New York farms produced 108 million eggs in April, up 2 percent from the year-ago period, according to Blair Smith, state statistician at the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced the Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by five percent annually over the next five years.

ALFRED — W. Richard Stephens, Jr., the current provost at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., will join the administrative team at Alfred University as provost and vice president for academic affairs, effective July 1.