OCSD leaders seek state aid relief as budget hurdles loom
OCSD officials, backed by Assemblyman Will Barclay and Senator Patty Ritchie, push for higher state aid totals as the budget heads to the Legislature. The 2017-2018 capital budget increases operations and maintenance to 5,089,914, with most growth in supplies and equipment. Debt service totals about 7.9 million for building debts and 820 thousand for school buses, with plans to replace five vehicles and seek voter approval for five more buses. District faces a 4 million PILOT revenue loss from Exelon, but reserves and a 2015-2016 surplus help offset, though not restore cuts. A potential Education Center sale may aid the budget, and a March 7 board meeting will review the instructional portion.
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Will Barclay
R-Pulaski
Patty Ritchie
Goeney
Goewey
Geeney
OCSD
Exelon
Nine Mile Point
Board of Education
Outgoing OFD Chief McCrobie to retire this week
After four months of looking for a successor the Oswego Fire Department announces Chief McCrobie will retire at week’s end. Assistant Chief Jon Change will serve as acting chief during the transition as several outside applicants are considered for the permanent post.
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OFD
McCrobie
Barlow
Jon Change
Change
Funeral services for Fred H. Perry Sr. held
Funeral services for Fred H. Perry Sr. were conducted at 6 p.m. with Pastor Wade Smith officiating. A spring burial is planned Thursday at Rural Cemetery with military honors to be accorded at Dain-Culli Funeral Home.
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Fred
Wade Smith Offiderick H. Perry Sr
Nan Funeral
Funeral services for Patricia I. Brown in Atlanta
Funeral services for Patricia I Brown who died February 13 in Atlanta were held at 5pm Friday at Dain Cullinan Funeral Home with Pastor Terry Nichols officiating. Burial followed at 10am Saturday in Pine Plains Cemetery Clay where Pastor Nichols presided at the grave.
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Patricia I. Brown
Atlanta
Georgia
Dain-Cullinan Funeral Home
Terry Nichols
Pine Plains Cemetery
Clay
Pastor Nichols
Oswego Downtown Revitalization With $92 Million Plan
Oswego leaders and Stantec review 33 proposed downtown projects totaling about 92 million in improvements including public art facade plaza upgrades and large housing developments. A 16 million state investment is eyed with 9.7 million in state funding later. Midtown Plaza Harbor View Square and other sites are core priorities.
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Stantec
McCrobie Building
Barlow
State Department
Midtown Plaza
YMCA
Old City Hall
Donald R. Hill Civic
Children’s Museum of Oswego
Cahill
Global Buffet
West First Street
Broadwell Hospitality Group
Harbor View Square
Art friendship at Fort Ontario shelter to refugee artists
Professor Saunders and Siegfried led art supply drives with Jewish agencies and the American Friends Service Committee to aid 24 refugee artists at the Fort Ontario Shelter. Exhibits opened in Oswego College galleries and outside venues by 1944, with museum exposure in Syracuse and later New York City. The project spurred an art school idea, stage design work, and a collage of refugee memories recalling Oswego residents’ generosity toward shelter guests. Safe Haven Inc. preserves the story of nearly 1,000 refugees housed at Fort Ontario, the only wartime US refugee shelter.
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Saunders
Siegfried
American Friends Service Committee
Shelter
Joseph Smart
Joseph Berger
Smart
Europe
America
Miss Olmsted
Fof
Syracuse Art Museum
United States
Fort Ontario
Syracuse
Thomas Crabtree
New York City
Richardson-Bates
Alan Saunders
Oswego
Peter Kuttner
Peter
Safe Haven Inc
Funeral services for William J Nickolas held
William J Nickolas, who died February 15 2017, had funeral services officiated by The Rev Steve Ingerson at Cullinan Funeral Home. The service was held at seven p.m. Sunday at the Dain location.
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Cullinan Funeral Home
William J. Nickolas
Steve Ingerson
Dain
Mary E. McGrath Funeral Mass at St Mary’s Church
Mary E. McGrath died February 13. Funeral services began at 9:30 a.m. from Dain-Cullinan Funeral Home and continued with a 10 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Church. The Rev. John Smegelsky presided. Pallbearers included Brian Ranous and John Rinaldo. Burial followed at St. Peter’s Cemetery with the rector officiating.
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Mary E. McGrath
Dain-Cullinan
St. Mary’s Church
John Smegelsky
Nichole McGrath
Michele and
Nic
Hole
Joli McGrath
Krystal Lawson
St. Mary’s Funeral Choir
Kathy Flaherty
Colleen Rinaldo
St. Peter’s Cemetery
Smegelsky
Brian Ranous
John Rinaldo
Michael Buske
Joseph McGrath
Caleb Goewey
Matthew Buske
Prayer Invocation Promises Grant Through Mary
A devotional couplet promises divine aid if a prayer is recited for three consecutive days and published afterward. The text urges Mary to be approached for assistance and asserts that the request will be granted upon completion.
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Council
Eric van Buren
Roth Ward
van Buren
Jeff
OFC
Parling Ve Flower & Gift Shop
Ethel M. Johnson
Ethel
Elyse Skiles
M. Johnson
Nelson
Oswego Town
Frederick H. Perry SR
Mt. Carmel
Star of the Sea
Holy Mary
Mother of God
Heaven and Earth
Mary
West Fifth Street
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