“SUNY Oswego stands ready to assist our community,” Stanley said. “The direct loss of jobs if the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant closes would be one blow, but as it rippled through our economy, many other jobs would be threatened as the salaries and taxes associated with the mothballed plant and its employees disappeared.”
Fulton city lawmakers will soon be asked to provide significant taxpayer-funded breaks to lure a company into the closed Birds-Eye food processing plant, according to Fulton’s Mayor.
Ron Woodward said this week that a company is deep into negotiations to buy the Phillips St. plant and bring back a food processing operation.
Oswego AmeriCorps is a national service program that serves youth inOswegoCounty. AmeriCorps members mentor youth and provide fitness and nutrition activities in local communities. Applications are now being accepted for one 300-hour position atPalermoNuRuTeenCenterand for 29 900-hour positions across the county.
Senator Ritchie sponsored and organized the event to show residents that, even with what the senator admitted is a “blow to Oswego County,” (the loss of Birdeye) there are, according to the senator’s communications director Jim Reagen, “actually more opportunities than people realize.”
Unemployment rose in Oswego County in June, and the jobless rate remains among the state’s highest. Even so, there is some hopeful news in the numbers.
“We’ve started to see some over-the-year job growth,” said Karen Knapic-Scalzo of the state Labor Department’s Syracuse office.
SUNY Oswego’s Office of Business and Community Relations will host a public issues forum July 14 for the greater Oswego community about the Bion Environmental Technologies Inc. proposed integrated beef cattle processing, ethanol and renewable energy project. Reservations to attend the forum are requested by July 9.
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