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MINETTO — It would be easy to brag about 75 years in business. But the marquee sign in front of the Midway Drive-In, boasting its “diamond anniversary,” seems inadequate for an enterprise whose history some might consider the stuff of legends. It has survived — and thrived — in spite of a st…

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OSWEGO — Harborfest has hired a former journalist who handled public relations for the New York State Fair to help the festival with its publicity and marketing.

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OSWEGO — Marek Ptakowski rolls out of bed after 9 a.m. most days, but the SUNY Oswego student had to be up by 6:45 a.m. on Friday so he set four alarms just to be safe.

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OSWEGO COUNTY — The 10 Oswego County P-TECH students who faced expulsion for not being vaccinated have officially been allowed to remain in the program.

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OSWEGO — With its pool of pandemic stimulus money dwindling to about $2.5 million, Oswego County has set a May 5 deadline for applicants to submit funding requests.

HASTINGS — A woman told police that she went to her ex-boyfriend’s home to help him through a difficult emotional state but ended up being held at knifepoint and gunpoint and raped.

OSWEGO — Oswego County is ranked one of the least healthy counties in New York, according to a report by County Health Rankings and Roadmaps (CHR&R), a program by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

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OSWEGO — A new printing press will arrive beginning today to replace the one that The Palladium-Times has used at its 140 W. First St. building in Oswego for nearly half a century.

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OSWEGO COUNTY — The convoy of vehicles killed its lights, pulled onto the shoulder of the narrow road and a dozen men wearing helmets, bulletproof vests and military-style fatigues climbed out, taking care not to slam their doors.

OSWEGO — The Best Tasting Drinking Water in New York State contest involved a panel of judges who blind taste-tested and graded each competing utility’s water submission based on taste, odor, color, clarity, mouth feel and aftertaste. 

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OSWEGO — In spite of the return to chillier weather, and some snow in the air Tuesday night, Oswego still remains on track for its least snowy winter since records started being kept for the city in 1925.

The New York State Education Department is ramping up pressure on schools that use Native American mascots and imagery to change them by the end of the school year in June.

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HASTINGS — A man is accused of holding a knife to his ex-girlfriend’s neck, pointing a gun at her head and then raping her, the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office said.

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OSWEGO — A fire in the basement of a multi-unit house in the city of Oswego damaged part of the structure, but firefighters put the fire out before it spread to the entire house.

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OSWEGO — The county tourism department has been working for a long time to bring the state’s annual tourism conference to Oswego.

OSWEGO — As the Oswego County Legislature plowed through a long list of resolutions last week, one legislator was notably absent from his desk.

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NEW HAVEN — Opportunity is knocking on New Haven’s door. Town Supervisor Dan Barney is looking to answer. And the public will have its say at a public hearing on it all at 6 p.m. today at the town hall, 4279 State Route 104.

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OSWEGO — Officers recovered a loaded handgun Thursday after responding to a disturbance complaint that shut down a city block for several hours.

OSWEGO — County employees will receive stipends worth up to $2,500, an acknowledgement of the sacrifices they made during the COVID-19 pandemic and of the crushing impact inflation has had on the county’s lowest-paid workers.

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OSWEGO — Oswego police officers responded just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday to a house at 157 E. Fourth St., across the street from Dowdle Funeral Home. Oswego County 911 said the initial call was reported as harassment in progress.

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Rachel Clark, an Oswego native and 2010 graduate of Oswego High School, recently fulfilled a lifelong dream of competing on the game show “Jeopardy!”

OSWEGO — When the two Democrats in the Oswego County Legislature vote in opposition to a resolution, they can count on being defeated by the chamber’s 23 Republicans.

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OSWEGO — The Oswego County Legislature will vote today to appoint Tim Stahl, who resigned from the legislature last week, to serve as director of the county’s Department of Community Development, Tourism and Planning.