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Fulton Daily News

A Death in Colorado Answers Questions In Oswego County

<br />Robert "Cowboy Bob" Matteson

Robert Matteson died last weekend in Oak Creek, Colorado.  He was 63.

Matteson, who grew up in Central Square, was well known in Oak Creek as “Cowboy Bob” and at the same time, he was barely known at all.  He was said to be the small town’s only homeless person, but few there knew how he came to be that way.  In Oswego County, his family knew that his time in Vietnam had changed him but after he suddenly left town, they could never find where he had gone.

His peaceful death in a garage solved a lot of mysteries.

There’s a wonderful article in the local newspaper there, called The Steamboat Pilot and Today, that gives Robert Matteson’s life its proper due and ties up the loose ends on both sides.  It’s worth your time to read it.

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Central Square Timber Thief Sentenced

Matthew Todd Solomon, 43, of Constantia (Oswego County), has been sentenced in Oswego County Court to pay fines and restitution and do community service after being convicted of illegally cutting and removing trees on private property located in the Village of Central Square. The standing value of the timber that was cut and removed by Mr. Solomon was estimated by a certified forester at $10,120.

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OCAY League Designs Distinctive Competition

</p>First place in the second OCAY League competition and winning the gold medal was the team from Mexico High School. Pictured left to right are: Lucy Hall, Kelsey MacDougall, Abby Anderson, Katie Monteith, Molly Freihofer, Paulina Dornblut, Dan Spicer, Ashley Yerdon, Robert Sherman, and Coach Bill Coughlin.

Think Project Runway meets Junkyard Wars and you would have a general idea of the latest Oswego County Academic Youth (OCAY) League competition. Teams from each of the nine Oswego County school districts converged on the SUNY Oswego campus for a unique competition that brought together “fashion designers with a reuse and recycle attitude.”

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