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Our Lady of the Lake’s Meals of Mercy ‘a huge act of love and kindness’ The program brings food, compassion to the homeless and families in need A street ministry team organized by Our Lady of the Lake Parish’s social justice outreach takes a break from distributing hot breakfast, fruit smoothies, sack lunches, hygiene kits and water July 24. Pictured are volunteers Brad and Katharine Stoffer, Neal Olshey, Connor Olshet, Ethan, Moya and George of the Costello-Thomas family, Leslie Olshey, Matthew Backus, and James Olshey. (Courtesy Our Lady of the Lake...

Image from Oswego Health's website. OSWEGO – With a continued demand for primary care services throughout Oswego County, Oswego Health is expanding access to care and opening a second location at 98. N. 2nd St., Fulton on April 5, 2021. “Oswego Health’s mission is to provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of residents in our community,” stated Michael Backus, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Oswego Health. Before the decision to open a second location in Fulton, Oswego Health heavily analyzed the community’s need for healthcare services by condu...

WATERTOWN — At first, it appeared that COVID-19 would be nobody’s business in the Northern New York business world.

OSWEGO — For 40 years, the words “mental health services” here have been synonymous with the words “Bunner Street.” But not any more. Those days are over as Oswego Health takes its well-deserved position in the forefront of 21st century mental health services in its new $17 million Lakeview Center for Mental Health and Wellness on the old and long-vacant Price Chopper site at the northern end of East Second Street, at the corner of East Schuyler. Almost twice the size of the Bunner Street facility, the Lakeview Center will not only serve more patients, it will do so i...

First dose of COVID inoculation given Monday; Oswego Health says shots could arrive in county as early as next week NEW YORK — A downstate nurse became the first person in the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Monday as part of a campaign to inoculate front-line health care workers, and Oswego County officials are praising the development and asking for patience from the public. Onlookers applauded after a doctor gave registered nurse Sandra Lindsay the injection at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens. "I feel hopeful today. Relieved," Lindsay said after the injection, which ...