Letters to the Editor

The Friends of the Oswego Library respectfully asks the citizens of the Oswego School District to support the Oswego S.D. Public Library by visiting their polling locations on May 20 and voting yes for the levy that’s has been placed on the ballot.

National Volunteer Week marks a special time of year for The Fresh Air Fund, and I would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to our dedicated Fresh Air volunteers, hosts and supporters in Oswego area.

I do not recall the date, but clearly remember the moment, when a couple of friends of mine approached me about investing in a company that was making “conversion” kits for the Volkswagen beetle. These […]

On behalf of the hundreds of children and their families that we serve at the Child Advocacy Center of Oswego County I would like to thank those caring businesses and individuals who helped to make our third Annual Chicken Wing & Micro-Brew Fest such a success! The event raised more than $15,000 to help support our efforts to provide vital services to children who have been sexually or physically abused, neglected or maltreated.

Although there were two very positive ideas brought to the table, but they are only in the talking stage right now and it would not be pertinent to mention them at this point in time.
I will say that both of these ideas would be supported by all three of the county legislators.

In recent news, CVS/Caremark has announced their plans to end all tobacco sales by October 1 of this year. This is a huge step forward for public health. It has been a conflict of interest for pharmacies, providers of health care, to also profit from the sale of harmful products such as tobacco, known to cause cancer, heart and pulmonary diseases.

In November 2013, the Oswego Sub Shop was contacted by the United States Secret Service and identified as a possible common point of purchase of a credit card breach (hack). It is also important to understand that this is NOT an “internal investigation,” as it has been speculated in social media outlets, BUT RATHER a much larger investigation and scope.

On Saturday, January 25, the New Hope Presbyterian Church held its annual American Red Cross Blood Drive at the Parish Fire Station. Despite the cold and the busy-ness of everyone’s lives, we welcomed fifty-nine willing donors. The end results were fifty-five units of blood collected, which has the potential to save 165 lives.

Your help is now needed in the war on Synthetics: the poisons that are still being packaged and sold in under false labels attractive to children. These Synthetics are killing and permanently injuring many people all over our country! An effective long-term legislation was introduced in 2013 that needs the public’s help to move through Albany into law.