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After two-week pause, in-person classes can resume with low number of COVID-19

After announcing on Friday morning that in-person classes would resume on Monday, Oct. 5, Oswego State President Deborah Stanley, alongside SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras, Oswego City Mayor Billy Barlow and Oswego County Administrator Phil Church, held a press conference at…

In-person classes to resume Monday, most restrictions to remain at Oswego State

After going on a voluntary 14-day pause to contain the spread of COVID-19 on campus, Oswego State has received approval to return to in-person classes starting on Monday, Oct. 5. Classes that originally began as in-person or hybrid-model classes at…

Students Face Unprecedented Circumstances in Isolation, Quarantine

With over 150 students in on-campus quarantine and isolation, the care for these students in unprecedented times falls on Oswego State and its faculty and staff. The college is attending to its students, offering daily phone calls, three meals a…

ALANA Conference Kicks Off with Little Rock 9 Speaker

The 34th annual ALANA Student Leadership Conference began on Wednesday night with a keynote address by Minnijean Brown-Trickey. As a member of the Little Rock Nine, Brown-Trickey made history in 1957 when she and eight other students desegregated public schools…

Oswego State Professor Presents on COVID-19

Peter Newell presented Science Today “Biology of COVID-19: Symptoms, Treatments, Vaccines” to Oswego State over Zoom on Sept. 22.  Newell is a professor in the department of biological sciences at Oswego State. He calls himself an “armchair immunologist” to not…

Week in SA

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Oswego Sub Shop employee tests positive for COVID-19

The Oswego Sub Shop announced in a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon that one of its part-time employees tested positive for COVID-19, as first reported by WTOP-10 TV’s Zac Case on Twitter. Sub Shop owner Bill Greene confirmed that the…

‘Abundance of caution’: Oswego State put on pause before 100 cases to contain spread

After the announcement from Oswego State President Deborah Stanley that in-person classes and extracurricular activities would be placed on pause for a 14-day period, Stanley, alongside SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras and Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow, held a press conference Friday…

Oswego State to enter 14-day pause of in-person classes due to COVID-19 numbers

With 82 positive COVID-19 cases toward the New York State 100-case threshold in only the first week, Oswego State officials have temporarily paused in-person classes for 14 days, starting Saturday, Sept. 19, according to an email sent from President Deborah…

‘This is our shot’: Oswego State places more restrictions, harsher penalties

After numerous concerns on Saturday about in-person classes at Oswego State despite 124 active cases, President Deborah Stanley has increased the severity of punishments and added several new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 on-campus. With the guidelines set…