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NDAA sneakily steals rights

The National Defense Authorization Act For The Fiscal Year 2012 – don’t be too hard on yourself if you haven’t heard of it, because there isn’t a single major news network running a story on it, and those that have…

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Update: Police suspend search

The search for the unidentified man who jumped from the Utica Street Bridge has been suspended, the Oswego City Police Department announced Monday. The search will continue periodically along shorelines and the surface water as the weather permits. The man…

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Sheriff’s announce investigation results into Parish murders, suicide

Oswego County Sheriff’s Department announced the results of a four-month investigation into the deaths of three men in July on Wednesday. Three males were found dead at 1675 County Route 11 in the town of Parish on July 23, a…

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Into Oswego: Fort Ontario

  According to Fort Ontario’s website, The Friends of Fort Ontario, the Fort Ontario State Historic Site is being restored to its 1868 to 1872 appearance by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. In 2011…

Breaking: four arrests made in meth lab bust

The Oswego City Police Department arrested four people in conjunction to a mobile methamphetamine lab found Sunday in the Lowes Plaza parking lot off State Route 104. The city police department pulled over a 2000 Chevrolet Impala, driven by a…

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Oswego city police find mobile meth lab

The Oswego City Police have a suspect in custody in connection to a mobile methamphetamine lab found on Sunday. The police have not released the suspect’s name yet. The city’s anti-crime team stopped a vehicle in the Lowe’s parking lot,…

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Into Oswego: Safe Haven

Most Americans go through their entire lives never learning how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted 1,000 World War II refugees asylum at Fort Ontario. “Usually, their first reaction is they’re shocked they never heard of this,” said Kimberly Steele, three-year…

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Body found in Scriba

Volunteer searchers have found a body that Oswego County Sheriff’s investigators believe may be a man who went missing after an automobile accident in Scriba. Ray Gregory, 46 of Fulton, is believed to have been driving his 2009 Dodge Avenger…

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The Mind’s Eye

Oliver Sacks, widely known for his 1985 book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” is by far one of the best writers to deal with neurology. You might stop and think, who wants to read a book…

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The Talisman

Sometimes when you encounter a truly great example of a certain artistic medium, you are immediately aware of its greatness, and it leaves a powerful impression that does not fade. I felt that way the first time I saw “Goodfellas,”…