County drills with Girl Scout cookies
Oswego County Health Department organized the third annual Strategic National Stockpile Drill with local Girl Scouts. Cookie cases stood in for medical supplies to be distributed in an actual emergency. County staff and other departments assisted as volunteers inventory the cases.
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Oswego County
Fulton pair charged after 2 year old burned by hot water
Kayleana Sushereba and Jeremy Wright of Fulton face charges after a 2 year old suffered second degree burns from hot water during a bath incident. Wright is charged with two counts of second degree assault and related offenses. Sushereba faces endangering the welfare of a child charges. Child released from hospital and may need physical therapy. Wright arraigned and jailed on bail. Sushereba released on appearance ticket.
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Fulton
Kayleana Sushereba
Jeremy Wright
Leitch Street
Sushereba
Golisano Children’s Hospital
Syracuse
Wright
Fulton Police Department
Fulton City
Oswego County Correctional Facility
Fulton City Court
Fulton district trims budget gap with staff cuts
Fulton schools superintendent William Lynch presented a 2015 2016 budget draft of 68.6 million dollars, up 1.98 percent, with a local tax levy cap of 1.75 percent. State aid boosted funds, narrowing a 1.4 million deficit to about 400 thousand. The plan relies on staffing and maintenance cuts, including three elementary positions and reallocation due to falling enrollment at Volney Elementary.
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Fulton - Fulton
William Lynch
District Board of Education
Trators
Lynch
Fulton
Ing
Fulton-area
Christine Plath
Volney
Plath
Oswego approves planning phase for Green Gateway project
Oswego moves into design stage of a West First Street green infrastructure plan to cut storm water runoff and beautify the port city entrance. Mayor Gillen to sign a DEC grant contract for 330000 and hire GHD to prepare plan and bid docs.
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West First Street
Ellen
Albany
Department of Environmental Conservation
Oswego
Tom Gillen
GHD Engineering
Eric van Buren
Robh Ward
Left and right join to call for Start-Up NY suspension
An unlikely coalitions from New York political right and left urge suspending Gov. Cuomo's Start-Up NY program amid modest early results and high marketing costs. The group spans the Conservative Party and NFIB from the right and Working Families Party and Fiscal Policy Institute from the left. In 2014 the program produced 76 of the 2,100 planned jobs, while spending $53 million on advertising.
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Albany, N.Y
New York
Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo
State Conservative Party
National Federation of Independent Businesses
Working Families Party
Fiscal Policy Institute
Capitol
Albany
Working Families Party and
Oswego and Fulton districts report high state exam refusals
Oswego County schools and Fulton district report high refusal rates for English language arts tests. Oswego, with 15.3 percent of eligible students opting out, and Fulton at 10.1 percent, reflect a statewide opt out push led by parent groups. Governor Cuomo's 2015-16 budget reforms spurred the backlash.
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Oswego
Oswego County
Fulton
Benjamin Halsey
Alliance For Quality Education
CNY
Andrew M. Cuomo
Man in jail accused of violating protection order
Oswego County deputies report that Timothy Bennett, 26, jailed for first degree rape and other felonies, violated an order of protection by making multiple phone calls to his victim from the Oswego County Correctional Facility while awaiting sentencing set for May 20. He previously pleaded guilty April 3 to second degree attempted kidnapping, a class C violent felony.
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Oswego
West Monroe
Oswego County
Timothy W. Bennett
Bennett
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