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The City of Oswego's combined funds spent $5,290,235 more than they took in during calendar 2025, according to the Office of the State Comptroller's fiscal stress monitoring data, after a surplus in 2024 and a deficit in 2023; the table below gives… Read more
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The State Comptroller's 2015 audit of the City of Oswego's community development work found that 37 of the 65 loans in its revolving business loan program were delinquent as of Oct. 31, 2014, with $1.03 million outstanding on them and $551,308… Read more
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Oswego's new law on electric bicycles and electric scooters says a device "shall be impounded" by police when a child 16 years or younger operates it in violation of the law, and riding any e-bike or e-scooter under age 16 is itself a violation, so… Read more
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The city's Administrative Services Committee voted unanimously on Feb. 17 to send the full Common Council a request from the mayor to amend the city's sewer use agreement with the Town of Oswego, extending its term from five years to 30 to line up… Read more
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At a public committee meeting on April 20, the commissioner of Public Works and Parks and Recreation told the Common Council's Administrative Services Committee that the city is "currently under consent order from EPA" to update its spill… Read more
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The Oswego Common Council voted 5-1, with one abstention, on Monday, Oct. 26 to authorize a $949,800 bid from GHD Consulting Services, Inc. for professional engineering services on the Ellen Street and Gardenier Hill Water Tower project, according… Read more
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The Oswego Common Council voted 7-0 on Oct. 13 to accept a $5,389,000 bid from Nardozzi Paving and Construction LLC for the first phase of the city's Lead Service Line Replacement Project, according to the meeting transcript and agenda. It then… Read more
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Oswego's Common Council authorized the mayor on Sept. 14 to sign a proposal of up to $90,000 from GHD Consulting to conduct a comprehensive study of the city's water and sewer rates, Resolution 302, which passed with no votes against, according to… Read more
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The City of Oswego owns a former foundry site on Mitchell Street that the state lists as a hazardous waste site, and the Department of Public Works uses it to store equipment and materials. The state Department of Environmental Conservation sent… Read more
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The City of Oswego's combined funds spent $5,290,235 more than they took in during calendar 2025, according to the Office of the State Comptroller's fiscal stress monitoring data, after a surplus in 2024 and a deficit in 2023; the table below gives… Read more
Oswego's new law on electric bicycles and electric scooters says a device "shall be impounded" by police when a child 16 years or younger operates it in violation of the law, and riding any e-bike or e-scooter under age 16 is itself a violation, so… Read more
The Oswego Common Council voted 5-1, with one abstention, on Monday, Oct. 26 to authorize a $949,800 bid from GHD Consulting Services, Inc. for professional engineering services on the Ellen Street and Gardenier Hill Water Tower project, according… Read more
The Oswego Common Council voted 7-0 on Oct. 13 to accept a $5,389,000 bid from Nardozzi Paving and Construction LLC for the first phase of the city's Lead Service Line Replacement Project, according to the meeting transcript and agenda. It then… Read more
The copy of Oswego's e-bike and e-scooter law on file with the New York Secretary of State, which gives the law legal effect, is missing one page. That page carries the lighting rules, the parking rules, the ban on shared e-bike and e-scooter… Read more
The City of Oswego owns a former foundry site on Mitchell Street that the state lists as a hazardous waste site, and the Department of Public Works uses it to store equipment and materials. The state Department of Environmental Conservation sent… Read more
The Oswego Common Council passed Resolutions 340 to 346 on Monday, Oct. 26 with seven yes votes each, according to the results announced at the meeting. They approved the minutes of the Oct. 13 meeting, appointed a Commissioner of Deeds, allowed… Read more
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The Oswego County Traffic Safety Board assisted six schools in the city of Oswego on National Walk to School Day, Oct. 7, according to a county release. Students walked from a planned starting point to the front doors of Fitzhugh Park, Kingsford… Read more
The Oswego County Office for the Aging is collecting meal kits for seniors facing food insecurity, according to a county release. Kits can be dropped off at the office, 74 Bunner St., Oswego, on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday… Read more
The Oswego County Veterans' Services Agency, through the Joseph P. Dwyer Peer Support Program, is offering two free events in November, according to a county release. A CPR, AED and first-aid class is set for Saturday, Nov. 7, at 9 a.m. at the… Read more
The Oswego County Early Childhood Alliance and the Oswego County Youth Bureau bought 50 new books on parenting and early childhood development and donated them to every public library in the county, according to a county release. The titles cover… Read more
Students in the Fulton City School District met and worked with author and illustrator Ben Clanton during a four-day visit to all four of the district's elementary schools, according to an Oct. 22 release from the Center for Instruction, Technology… Read more
