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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Owens announced he has been appointed to the Subcommittees on Defense and Homeland Security as part of his work as a member of the House Appropriations Committee.  Earlier this month, Congressman Owens was appointed for the 113^th Congress to serve on the influential House Appropriations Committee.

“As a veteran, I’m proud to serve on the Defense Subcommittee to help ensure that men and women in the field have everything they need and installations like Fort Drum are fully prepared to train the next generation of soldiers,” said Owens.  “Moreover, as co-chair of the Northern Border Caucus, I look forward to serving on the Homeland Security Subcommittee to further facilitate the movement of people and goods between New York and Canada.”

In Congress, the Appropriations Committee exercises authority over federal spending in every department.  The Defense Subcommittee has jurisdiction over spending for theDepartment of the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Office of Secretary of Defense, various Defense Agencies and the intelligence community.  This includes much of the spending at military installations like Fort Drum as well as department-wide activities within the Army. The Homeland Security Subcommittee has jurisdiction over that Department, as well as associated agencies like Customs and Border Patrol.

“This new role is an exciting opportunity to help strengthen important economic assets in the district,” said Owens.  “I look forward to the good work we can do to help create jobs while finding responsible cuts that will put America back on track towards fiscal responsibility.”

Northern New York Maple Specialist Michael Farrell is excited about the 2013 maple season. As part of a Northern New York Agricultural Development Program-funded outreach program, Farrell has developed tools to encourage producers and landowners to help Northern New York realize its true maple industry potential.

“For New York State and the Northern Forest region to increase its production of maple syrup, it is imperative that additional landowners become engaged in the industry,” says Farrell, director of Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest at Lake Placid, NY.

Farrell has documented the potential for growth in the Northern Forest area of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. He says on an average year more than 75 percent of the total U.S. syrup production comes from those four states, yet of the 640 million potential taps in those four states, only 6.3 million were being used for syrup production in 2009 – an overall utilization rate of less than one percent. Read more »

OSWEGO, NY (01/16/2013)(readMedia)– Alyssa Estus of Peru, a junior adolescence education major, has been named to the Deans’ List for the fall semester at SUNY Oswego.

The President’s and Deans’ lists represent the academic top 25.9 percent of the Oswego student body. To be included on the Deans’ List, students must have a semester grade average of 3.30 to 3.79.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2013, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2013 college guidebook “The Best Northeastern Colleges,” as well as its 2013 list of “best value” colleges and universities nationally.

A 151-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls over 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.

On the web: http://readabout.me/achievements/Alyssa-R-Estus-named-to-SUNY-Oswego-Deans-List/5325429.

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Regular Mtg Agenda JAN 14 2013

ORGANIZATIONAL MTG AGENDA JAN142013

By Adele Douglas

The Town of Peru has been awarded $235,000 Safe Routes to School (SRTS) grant for infrastructure and non-infrastructure elements to improve the safety of walking and biking to Peru Central School. SRTS  grants are 100% federally funded and are administered by NYSDOT.

The Town has been working to improve the walkability of the hamlet by expanding the sidewalk system and keeping it maintained throughout the year.  The Town was awarded a STRS grant in 2008 to build the sidewalk along School St.

For this round of funding the Town, the Peru School community,  Clinton County Health Department’s  Healthy Schools NY Program, the Sheriff’s Office and concerned residents all came together to discuss possible improvements to encourage students to walk and bike to school by providing them with safer and more direct routes to their school buildings.

Town Supervisor Pete Glushko stated, “The Town of Peru was very pleased with the success of the initial SRTS Project, the School Street sidewalk. We sought to provide the students with a safe avenue of travel to and from school each day and the grant funding enabled us to do that.  We look forward to working with the School District, the County and with concerned parents to further enhance the safety of the Town’s children and adults as we put our second grant funding to that purpose. With the current budget situation at schools and towns, being able to access Federal funding is crucial to making these improvements a reality.”

Funding will go to: Improve safety of the crosswalk on 22B; build sidewalks where needed on campus to keep students from walking where cars and buses are driving; install bike racks at all entrances and; an educational, in-school component, to raise awareness and encourage walking and biking to school safely.

This is what faces young walkers and cyclists heading towards the Primary and Intermediate School from the School St. sidewalk – a huge stretch of unmarked asphalt.  To get to the school they have to walk along  this busy vehicle entrance (student parking is to the right and buses enter here), in front of the bus garage (white) , the fueling station and another garage, all on the left. On the right up ahead is a playing field.

This is a school morning.   A student in a bright orange shirt walks in-between the parked cars.  A cyclist cuts close around the back of them.  Please note on the right a car (lights on) driving this way.  This is also the route of several buses as they go to line up behind the Primary and Intermediate Schools.

Once past the cars everyone just stays right in the middle of the expanse of blacktop.  For the proposed project, a sidewalk/striping combination will give walkers and cyclists a well- defined and safe travel route to the school entrance, hugging the playing field on the right.

This is the Route 22B crosswalk . A proposal has been made to install two rectangular flashing beacons that turn on via push button to improve safety at the crosswalk. However, once across, walkers have nowhere to go.  A proposed sidewalk on school property would lead children diagonally away to the left, away from the very busy entrance, then a crosswalk to the existing sidewalk ahead.

Other improvements include additional sidewalk connections on the campus and education for students encouraging  walking and cycling safely.

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