Obituaries
Donald L. Cook, Sr., 61
Donald L. Cook, Sr., 61, of Fulton, died Monday.
Fulton
Community
Eileen Bartlett To Manage OCO Senior Dining, Activity Center In Fulton
Trinity Engle, program services coordinator with Oswego County Opportunities’ Senior Services Division, announced that Eileen Bartlett has been named manager of OCO’s Dining and Activity Center for seniors in Fulton.
Fulton Daily News
Fulton Marine In Afghanistan Helps Rescue A Car
A story courtesy of the U.S military brings us a tiny slice of life for some of our troops in Afghanistan. Ittells the tale of how a Marine from Fulton saw an Afghan man’s car roll down an embankment towards a river, and how he got the man the help he needed to save his car.
Fulton Daily News
Weston Ends 16 Years On Fulton Common Council With Praise And Thanks
Fulton Common Council meetings are likely to be a little less positive from now on, now that Bob Weston’s 16 year career as an Alderman is over. They’re also likely to be shorter.
Weston announced earlier this year he would not seek reelection as Alderman from the city’s third ward. A quick special meeting on Tuesday was the last hurrah of a political career that he said began by accident.
Fulton Daily News
Investment Firm Completes Purchase of Birds Eye Foods
The world’s biggest private equity company has completed its purchase of Birds Eye Foods, including the Birds Eye Fulton plant. The sale to Blackstone Group‘s Pinnacle Foods Group cost $1.3 billion. The fate of the Fulton plant or its seven other food processing factories is not known.
Community
Lanigan ELA Reading Night Makes Literacy Fun
The halls of Lanigan Elementary School were filled with red fruit punch mustaches, cheese puff orange fingertips and the joy of reading at the English Language Art Reading Night held recently at the school.
Obituaries
Evelyn Lamont, 93
Evelyn Lamont, 93, of Fulton, passed away at the home of her daughter on Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
Obituaries
Raymond F. Best
Raymond F. Best, the son of the late Clarence and Mabel Best, passed away at his home on Monday.
Community
Rotarian Distributes Dictionaries To School Students
Each year, the Fulton Rotary Club, purchases over 300 dictionaries and gives a copy to all of the Third Grade students in the Fulton Consolidated School District.
Fulton Daily News
Fulton High School Students Getting Ready To Lead Their Own Parent Conferences
G. Ray Bodley High School students accustomed to sitting glumly through their annual parent-teacher conferences will have to sport a new attitude soon. That’s because students will be running the conferences, not the teachers.