EAST SYRACUSE — A 25-year employee of East Syracuse Chevrolet has assumed ownership of the business, the automobile dealership announced today.

Gino Barbuto, who started working as a service adviser at East Syracuse Chevrolet in 1986, is now the company’s dealer-operator.

The New York state office of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has set state legislative goals for 2012 that include regulatory relief, mandate relief, and allowing companies to extract natural gas through hydraulic fracturing.

JOHNSON CITY — Dunkin’ Donuts opened its newest location today in a remodeled Xtra Mart at 120 Baldwin St. in Johnson City.

NEW HARTFORD — PAR Technology Corp. (NYSE: PAR) is selling its PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS) subsidiary to ORBCOMM Inc., a global satellite data-communications company based in Fort Lee, N.J.

Increased government scrutiny of the misclassification of workers, the outcome of the payroll-tax extension debate, and the Supreme Court’s decision on the federal health-care reform law are among the top 12 potential regulatory issues small businesses may face in 2012.

That’s according to Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX), a Rochester–area based provider of payroll, human-resources, and employee-benefits outsourcing services to small- and medium-sized businesses.

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