had been selected.
This project was announced during last year’s Central New York “Capital for a Day” as one piece of a comprehensive 47-point plan to advance Central New York through investments in infrastructure, housing and higher education. “Route 104 in Oswego County is a critically important commerce route in Central New York, connecting Interstate 81 with rail and port facilities, farming communities and SUNY Oswego,” Governor Cuomo said. The work will take place over two construction seasons and is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Cuomo announced during a visit to Oswego today (July 14) that the Super DIRT Week racing event intends to be held at Oswego Speedway this year.
A packed conference center at the Best Western in Oswego anxiously awaited an announcement from Governor Cuomo. “I’m here to tell you today, congratulations you are a first place winner,” Cuomo told the room in regards to the statewide Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The initiative will provide the winning city of Oswego with a ten million dollar grant to revamp the downtown region of the city.
The Fulton City School District has been named a focus district for the 2016-2017 school year, with specific focus on G. Ray Bodley High School as a focus school, as well as two elementary schools in LAP status, Fairgrieve and Volney. Each of these distinctions require the schools to follow state protocol and come up with appropriate plans to combat the problem areas in the effected subgroups. Executive director of instruction and assessment, Elizabeth Conners updated the board of education on these plans at the first summer (July 12) board meeting. “This doesn’t mean we’re bad,” said Conners. “It means we have some structures and systems that we need to come back to and tighten up to ensure all students in the Fulton City School District are learning.”
The Port of Oswego was awarded its 14th Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award on July 13 from the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation. SLSDC Administrator Betty Sutton presented the award to Zelko Kirincich, executive director and CEO of the port, during the semi-annual American Great Lakes Ports Association meeting held in Chicago.
Assemblyman Will Barclay released the following statement in support of the Public Service Commission’s new Clean Energy Standard in light of the news that Entergy and Exelon are in discussions to keep FitzPatrick operational. “I encourage the Public Service Commission to act quickly to adopt the newly proposed Clean Energy Standard. With the news today of Entergy in discussions with Exelon, it is critical that this newly proposed standard becomes the state’s new policy. Nuclear power supplies 30% of the state’s electricity with 17.9% of the power coming from Upstate.”
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