The Oswego High School Visual Ensemble will host the annual Snowflake Spectacular this Saturday evening, March 9, at Powers Gym at the Frederick Leighton Elementary School.
Editor's Note: I Heart Oswego invites you to enjoy an article pulled right from the pages of Oswego's own award-winning Oswego High School Buccaneer Bulletin. The publication recently received 13 Gold medals at the 2012 Empire State School Press Association. Written by co-managing editor Chloe Martin, who was a recipient of a "Silver" award by the ESSA, this article appeared in the February 2013 issue of the Buccaneer Bulletin. "We try to have current events not only in school, but in the community so people throughout the community will be interested in reading our newspaper," Martin said.
The Oswego City School District Board of Education met on Tuesday, Feb. 26 for its regularly scheduled meeting at the Education Center.
Oswego City School District Superintendent of Schools Ben Halsey addressed the 2014-15 budget situation during the Tuesday night Board of Education meeting.
The `Class of 2013` will be inducted into the Oswego High School Athletic Hall of Fame this Saturday, April 26 at the Oswego County Club. The Oswego Buccaneer Boosters Club continues its support of the Hall of Fame as the sixth class will be introduced and inducted as members will have their plaques placed on the `Wall of Fame` in the Oswego High School lobby.
This time of year, which is a season of fresh air, new growth, and our emergence from winter hibernation has also become `budget season` for public schools. Financial plans for public schools are built on a delicate balance between reasonable expenditures, and revenue from state aid and taxes. The balance produces an academic and extra-curricular program in well maintained facilities that a community can support and be proud of. When that balance is not struck and expenditures do not match your revenue, the difficult task begins. In the nine years I have served as a Superintendent of Schools, I have to say this season has proven to be the most difficult.
First-grade classes at Minetto Elementary School have been working on a service project to send homemade cookies to troops in Afghanistan.
Head Start Pre-K will be holding Community Awareness Day at each of its centers in early March. The program invites prospective parents, families, community members, public leaders, and schools to visit one of the eight centers throughout Oswego County.
The boys' hockey team season ended abruptly on Saturday afternoon at the Utica Auditorium.
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