The Oswego County Department of Social Services will host a virtual information meeting for potential foster and adoptive parents from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, according to a county release published by Oswego County Today. People who… Read more
The City of Fulton posted the final notice and agenda for a regular Common Council meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 141 South First Street, according to the city's notice as published… Read more
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UR Medicine Home Care held its first Run to Remember Hospice on Sunday morning at Genesee Valley Park in Rochester, WHEC and WROC reported. According to WHEC, more than 300 people registered for the 5K and a 1.25-mile walk, and as of 7 p.m. more… Read more
A grave-marking ceremony at Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield honored eight of the twelve Revolutionary War patriots buried there, WROC reported. The Mary Fellows Penfield Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution organized… Read more
The first Kenmore Kids Crawl took place Sunday in the Village of Kenmore, WIVB reported. Organizer Chloe Reid said buses took groups of children aged 4 to 12 between stops that included STEM and sensory stations, tours of the Kenmore fire and… Read more
Veterans on Honor Flight Rochester's Mission 99 returned to Rochester on Sunday after spending the weekend touring Washington, D.C., WHEC reported. The group included two Korean War veterans, one Cold War veteran, one Cold War and Vietnam veteran… Read more
In April, Ludva Klatovský set out on a 15-year-old Vespa from his home in Czechia to Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park to celebrate his sobriety, inspired by Jordan Poyer, whom WIVB described as a Bills safety, and Poyer's journey, WIVB reported… Read more
Albany police said an autopsy on Friday, Oct. 23 determined that human remains found during a search warrant on Tuesday, Oct. 20 were those of Ashley Carroll, who was reported missing from the City of Rensselaer in 2010, WNYT and WAMC reported… Read more
Gothamist, reporting for the New York Public News Network, said smaller and rural hospitals face steep cuts as consolidations spread, and that the candidates for governor are trading blame. The report centers on Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson… Read more
Buffalo police arrested Levar Chamberlain, 28, on Saturday and charged him with first-degree assault, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree criminal mischief in connection with a Sept. 27 shooting on Timon Street, WIVB and… Read more
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Twelve people were injured, including six juveniles, in a shooting near Florida A&M University's Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee on Saturday evening, shortly after the school's homecoming football game, according to ABC News, CBS News and the… Read more
The Archdiocese of New York and attorneys for about 1,300 people who say they were sexually abused by clergy agreed to an $800 million settlement of their claims, according to the Associated Press (carried by PBS and ABC News) and NPR. Archbishop… Read more
A fire broke out Sunday morning at a Pacific Seafood processing plant in Newport, Oregon, and the city ordered evacuations over concern that the smoke contained ammonia, according to the Associated Press (carried by ABC News) and Straight Arrow… Read more
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for much of the Four Corners, where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet, after rain since Wednesday caused rivers to surge, flood homes and force evacuations and water rescues, according to… Read more
Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Toyota have built a battery-like device that captures carbon dioxide from open air using electricity and a saltwater solution instead of heat, according to a study in Environmental… Read more
A 17-year-old at a Pennsylvania high school who was named homecoming king at a pep rally gave his crown and sash to a fellow nominee, a friend who was overwhelmed by the moment, Sunny Skyz reported. The student said he "just did what any friend… Read more
Ukrainian officials reported speed limits on SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield services in Ukraine in mid-October, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday the service was "still limited," CBS News reported. Secretary of State Marco Rubio… Read more
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Aleksandar Vucic, leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), conceded defeat late Sunday, saying "it is clear that we have lost these elections," as the BBC quoted him, while noting that final results were not yet available. Vucic said a… Read more
Gabon's media regulator, the High Communication Authority (HAC), announced Saturday that access to social media had been restored after a suspension imposed on 17 February, the BBC and Africanews reported. The HAC said at the time that online… Read more
Ukraine and Russia said Friday they had agreed to a ceasefire in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky, brokered through US first lady Melania Trump, The Moscow Times reported. Russian military chief Valery Gerasimov said Russian troops… Read more
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth, non-consecutive term in Sunday's runoff, the country's electoral court said, according to Reuters copy carried by The Independent, France 24 and The Jerusalem Post. They reported that he… Read more
Marine Le Pen launched her campaign for the French presidency on Sunday at a rally in Orleans, Al Jazeera, Arab News (AFP) and DW reported; Al Jazeera said organizers put the crowd at 8,500, and DW called it her fourth bid. "We are going to… Read more
