by Carol Thompson Smoking and adult obesity are on the rise in Oswego County, according to a report issued by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The annual health report gives the county a ranking of 38 of the 62 counties in the state. According to the report,(…)
SUNY Oswego’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program office has opened recruitment for volunteers within the Oswego City School District to help with the Driving Books Home program. RSVP encourages people ages 55 and older to apply who have a love of reading and would like to share this interest with children. Available assignments include a review(…)
SUNY Oswego’s RSVP is seeking volunteers to remove debris from the river and lake shorelines in Oswego as part of the seventh annual Clean Sweep, 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 21. RSVP, spearheading the effort to recruit volunteers on behalf of the City of Oswego and SUNY Oswego, urges all city and campus residents,(…)
The acclaimed new band Yarn will perform at the Oswego Music Hall April 14 at 8 p.m. Like its name, the six-piece band Yarn knits and weaves country, rock, blues and more into a genre-defying blend. Since its start in 2007, the band has become one of the hardest-working and touring bands around and its(…)
A Fulton community Good Friday Cross Walk will be held Friday, April 6 starting at 10:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Holy Trinity Parish, 309 Buffalo St., Fulton. This annual event is sponsored by the Greater Fulton Area Council of Christian Churches. Walkers will take turns carrying a large wooden cross in the downtown(…)
Family practice physician Esther Serwadda-Lubinga has joined the Oswego Health active medical staff and will open an office at 20 Canalview Mall in Fulton in early April. Dr. Lubinga is board certified in family practice medicine and most recently provided care in Manitowoc, Wis. She recently returned to the area with her husband, Anesthesiologist Stanley(…)
The Fulton Art Association announced the winners of the sixth annual High School Invitational Art and Photography Show. Eighty-six students from high schools in Fulton, Hannibal, Oswego, and Phoenix school districts submitted 108 pieces of artwork in 12 different categories. The show was created to help provide encouragement and guidance to high school artists and(…)
Kenneth C. Smithers Jr., 52, of Solvay, died Friday, March 23, 2012 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Syracuse. He was predeceased by his parents, Flora and Kenneth Smithers Sr. Surviving are his sister, Flora (Martin) Long of Fulton; brothers, Perry (Maryann) Draper of Syracuse and Thomas Draper of Oswego; his girlfriend, Jennifer Brinkman and her daughter,(…)
