Oswego County Holds Strategic Stockpile Drill With Scouts
For a fourth year the Oswego County Health Department ran its Strategic National Stockpile Drill with local Girl Scouts. Cookie cases served as medical supplies for potential emergencies. Other county employees assisted. A troop received 833 cases to fill a moving van while volunteers load pallets.
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Runaway Teen Found Safe. Cruz Ballot Challenge Dismissed
Oswego police located 15 year old Katrina Green unharmed in Ithaca on Monday after she was suspected of running away Saturday night with an adult named Mitchell Ellingwood. Tompkins County deputies assisted in the ongoing Oswego inquiry. In Albany, a state court dismissed a ballot challenge to Senator Ted Cruz, allowing him to remain on New York's April 19 primary ballot.
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Katrina M. Green
Green
Mitchell Ellingwood
Tompkins County
Albany
N.Y
Ted Cruz
New York
State Supreme Court
David Weinstein
Cruz
Board of Elections
Barry Korman
William Gallo
U.S
Alberta
Canada
Cuba
Senate
Texas
Oswego considers broad ethics code overhaul and board
Oswego's planning committee tentatively backs a revised city ethics code expanding from six to over twenty standards and creating a three member ethics board. Mayor Barlow pushes the change while councilors raise concern over mayoral power to appoint board members and potential conflicts.
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Oswego Planning and Development Committee
Port City
Billy Barlow
Board of Ethics
Barlow
Gillibrand pushes Fort Ontario Safe Haven national park study
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced a bill to authorize the National Park Service to study adding Fort Ontario and the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum to the National Park System. Including Fort Ontario could boost federal funds and tourism while preserving Oswego history and its wartime shelter legacy.
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U.S
Kirsten Gillibrand
D-Ny
National Park Service
Oswego
Fort Ontario
Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter
John Katko
Richard Hanna
Gillibrand
Katko
Hanna
Safe Haven National Park
Washington
D.C
USS
Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum
Safe Haven Museum
New York
Upstate Energy Jobs vows to keep fighting despite gloomy future
A coalition of Oswego business labor and community leaders pledges to press New York officials to rethink nuclear energy standards to aid Upstate plants after the FitzPatrick closure. The group reports ongoing multimedia advocacy to stress the economic and environmental impact of nuclear power in the region.
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New York State
Entergy
James A. FitzPatrick
Fitz-Patrick
Albany
New York
Upstate Energy
L. Michael Treadwell
Oswego County Industrial Development Agency
Oswego County
Oswego County Industrial Development
Treadwell
New codes office in the works at City Hall
Oswego officials plan to reestablish a dedicated Code Enforcement Department after years with fire and various officials handling duties. Mayor Barrow supports the plan, calling it serious and aggressive and aiming to quickly target blighted homes and troublesome landlords while making it accessible to residents.
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New Codes Office
City Hall
Benjamin Kail
Oswego
Port City
Barlow
Merchant of death dealer jailed after Las Vegas flight
Frederick W. Wheeden Jr., 38, described as a merchant of death by an Oswego County judge, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison after fleeing to Las Vegas while on pre trial release. He pleaded guilty to third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and second degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia. The judge also imposed a concurrent one year sentence for the paraphernalia charge.
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Las Vegas
Donald Todd
Frederick W. Wheeden Jr
West Monroe
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