Weather Headlines:
- High Winds and Showers Throughout the Day
- Cooler and Dry Tuesday
- Mild and Calm Wednesday
Clearing skies expected late afternoon tonight accompanied by a drop in temperatures.
Lows Tonight:
- Oswego: 37℉
- Fulton: 36℉
- Syracuse: 36℉
Gusty west winds 30 to 40 mph overnight tonight with gusts up to 55 mph in the evening. Partly cloudy skies on Tuesday with modest west winds 15 to 20 mph.
Highs Tomorrow:
- Oswego: 45℉
- Fulton: 45℉
- Syracuse: 48℉
Cooler with highs in the mid 40s. Slight chance of showers early Wednesday morning with light winds throughout the day 5-10 MPH.
Stay tuned to WTOP10 News for more updates.
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SUNY Oswego ends the two-week pause, but restrictions remain. Surveillance testing will continue.
Left to right; Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow, SUNY Oswego President Deborah Stanley, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras, Oswego County Administrator Phil Church OSWEGO,NY- SUNY Oswego President Deborah Stanley says the campus can now transition back to in-person classes starting Monday. She says the campus has successfully slowed the spread of COVID-19. However, the only change permitted will be the transition to in-person classes.
This means students, on or off-campus, are still expected to limit their movements for essential purposes only. Student clubs and organizations cannot hold meetings in person. On-campus students cannot host visitors in their residence halls, including students from other dorms. The dining halls will still be takeout only.
All outlines in the SUNY-wide emergency directive will continue to be enforced at SUNY Oswego. The directive says a student’s card access can be revoked if a student fails to fill out their health screening or fails to take a mandatory COVID test, At a press conference today, President Stanley says no such issue has been brought to her attention where a student forgets to fill out their health screening or failed to take a test.
Oswego County Administrator Phil Church says the Oswego County Health Department approved SUNY Oswego’s decision to continue in-person classes. SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras praised the effort between the college and the community to contain the virus.
Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow says only one mass gathering was broken up during the two week pause.
According to SUNY Oswego’s COVID-19 dashboard, there are only 28 active cases of COVID-19 in the campus community and 30 counting towards the NYS-remote learning threshold.
Stanley says the school will continue surveillence testing which will take place every three weeks.
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Syracuse Police Receive Funds for Body Cameras
SYRACUSE, NY >> The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a grant for $117,888 to Syracuse. The grant is specifically geared towards the sole purpose of equipping the police with body cameras for a pilot program.
However, the city of Syracuse will only be using half of that grant to buy ten police cameras. Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner held a press conference this morning and said that the city of Syracuse will be working with the Department of Justice on how to implement this batch of cameras.
Miner also talked about how the new equipment in the police department will be apart of a pilot program that could be used to justify more cameras in the future.
Miner compared this pilot program to the use of surveillance cameras in the city back in 2011. Those cameras had started to be implemented on the Near West Side for their pilot program.
“Stationary cameras also started off as a pilot program, and now people want more cameras and feel they’re very effective,” Miner said. “People will want more as long as we do it in a methodical and effective way.”
In the past the city has been denied from being able to equip its police officers with cameras. Rochester and Albany had received more than $700,000 in federal grants to equip their own police with body cameras at the time when Syracuse’s proposal got rejected.
These struggles led Miner to criticize Rep. John Katko last week for not offering more help to the city in its bid for the grant.
But with Syracuse finally accepting $59,000 from the feds they can finally look forward to new police body cameras. Miner says that the police in Syracuse should be wearing cameras by the end of 2016.
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Let’s Talk – program
by Jake Vanderbroek, WTOP10-TV
Students have a new program to turn to if they are stressed, anxious, feeling unorganized, or have relationship problems. ‘Let’s Talk’ is a Counseling Center Outreach Program designed to connect students by providing informal walk-in consultations with a counselor. This is considered different from counseling and is not a “clinical service.”
There is no formal intake, no appointments and no fees. People who have issues to talk about should take advantage of this new opportunity said Katherine Wolfe. “Students are encouraged to stop by and talk about what has been making an impact on their behavior. Once a connection is made and the process is exposed, it’s much easier to make a referral for formal counseling,” said Wolfe.
Sessions will be held every Wednesday from 3:30-5:00 PM in Johnson Hall Room 141 and from 6:00-7:30 pm in Oneida Hall (across the elevators on the first floor.) Additional sites, days, and hours may be added on other parts of campus.
