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Schneiderman: More than 100 car dealerships pay fines for missing recall notices
SYRACUSE — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says auto dealerships need to provide consumers with advance notice of any existing recalls on the vehicles
Summit Federal Credit Union to open new branch in Clay
CLAY — The Summit Federal Credit Union plans to open a new branch at 5201 West Taft Road in Clay. The location will replace Summit’s
Chemung Financial profit increases 10 percent in first quarter
ELMIRA — Chemung Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CHMG) recently reported net income of nearly $3 million, or 62 cents a share, in the first quarter, up
M&T Bank vice chairmen add duties following Czarnecki death
M&T Bank Corp.’s (NYSE: MTB) three vice chairmen have assumed the duties of former president Mark Czarnecki, who died Feb. 26. The executives include Richard

NIH awards SUNY Poly professor a nearly $900K grant for breast-cancer research
ALBANY, N.Y. — A professor at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) in Albany will use a federal grant of $890,000 in breast-cancer research that involves

MedTech president Crawford to depart the organization on May 26
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jessica Crawford, president of MedTech, has told members in an email message that she plans to leave the organization May 26 as
Vernon Downs to begin racing on Friday, “optimistic” about tax relief
VERNON, N.Y. — Vernon Downs announced will begin its 64th harness-racing season this Friday, May 5 after its owner said he had a “productive” meeting

CenterState CEO honors Chuckie Holstein with “first ever” Civic Leadership Award
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CenterState CEO honored Charlotte (Chuckie) Holstein with its “first ever” Civic Leadership Award during the organization’s annual meeting held last Thursday. Holstein

SU clean-tech startup, SparkCharge, wins grand prize in New York Business Plan Competition
ALBANY, N.Y. — SparkCharge, a clean-technology startup at Syracuse University (SU), captured the $100,000 grand prize in the 8th annual New York Business Plan Competition.

Honeywell’s Adams: Company has completed dredging and capping of Onondaga Lake
“14 years after my first trip to Syracuse, after hundreds of thousands of hours of investigation, design, and engineering; close to five million worker hours;