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Taco Bell passes first hurdle on road to Oswego

Plans to build a Taco Bell in Oswego moved one step forward, passing the City of Oswego Planning Board on Tuesday night.  Holding its monthly meeting at 6 p.m., the planning board approved the site plan for the fast-food restaurant,…

Wedding costs bruising wallets

Recently, another contributor to hurting millennials’ chances and opportunities for home buying has come to my attention: bachelor/ette parties. According to statistics from the wedding website theknot.com, an individual spends an average of $1,532 on just one bachelor, between partying,…

Puppy Bowl XIV highlights importance of pet adoption

Every year, a major sporting event takes place either on the last Sunday of January or first Sunday of February. That tradition continued this past weekend. It was not the Super Bowl, but rather the Puppy Bowl. This past Sunday…

Oswego tries drive-thru economics

No official date is set, but the city of Oswego will soon be home to a new Taco Bell location. At first glance, this may seem like a triumph for a city full of broke, stoned college students. Oswego and…

Safety inspections commence

With the beginning of every new semester comes fire safety inspections in all residence hall rooms and, sometimes, confiscation of personal belongings. Oswego State junior Julie Loney previously had a foldup table taken from her room by a resident assistant…

In the Office: Unfortunate weather calls for additional bus

Looking out the window to frosty and bitter winter conditions is a constant occurrence at Oswego State. Just the thought of having to walk from a residence hall like The Village or Seneca Hall is chilling to the bone on…

The First Step

On a bone-chilling February 1st, I looked at the calendar. It spit at me. It was just that time of year, and that day would soon be approaching.It wasn’t just that I had no relationship prospects, as had been the…

Staff Editorial: Little Donny’s Big Parade

President Donald Trump’s vision of marching soldiers, confetti and tanks rolling down the streets of Washington D.C. is slowly becoming a likely, yet unnecessary, reality. Last month, an anonymous military official told The Washington Post that Trump requested a “parade…

‘Man of the Woods’ attempts reinvention of Justin Timberlake

Rating 4/5 Stars This album is weird. Released on Feb. 2, Justin Timberlake’s 5th studio album, “Man of the Woods,” what is described as a pop album, is actually a music fever dream. Listening to this album is like taking…

2017’s best pop album disguised as Jackman musical

Rating: 3.5/5 Stars  Every once in a while, a movie-musical comes along that completely shatters our expectations of what a movie about people breaking into song and dance can be. Whether it be the 70s summer hit “Grease” that became…