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VOLUME LXXXII ISSUE X SINCE 1935
Barlow brings home Oswego mayoral victory
Stahl elected 20th district Oswego County legislator
Tatyana Bellamy-Walker Asst. News Editor twalker@oswegonian.com
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On Tuesday night, hundreds gathered to congratulate Republican Billy Barlow on his win in the Oswego Mayoral race against Democrat Amy Tresidder and incumbent Thomas Gillen. A crowd of supporters in the Oswego Conference Center cheered and whistled for Barlow, 25, when the results were announced. Two months ago, Barlow spent his birthday greeting local business owners and residents. “You would think it would be a wild 25th birthday but I did some door-to-door getting feedback from residents,” Barlow said. “This campaign is a lot of work [and] at the same time I run a business. I went to dinner downtown and I called it a night.” On Jan. 1 he will serve as the youngest mayor in New York State. Barlow takes the title from, 28-yearold Ithaca Mayor, Svante Myrick, who was 24 when elected in 2011. Barlow defeated Tresidder with 56.2 percent of the votes. Tresidder held 43.8 percent of the voters. Current mayor Gillen received 97 writein votes. Humbled by a nearly six-monthlong process, Barlow, an Oswego native felt apprehensive throughout Election Day as the final day of the campaign arrived. “I was a little nervous as the night wore on,” Barlow said in a recent video posted on Facebook. “I got a good night’s sleep. I was laying in bed last night...and we hit a bunch of doors. All of our I’s were dotted and T’s were crossed.”
Voters went to the polls on Tuesday to elect the new Oswego County 20th District County Legislator. Republican Tim Stahl beat out Democrat Laura Brazak, 409 votes to 259 votes, respectively. Stahl brought in 61.2 percent of the votes. According to Stahl, this was the largest voter turnout in the last four general elections, with 160 more voters coming out to vote than in the 2013 election. “I think it is because both candidates spent countless hours engaging our community over the last few months,” Stahl said. “It is great to see so many exercising their right to vote.” Brazak was also surprised, yet pleased, by the voter turnout. “Although it was still quite low, around 20 percent, I’m surprised that it was so high given that it was an off-year election,” Brazak said. Despite the outcome of the election, Brazak, whose campaign focused on long-term strategic planning and smart, sustainable growth for Oswego, plans to stay involved in local politics. “The county has been under Republican control for decades and we rank dead last on a matrix of different health and socio-economic indicators and we’ve got the highest unemployment rate in the state,” Brazak said. “I guess we start laying the groundwork for the next election now.” Moving forward, Stahl is “excited to hit the ground running.” He plans on using these next two months before he officially takes office to attend legislative meetings and begin meeting oneElijah Vary | The Oswegonian
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Student arrested on rape, sexual abuse charges, out on bail After University Police Department investigation, freshman found to have sexually assaulted female on campus JoAnn DeLauter News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com
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A first year Oswego State student has been accused of raping a female freshman student on Oct. 25 in Funnelle Hall. According to University Police Chief John Rossi, the suspect is currently out on bail. Cayuga Hall resident Adarsha Budhathoki, 18, of Brewster, New York, was
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arrested for third-degree rape, seconddegree unlawful imprisonment and thirddegree sexual abuse. According to Rossi, the two people involved in this case were originally acquaintances and there were no drugs or alcohol involved. After the victim reported the incident on Oct. 25, University Police started an investigation resulting in Budhathoki’s arrest four days later. Rossi confirmed that Bud-
hathoki was the main suspect when it was initially reported. “We did a lot of background investigations, we re-interviewed the victim and took a written statement from the victim,” Rossi said. “We had to question other people that had information that would be helpful to the prosecution, so we wanted to gather all of that information first before we confronted the suspect.” According to Rossi, the suspect is al-
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leged to have restrained the victim, preventing her from leaving, which resulted in the charge of unlawful imprisonment in the second degree. The suspect is also accused of committing other sexual acts that the victim did not consent to and therefore was charged with sexual abuse in the third degree. University Police conducted a criminal history search and the suspect did not have criminal history reported in New
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York State or the United States and they declared that he wasn’t a danger to the campus. Oswego State President Deborah Stanley sent an email to the student body on Oct. 30 in response to the sexual assault incident. “We are deeply concerned about the reported sexual assault on our campus this week,” Stanley wrote. “Our University Police conducted the investigation with care and dedication to the safety of our students and
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