For caregivers and families with a developmentally disabled adult or child finding time for themselves and other family members can be challenging. Oswego County Opportunities (OCO) Respite Services makes it possible to find that time.
Please be advised that there will be a special/organizational meeting of the Common Council for Wednesday, January 4, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, second floor, in City Hall.
The City of Fulton received a grant in the amount of $61,500 from New York State through the Consolidated Funding Application process to complete a feasibility study to help the city develop multi-use trails throughout the city.
The Governor recently signed a bill that will reform the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to potentially expedite the process of obtaining public records. The measure passed with unanimous support in both the Senate and the Assembly in June and will become effective in the spring of 2017.
It is time for the Oswego County Legislature to universally adopt a 7 p.m. meeting time. Serving in our county legislature for almost a year I will be the first to acknowledge there are areas in which we are moving forward but it is also my elected job to make the public aware of an area that has fallen desperately behind.
Last September in Baltimore, Buffalo Bills players Jerry Hughes and Zach Brown missed the team bus for their game at M&T Bank Stadium. To make the game on time, they used Uber, a ridesharing company they accessed with an app on their smartphones.
March is Women’s History Month and this year marks the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in New York. Many of the early crusaders who fought for the right to vote for U.S. women lived in Upstate New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Josyln Gage are credited with shaping the national conversation in the mid and late 1800s, which led to Women’s Suffrage in 1920.
While there is a lot of disagreement in Albany, one issue where there is consensus in the legislature and with the governor is that additional investment needs to be made in our aging sewer and water infrastructure.
According to the New York State Maple Producers Association, New York is home to the largest source of tappable maple trees in the U.S., making New York an ideal producer of maple syrup.
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