Out of this world reading at Minetto Elementary School
Minetto Elementary School kicks off its PARP program with the theme May the Reading Be With You. Daily Star Wars facts are read each morning, with school-wide bulletin boards, decorating, writing, and trivia contests. Classes achieving 100 percent participation win a make your own sundae party.
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Minetto Elementary
New York audit flags 2.45M in workers camp claims
New York auditors found 206 improper workers compensation and medical benefit claims totaling 1.85 million plus 417 duplicate claims worth 1.6 million paid over two years. 66 refunds totaling 220,000 have been issued. Board reviews show duplicates were only 0.2 percent of 1.69 billion in payment requests. Police arrest about two dozen for selling fake tickets to Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, using harbor ferry tickets. several hawkers are parolees and three businesses run by parolees.
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Albany
New York
Comptroller's Office
Workers Compensation Board
Robert Beloten
New York City
Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
New York Times
Dateline NBC to Air Heidi Allen Case Tonight
Oswego County case returns to television as Dateline NBC presents a 10 p.m. episode on the 1994 abduction of Heidi Allen, the ensuing two-decade search, and the legal battle between prosecutors and Gary Thibodeau, who remains in prison on a 25 to life sentence after his 1995 conviction for kidnapping and presumed death. The program recounts hearings in 2015, claims of new evidence and alleged suppressed exculpatory material, and interviews with key players including Tonya Priest and Lisa Peebles, outlining the two women at the story’s center and the drive for new judicial review.
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Oswego
Dateline
NBC
Heidi Allen
Oswego County
Allen
Gary
Thibodeau
Rochester
New Haven
Cording
Dennis Murphy
Ritchie promotes collaboration at Oswego Fulton chamber roundtable
State Senator Patty Ritchie spoke at a Greater Oswego Fulton Chamber of Commerce discussion in Fulton focusing on cooperation with state agencies and aiding constituents. She highlighted issues like rural schools, farming, and the future of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant amid talks involving Entergy Nine Mile Point Exelon and the Indian Point dispute.
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Ryan Franklin
Greater Oswego-Fulton
Ritchie Touts
Chamber of Commerce
Fulton
Patty Ritchie
Entergy
Governor’s Office
Indian Point
FitzPatrick
Former Mexico town judge indicted in fatal DWI crash
OSWEGO The former Mexico town judge faces multiple felony charges after a March 26 fatal one vehicle crash. Douglas B. Horton 51 of Mexico is to be arraigned in Oswego County Supreme Court on second degree manslaughter first and second degree vehicular manslaughter third degree assault aggravated driving while intoxicated and driving while intoxicated. The crash in Rowe Road Mexico killed Michael J. Fredette 51 of Oswego. Horton Holden and Henderson were in the vehicle. initial statements described drinking and deer avoidance with conflicting accounts.
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Oswego
Mexico Town
Douglas B. Horton
Mexico
Oswego County
Supreme Court
Horton
Michael J. Fredette
Fredette
Danielle Holden
Ashley E. Henderson
Rowe Road
Oswego Forms 14 Member Downtown Revitalization Committee
Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow announced a 14 member committee of stakeholders to prepare the city's pitch for Gov Cuomo's Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The effort seeks a $10 million state investment to spark downtown growth, job creation, and livability with support from the REDC and local groups.
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Oswego
Andrew Cuomo
Billy Barlow
Central
Momen
Tum
Barlow
Cuomo
State of New York
Oswego Renaissance Association
Oswego County Land Bank Corporation
West First Street
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