The Oswego Fire Department was dispatched at 6:40pm tonight to a residential structure fire located at 160 East 4th Street. This fire was in a 2 story, single family dwelling, with neighboring homes just a few feet away.
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One of the biggest legislative challenges in Albany is to make sure that there is parity in state spending between Upstate and Downstate New York.
Last week, the NYS Comptroller released a report that indicates that over the last decade, student loan debt for New Yorkers has grown by more than $10,000 for the average borrower. According to the Brookings Institution, Americans now owe a record $1.3 trillion in student loans and student loans are second only to mortgages as the largest source of household debt.
In a vote yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan measure, the Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act, which includes the text of legislation authored by Representative Katko and introduced earlier this month.
Assemblyman Will Barclay (R,C,I—Pulaski) recently held his Summer Reading Challenge reward party at the Oswego Public Library.
A Safe Harbour Conference, focusing on the issues of human trafficking and exploitation, is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Nov. 7 at Lake Ontario Conference Center, 26 East 1st St., Oswego, it was announced by Brian Chetney, executive director, Oswego City County Youth Bureau.
A number of years ago, when asked about an ethics overhaul of the State executive branch, Governor Cuomo responded that such an overhaul wasn’t necessary because the ethical problems were in the state legislature.
Our 2016 Nature Inspires series at the Amboy 4-H Environmental Education Center continues on Saturday, October 22nd at 2:00 pm, when Audrey Scruton, Oswego County artist, will instruct a class on 3-D Quilling.
Today, in response to recent opposition to the Clean Energy Standard (CES), Ted Skerpon, Chairman of the IBEW Utility Labor Council of New York, issued the following statement:
