Institute gets $35K grant for work with SU Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans

SYRACUSE - The Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust (DAV) has granted the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) $35,000 to continue its partnership with the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (SU) to conduct the

Syracuse nonprofit to receive $2 million in economic-stimulus funding

SYRACUSE - The U.S. Treasury Department selected Home HeadQuarters, Inc. of Syracuse as one of 59 organizations nationwide to receive economic-stimulus funding, the office of U.S. Representative Daniel Maffei (D-DeWitt) announced Tuesday.

The $2

Colgate, five other upstate colleges team up to explore cost savings

HAMILTON - Six private liberal-arts colleges across upstate New York have joined forces to share ideas about how to work together to reduce costs amid the difficult economic climate.

Colgate University in Hamilton, Hamilton College in Clinton, St.

Upstate consumer confidence slides as gas prices rise

Higher gas prices were to blame for a dip in Upstate consumer confidence in June, according to the latest monthly survey from the Siena (College) Research Institute (SRI).

The overall consumer confidence level among Upstate respondents dropped 4.3

Bleach factory headed to Sherrill

SHERRILL - Frankfort's loss could be Sherrill's gain as Tibro Water Technologies looks to build a bleach-production plant in the city.

On June 30, the New York Power Authority approved an allocation of low-cost hydropower to Sherrill to support

Upstate Shredding at the top of the heap

OWEGO - A far cry from the art gallery he ran in New York City for seven years as a very young man, Adam Weitsman founded Upstate Shredding LLC in 1996.

Over the past 13 years, Upstate Shredding has grown to be the largest privately owned scrap