Public prosecutors in Okinawa indicted US Marine Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, on robbery and murder charges on Sunday, The Japan Times reported. According to the indictment and other sources, the paper said, he allegedly strangled a 39 year… Read more
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Apple's Jen Simmons said in a post on the WebKit blog about Safari 27.1 that websites currently cannot extend behind the controls on the iPhone Duo's outer display and that Apple is investigating ways to let them, 9to5Mac reported. 9to5Mac said… Read more
iFixit published a teardown of the iPhone Duo on Sunday, and MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The Verge all reported a provisional repairability score of 5 out of 10, which 9to5Mac and The Verge said is the highest the site has given a foldable phone… Read more
Eight private keys belonging to intermediate certificates of eMudhra, an India-based certificate authority, were so weak that they could be recovered from the public certificates, according to Help Net Security and The Next Web. A researcher… Read more
Electronic Arts is closing BioWare, the 31-year-old studio behind the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, EA announced Wednesday, CNET reported. EA confirmed in a blog post that the closure comes with a decision to stop development on the next Mass… Read more
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Johnson Controls reported fiscal fourth-quarter sales of $7.1 billion, up 10% (12% organic), with GAAP earnings of $1.60 a share and adjusted earnings of $1.66 a share, the company said in a release dated Tuesday, Oct. 27. Orders rose 44%… Read more
SoFi Technologies reported third-quarter GAAP net revenue of $1.385 billion, up 44% from a year earlier, and net income of $241.0 million, or 18 cents a share, in a release dated Tuesday, Oct. 27. Adjusted net revenue was $1.371 billion and… Read more
Polaris reported third-quarter sales of $2,043 million, up 11%, with GAAP earnings of 66 cents a share and adjusted earnings of $1.08 a share, the company said Tuesday, Oct. 27. The quarter included $10 million of tariff refunds that added 13 cents… Read more
The Debt Management Office sold 4.5 billion pounds of five-year gilts on Tuesday morning at an average yield of 5.036%, the highest since 2008, the Guardian's business live blog reported, citing Reuters. Investors bid for 3.51 times the amount on… Read more
CNBC reported Tuesday morning that markets "overwhelmingly" expected no change in benchmark interest rates when the Federal Open Market Committee released its decision on Wednesday, after September's quarter-point increase. CME Group's FedWatch… Read more
FRED's release calendar lists the Bureau of Economic Analysis advance estimate of third-quarter gross domestic product for Thursday, Oct. 29, with the personal income and outlays report and the weekly jobless claims report the same day. The most… Read more
Initial U.S. jobless claims fell by 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 194,000 in the week ending Oct. 17, below the 200,000 that economists polled by Bloomberg expected, the Labor Department reported Thursday, according to CNBC and Bloomberg. CNBC… Read more
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Anduril and Qualcomm announced a laptop called BlueChip on Tuesday, with preorders planned for 2027, TechCrunch reported. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey said the laptop's bill of materials was about 90% U.S. and allied-country content, with a… Read more
Ripple and Robinhood announced a partnership on Tuesday morning under which RLUSD, Ripple's dollar stablecoin, will be a key stablecoin across Robinhood's digital asset business, according to the companies' joint release. The release said RLUSD is… Read more
The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states sued Dollar General on Monday, alleging in a complaint that the chain routinely charged customers more at the register than the prices on shelves, price tags and advertisements, according to the FTC's… Read more
Hydrofarm Holdings Group said Oct. 27 that it entered agreements with holders of its senior secured term loan and the loan agent to issue 27.5 million shares of Series 1 Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants for 27.5 million common… Read more
eBay said in an Oct. 20 filing that it plans to cut its global workforce by about 9% and expects pre-tax charges of $130 million to $150 million, mostly severance, with most recognized in the fourth quarter and the actions substantially complete by… Read more
Boeing reported a net loss of $116 million, or 26 cents a share, for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $5.34 billion, or $7.14 a share, a year earlier, CNBC reported Tuesday morning. Revenue rose 4% to $24.19 billion and… Read more
McDonald's said late last week it would no longer be an official FIFA World Cup sponsor, ending a partnership that began in 1994, Restaurant Dive and Marketing Dive reported. Morgan Flatley, the company's global chief marketing officer, said in a… Read more
Abbott said Wednesday, Oct. 21, that it plans to spin out its nutrition business, which has about $8.5 billion in annual sales and includes Similac, Ensure, Pedialyte, PediaSure and Glucerna, as an independent, publicly traded company, Food Dive… Read more
Fulfillment provider Stord has acquired third-party logistics company AMS Fulfillment, according to an Oct. 21 news release that Supply Chain Dive reported. AMS processes over 10 million orders a year for brands in beauty, wellness and… Read more
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Kimi Antonelli, 20, of Mercedes won the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday, ahead of Charles Leclerc of Ferrari and Max Verstappen of Red Bull, the Guardian, BBC Sport and Sky Sports reported. After the race Antonelli… Read more
