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48-hour Genre Film Festival
by Frederick PrinzivalliOswego, NY- The Oswego Film Club recently held their annual 48 Hour Genre Film Festival. In this event, teams were assigned a film genre and had two days to produce a film. The resulting short films were screened Saturday and awards were given to the best ones. These awards included audience choice, best performance, best editing, and overall best film.Brandon Cortes participated in this event and had this to say, “The film festival was always fun, of course its competitive, I’m competitive, my team and I we tried for it but didn’t win anything.” participant Brandon Cortes said. “But it was still fun to see everyone’s films and projects, everyone tries hard.”Cortes went on to explain his strengths and weaknesses when it came to creating his team’s film.“The most difficult was the acting because the acting, believe it or not, is actually the most important part of the movie itself because its better for one person to show what they have out there and whatever you have in your script, the actor reads off of that. They make the story come to life,” he said.For more information about how to get involved with next year’s festival, like the Oswego Film Club’s Facebook page or follow them on Twitter at @ozfilmclub. -
Former First Lady Passes Away
Oswego, NY — The Reagan’s journey from Hollywood to the White House has come to a close.
Former First Lady, Nancy Reagan passed away Sunday morning at 94-years-old. According to her spokeswoman, Joanne Drake, Reagan died of congestive heart failure in her Los Angeles home.
Former President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan met in Hollywood and were married March 4, 1952. During her years in the White House Reagan was the anti-drug campaign’s “Just say no” spokeswoman. Reagan was a fierce protector of her husband both during his presidency and after. During the attempted assassination of President Reagan, Nancy Reagan never left her husband’s side and took care of him during his battle with Alzheimer’s.
Former first lady, Nancy Reagan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and had a mastectomy. When asked in 2001 by CNN’s Larry King if she thought that fate had treated her badly, she said “No, no. When you balance it all out, I’ve had a pretty fabulous life.”
Reagan will be buried next to her husband at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. According to a statement, in lieu of flowers, the former first lady requested for contributions to be made to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation.
Written By: Kirby Socker
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Lakers win exhibition game over CCHL
The Oswego men’s hockey team started their new season with a win over the CCHL All-Graduate team by a final score of 3-1.
Mitch Emerson, Michael Gillespie, and Chris MacMillian registered the Lakers’ goals in the exhibition while Travis Broughman tallied CCHL’s only goal.
The Lakers went 1-6 on the power-play and were 4-5 on the penalty kill.
Oswego starts their regular season on Saturday at home against Elmira.
