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Wednesday, June 05, 2013  The owner of the former Nestle Plant admits he engaged in illegal asbestos removal.

Friday, April 12, 2013  Facility was closed in December for asbestos abatement and repairs.

Friday, December 14, 2012  The Oswego County Department of Social Services is in the process of moving into its temporary location in Fulton. The Mexico office is temporarily closing while the building undergoes asbestos abatement. The abatement is expected to be completed in May, 2013.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012  The Oswego County Department of Social Services says it is temporarily closing its office in Mexico for asbestos abatement.

Friday, September 21, 2012  A Phoenix woman says she faces financial ruin because the Town of Schroeppel improperly issued a demolition permit.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012  A landmark lighthouse along the Lake Ontario shore in central New York is a step closer to being renovated.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012  For more than 75 years, the Oswego Lighthouse has helped guide ships in and out of Oswego Harbor.

Thursday, April 12, 2012  CNY Central has learned that Oswego County is about to embark on a large scale asbestos abatement project at the Department of Social Services headquarters in Mexico.

Thursday, March 22, 2012  Asbestos has been discovered in one Oswego County office.

Thursday, February 23, 2012  Crews are removing asbestos from Liverpool Elementary and Liverpool Middle Schools over Winter Break.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012  An Oriskany man will spend the next year on probation for improperly removing asbestos.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011  A New Jersey recycling company has been sentenced to pay a $500,000 criminal fine and more than $70,000 in restitution and cleanup costs for its role in dumping thousands of tons of asbestos-contaminated construction debris on farmland near the Mohawk River in Central New York in 2006.

Friday, September 09, 2011  An Oriskany man pleads guilty to violating the Clean Air Act.

Friday, June 03, 2011  The owner of a New Jersey-based business was arrested Friday, accused of dumping contaminated construction debris at a Central New York farm.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010  A Utica man was ordered to pay back the $18,000 the federal government spent cleaning up asbestos he illegally dumped in a Herkimer County field.