The New York Giants beat the Houston Texans 27-21 in overtime on Sunday in Houston, the New York Post reported. According to the Post's takeaways column, cornerback Deonte Banks was assigned to follow Texans receiver Nico Collins and held him to… Read more
The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the New Orleans Saints 16-10 at the Stade de France on Sunday in the NFL's first game in Paris, CBS Sports reported. Sky Sports said Aaron Rodgers passed Peyton Manning for the third-most touchdown passes in NFL history… Read more
After the Steelers' 16-10 win in Paris, Aaron Rodgers said the NFL and its players' union once discussed a week in which all 16 games would be played in 16 different places around the world, with an extra bye week for each team, CBS Sports… Read more
Texas left tackle Trevor Goosby has a season-ending knee injury, CBS Sports reported on Sunday, citing multiple outlets. He went down in the first quarter of Texas's 34-27 win over Ole Miss on Saturday night, was carted off and returned to the… Read more
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Researchers at Virginia Tech's Conservation Management Institute, Jennifer Weber and Shawn Kurtzman, have fitted 35 monarch butterflies with radio-pulse tags weighing less than half a gram and are following them on their fall migration, according… Read more
Two men died on Sunday after falling trees struck them as Storm Boelo hit the UK, the BBC reported: a man in his 20s whose car was hit by a tree in Finchley, north London, around 12:40 GMT, according to the Metropolitan Police, and a 60-year-old… Read more
A study in Nature Human Behaviour, led by Asaf Mazar of the University of Pennsylvania, found that brief loading delays were associated with worse engagement and results on two online learning platforms, according to the journal's abstract and a… Read more
Pupils at Ysgol Cemaes, a primary school on Anglesey in Wales, put questions to NASA astronaut Frank Rubio in a virtual session on Wednesday, the BBC reported. Rubio, who is set to be part of the crew for the Artemis III mission, spent more than a… Read more
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Results of the phase 3 DeLLphi-305 trial, presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology congress in Madrid, showed median overall survival of 21.1 months with the drug tarlatamab (Imdelltra) added to durvalumab (Imfinzi) maintenance… Read more
The CDC reported 4,588 confirmed measles cases in the United States in 2026 as of Oct. 22, against 2,289 for all of 2025, according to its measles page updated Oct. 23. NPR reported that Pennsylvania had at least 1,338 confirmed cases in 44… Read more
People from Black, Asian and mixed backgrounds, alongside people from deprived backgrounds, were up to 33% less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer through screening, and up to 37% more likely to be diagnosed in an emergency, according to… Read more
NPR reported that a number of Medicare Advantage plans will not be offered for 2027, that 193 counties will have none, and that the Medicare open enrollment period runs from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. KFF, a health policy research group, said in an Oct. 9… Read more
U.S. health spending is projected to reach $6.0 trillion in 2026, or 18.7% of the economy, with hospitals the largest share at $1.9 trillion, according to a KFF analysis of National Health Expenditure projections from federal actuaries. Growth in… Read more
Actor Christina Applegate said Tuesday that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, NPR reported. She announced the diagnosis in 2021 and later retired from acting, according to NPR. MedPage Today's summary of its own report says she revealed… Read more
The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 5% to $28,303 this year, and workers' own contribution toward family coverage rose 9% to $7,471, according to the Employer Health Benefits Survey that KFF released Oct… Read more
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In the early 1950s, the Office of Naval Research paid AT&T and Western Electric to sink hydrophone arrays into the deep ocean floor along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The system was called SOSUS, the Sound Surveillance System. It cost billions… Read more
Speculator, New York. Population 406. The only incorporated village in Hamilton County, sitting on the northeastern shore of Lake Pleasant inside the Adirondack Park. Locals call it Four Corners because Routes 8 and 30 cross in the middle of town… Read more
I went on a blind date with Bigfoot. I need to talk about the caviar.
The Animal Welfare Act was signed into law in 1966 and has been amended six times since. It is enforced by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. It governs the treatment of animals used in research, testing, exhibition, and… Read more
The truth has been making its rounds, that the land bridge between Alaska and Russia was decommissioned. Not submerged. Not eroded. Decommissioned. The word you use for a reactor that has served its purpose and been taken out of service by someone… Read more
I have been reading the Shahnameh. Not the abridged version they hand out in survey courses. The full text, in a translation from 1905 that has not been updated to soften the technical language, and I need to talk about the Cup of Jamshid.
A committee sat down in 2003 and finalized a standard for how digital video compresses moving images. The standard is called H.264. It is used in virtually every video stream, every broadcast, every conference call on earth. And within five years… Read more
The Global Positioning System does not run on the same clock as the surface of the earth. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is published physics, corrected for daily, acknowledged by every agency that operates the network. The atomic clocks… Read more
I have been watching Etna.
They called it a base camp.