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Do This Saturday: Fulton’s City-Wide Garage Sale

September 4, 2009 Contributor

Saturday’s your last chance this year for efficient garage sale shopping.

Fulton’s City-Wide Garage Sale takes place Saturday, all day, all over the place. If you’re running a garage sale, drop your info in the comments below.

And while you’re out, stop by the Fulton Farmer’s Market downtown. The county will be demonstrating the new voting machines that it will soon begin using. And the vegetables and fruits are pretty good, too.

Also this weekend: The International Classic at Oswego Speedway, an encampment at Fort Ontario reenacting the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, and Old Home Days in Redfield Saturday and Sunday, with a big parade Saturday night.

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Fulton’s Home Rehab Experiment Makes Its First Sales, Turns A Profit

September 3, 2009 Contributor

The city of Fulton’s first efforts at entering the real estate market have turned a profit.

The city this week approved the sale of homes at 470 S. 6th St. and 414 Park Ave. to new owners. (That’s the S. 6th St. home you see above.) The city seized the homes for having unpaid property taxes. Normally, local governments sell the homes at auctions, usually for the amount of taxes owed. But Mayor Ron Woodward had an idea: What if the city rehabbed the homes and sold them at market rates, just like any other homeowner?

Now, there’s an answer.

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Fulton Church, Neighbors Square Off Over Driveway

September 2, 2009 Contributor

Fulton’s Believer’s Chapel church lost its struggle Tuesday night to get a second driveway, in the face of polite opposition from the church’s neighbors.

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Reading Council To Host Author

September 1, 2009 Contributor

The Oswego Reading Council will host John Farrell (http://www.johnfarrell.net/), author and entertainer, at its first event of the 2009 -2010 school year.

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Rotarians Discuss Struggles of the Deaf

August 31, 2009 Contributor

At a recent Sunrise Rotary Meeting, Rotarian Dan Farfaglia told the club about Deaf Awareness Week, which is the last week in September and how some movie theaters are playing a part in helping those that are hearing impaired to enjoy the movie.

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Tourney Raises Funds For Playground

August 31, 2009 Contributor

The Parent-Teacher Group (PTG) at Granby Elementary School hosted a fundraising golf tournament last Saturday at Battle Island Golf Course in Fulton.

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Rotarians Hear About RSVP

August 31, 2009 Contributor

Oswego County RSVP recently presented a program to the Fulton Rotary Club.Ã‚Â Rotarian Nancy Kush Ellis, left, introduced Helen Milam, center, assistant director, and Ellen Wahl, right, director, of RSVP to the Rotarians.

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Photo Gallery: Fulton vs. Oswego Football Scrimmage

August 31, 2009 Contributor

Would you believe we’ve got more than 90 pictures in a photo gallery from Saturday’s football scrimmage between Fulton and Oswego? Click the story to see the gallery.

Fulton dominated the first team-vs-first team parts of the scrimmage. Both teams open their league seasons this weekend.

Got a good local sports photo? Share it with us!

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A View of History: Nestle, 1951

August 31, 2009 Contributor

This week, local archivist Tom Tryniski revisits a piece of the glory days of Fulton, the days when it was a city full of factories.

None was bigger or better known than Nestle, and with the effort to revive the closed chocolate plant stuck in court, Tom shows us an average day when the plant was full of people.Ã‚Â Notice the full parking lot.

As always, visit Tom’s website, FultonHistory.com, to get your fill of local history as seen in the pages of the area’s old newspapers.

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Judith A. Cole, 88

August 31, 2009 Contributor

Judith A. Cole, 88 , of Fulton passed away Saturday at Rosewood Heights Health Center in Syracuse.

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