In that time period, the SBA district office in Syracuse backed 86 loans totaling nearly $6.7 million, according to the office, which covers a 34-county area of upstate New York.

The Utica-Rome and Binghamton areas both lost 100 construction jobs during the 12-month period.

Part of the fifth and final round of Community-Based Job Training Grant awards, the money is part of $125 million awarded to 41 community colleges and organizations.

Trainor Associates of New Hartford designed a new website to help visitors plan trips to the region. It targets regional, national, and international visitors and tourists with an interest in Oneida County.

The funding will help launch "HealtheConnections," Central New York's regional health-information organization (RHIO), which is a policy-making body for the electronic information exchange.

LIVERPOOL — Usually, sister companies Contemporary Personnel Staffing, Inc. and Professionals, Inc. see their slowest revenue growth during the first quarter of the year.

 

That’s not the case this year.
 

Those operating small businesses today have seen some exciting and challenging changes in the marketplace that influence the way people live and do business. From the Internet to e-mail to blackberries and globalization, the business landscape is eve