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Mayor Billy Barlow has announced a ‘Stop the Spread’ Stay at Home Order in the City of Oswego further tightening local efforts to encourage social distancing and limiting person to person interaction.

The ‘Stop the Spread’ Stay at Home Order calls for a local, non-essential travel ban in the City of Oswego, limiting travel to and from work for essential employees only, medical visits or shopping for essential items only. The ‘Stop the Spread’ Order is part of a larger executive order the City of Oswego issued that includes using the Oswego Fire Department, Oswego Police Department and Oswego Code Enforcement to educate the public throughout the community in the coming weeks on the non-essential travel ban, closes city playgrounds, mobilizes a Department of Public Works crew to regularly sanitize public places, closes Wright Landing Marina until at least July 13th and delays the upcoming city-wide styro-foam ban until September 8th.

“We’re continuing to introduce new ways to force social distancing in our community as the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Oswego County continue to increase. Our new measures will reduce travel, increase enforcement and education, all while continuing our efforts to limit activities, gatherings and the number of people in any one place at one time,” said Mayor Billy Barlow. “We’re actively enforcing our prohibition on mass gatherings and now will focus on unnecessary travel and activities while also coordinating with retail and large stores in the City of Oswego to implement social distancing practices and crowd control,” Barlow said.

Barlow said the Oswego Police and Fire Departments will begin enforcing social distancing measures at larger retail stores in Oswego while the Oswego Police Department will be around the community informing the public on the importance of social distancing. Other announcements include the complete closure of Oswego City Hall and instructions to watch city government committee and council meetings starting Monday, April 6th.

The public is encouraged call the Oswego Police Department at 315-342-8120 or email [email protected] to anonymously report non-essential businesses still open and operating or to report groups of individuals or mass gatherings taking place at nearby residences, parks or other public facilities.