by Rob Tetro The Hannibal varsity softball team hasn’t had the season that it hoped it would have. The adversity that the team has faced throughout the season might have bent them but in terms of effort, they are far from broken. Chittenango delivered a crucial blow during the game’s later stages en route to(…)
by Rob Tetro Varsity track teams from Hannibal, Phoenix, Fulton and Oswego took part in the Hannibal Sports Boosters Invitational April 27. Of the 16 events the boys teams took part in during the meet, Hannibal came away with six first-place finishes. Phoenix earned three first-place finishes while Fulton and Oswego had one first-place finish.(…)
Walker’s Circus returns to the Oswego County Fairgrounds for two shows Friday, May 5 at 5 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. Walker’s Circus is a part of Walker International Events from Sarasota, Fla. The shows will take place at the Fairgrounds on Ellisburg Street in Sandy Creek. The circus will be the first of many(…)
The Friends of History in Fulton will hold its first chicken barbecue for 2013 Sunday, May 5 at the pavilion at Bullhead Point, Route 3 West, Fulton. Serving will begin at 11:30 a.m. and will run until all is sold out. Pre-sale tickets for the fund-raiser, which will guarantee a dinner, may be purchased at(…)
National Association of Letter Carriers will hold its annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, Saturday, May 11. Community residents are asked to fill the Price Chopper bag with non-perishable food item and place it by their mailboxes before your mail delivery Saturday. Letter carriers will pick up the donations and deliver it to your local(…)
by Nicole Reitz The Town of Schroeppel Justice Court has received a Justice Court Assistance Program grant for the 2012-2013 grant cycle. The court put together a proposal and sent it into the coordinator of the JCAP program. Schroeppel was chosen in January as one of 432 New York courts who were granted the award.(…)
Members of the Professional Journalists and Communicators of Oswego County will celebrate the organization’s 40th anniversary Monday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. at Vona’s Restaurant in Oswego. Guest speaker for this milestone event will be broadcast journalist Garrick Utley, who was named a senior fellow and professor of broadcasting and journalism at SUNY Oswego’s School(…)
Luther P. Dennison, 84, of Hannibal, died Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse after a brief illness. He was born May 21, 1928 in the Town of Hannibal to the late, Harvey and Ruth Dennison. He graduated from Hannibal High School and married Joan Perkins on May 8, 1954. He was a(…)
James Neil Arnold, 70, of Fulton, died April 15, 2013 at Oswego Hospital following complications from multiple strokes. He was born April 7, 1943 to Liberty and Irene (Wilcox) Arnold in West Point, N.Y. He attended Fulton schools and graduated from Fulton High School in 1960. He participated in 4-H and Future Farmers of America(…)
by Leon Archer Although it has been many years since I speared my last sucker in the cold waters of spring, I still smile thinking about the deliciously wet and frigid outings with my school days friends on Little Sandy Creek. The suckers would make their annual spawning run somewhere between mid-April and mid-May, and(…)
by Roy Hodge My mother always enforced a fairly strict dress code. Some of the other boys in my elementary school classes wore jeans – I knew them as dungarees – to school. My mother insisted on something “more dressy” for school, such as corduroy pants. I had “school” pants, “church” pants, and “play” pants(…)
