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Owego awarded federal funding for flood-damaged road, culvert repairs
OWEGO, N.Y. — The Town of Owego will use more than $1 million in federal funding to repair roads and culverts damaged from severe flooding
Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce selects new executive director
UTICA, N.Y. —The board of directors of the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce has appointed Kari Puleo as its new executive director. She will be
MVHS moves respiratory triage service at St. Luke’s campus
UTICA, N.Y. — The Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) has closed its respiratory-triage trailer at the St. Luke’s campus amid a drop in COVID-19 cases
Businesses start the Be a Neighbor Fund to help Utica small businesses
UTICA, N.Y. — Four Utica–area businesses have launched the Be A Neighbor Fund, which seeks to raise money to help small, local companies in Utica
WellNow Urgent Care to add 300 jobs in four states, including Syracuse market
WellNow Urgent Care announced it plans to add health-care workers in its Syracuse market, part of its plans to hire about 300 employees over the
Oneida County hotels see fewer than three in 10 rooms occupied in December
UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County hotels posted an occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) of 28.4 percent in December, down 31.5 percent from a year ago, according to STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and analytics company. It was the largest year-over-year decline in occupancy in the county since July as
USDA awards Cornell University nearly $2M for food and agriculture research
ITHACA, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted Cornell University nearly $2 million for food and agriculture research. The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded the funding, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D–N.Y.) announced. The money falls under the USDA NIFA’s water quantity
Utica College offers students cryptocurrency- crimes training
UTICA, N.Y. — Utica College is providing its students training in financial crimes and money-laundering investigations through a partnership with Menlo Park, California–based CipherTrace, a cryptocurrency-intelligence company. Through the college’s partnership, undergraduate and graduate students had the opportunity to enroll in an eight-hour training course to become a CipherTrace certified examiner (CTCE), an industry-recognized designation.
Cree awards scholarships to SUNY Poly students
MARCY, N.Y. — Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE) has awarded 11 students at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) education funding as part of the newly established, merit-based “Cree/Wolfspeed Scholarship” program. The first group of recipients shared a total of $46,000. The commitment from Cree is part of a $2 million scholarship program over 10 years. Scholarship
Tioga State Bank demolishing a Binghamton property for future development
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Tioga State Bank (TSB) announced that it recently began to demolish a property on the south side of Binghamton that the bank
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