West Monroe News

Jeff Parrotte, 24, of West Monroe is shown during a November 2009 taping of the television show "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire." He's seated across from host Meredith Vieira.

As you may be aware, we ran a contest on our TV stations at the end of February called "Weekend Getaway - " Breakfast with Wayne".A This was a short contest we put together with the folks at Greek Peak ski area and their new resort and indoor water park.

A 19-year-old West Monroe man was killed this morning in a head-on crash on U.S. Route 11, just north of Central Square, state police said.

Back in September, I wrote about the reunion of former Syracuse rock band The Swanks in my Music Notes column .

The Oswego County legislature Tuesday night approved the county's $185.4 million budget for 2010 that does not increase taxes and includes no raises for county legislators.

The New York StateA Department of Environmental Conservation A applauded a big environmental victory Thursday by announcing the completion of the cleanup of the Fortino tire dump.

State and local officials this morning said the three-year clean up of the Fortino Tire Yard, the one-time home of 11 million tires,is just about finished.

There were an estimated 34 million tires in illegal dumps across New York in 2004, Grannis said, posing an environmental and public health threat.

Oswego, N.Y., The Oswego County Board of Elections will count paper ballots for 10 races starting Tuesday morning.

West Monroe, NY -- No one was hurt in a fire that damaged one unit in an apartment building early this morning in West Monroe The West Monroe, Constantia and Cleveland fire departments were called about 1:27 a.m. to the building at 2793 State Route 49, an Oswego County E-911 dispatcher said.

Half of the Ouachita Parish Fire Department's budget is at stake on Oct. 17. Ouachita Parish Fire Chief Pat Hemphill is asking voters to renew a 10-year 19.11-mill property tax that generates a little more than $6 million dollars for the parish fire department.

A live Webcast will be available for SUNY Oswego's College Council meeting, at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept.

A Central Square man faces two felony charges stemming from a domestic incident on Sunday.