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Tompkins County designated as “clean-energy community”
Tompkins County is the first county in the Southern Tier to earn the designation as a “clean-energy community.” It recognizes Tompkins County’s leadership in reducing

Honeywell executive to deliver keynote address at April 27 CenterState CEO annual meeting
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kate Adams, senior VP and general counsel at Honeywell International, Inc., is scheduled to give the keynote address at the upcoming annual
Syracuse, neighboring CNY regions gain jobs in the last year
The Syracuse region added 3,100 jobs, and the Ithaca area picked up 1,400 jobs between March 2016 and this past March. The Utica–Rome, Binghamton, and

Del Lago Resort & Casino adds charging stations for electric vehicles
TYRE, N.Y. — Del Lago Resort & Casino is offering eight new outdoor supercharging stations and two additional standard electronvolt (EV) charging stations inside the
SUNY Poly alumna makes $75K donation for scholarship in honor of her grandmothers
MARCY, N.Y. — A alumna of SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) has donated $75,000 to the school toward the creation of an endowed scholarship that
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Four Syracuse University (SU) professors will use a grant of nearly $1 million for a program to “support recruitment and retention of

Binghamton University professor wins $500,000 NSF grant to continue skin research
VESTAL, N.Y. — A Binghamton University professor will use a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue his research into skin. Guy

Frameology Optical settles into new space in DeWitt
DeWITT, N.Y. — Frameology Optical, a business that specializes in filling prescriptions for and fitting glasses and contact lenses, has moved from a space near
New York manufacturing index declines in April
The Empire State Manufacturing Survey general business-conditions index fell 11 points to 5.2 in April, its second straight monthly decline. The index also fell two
State fines Excellus $1 million for denying customers’ contraceptive coverage
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has fined Excellus Health Plans, Inc. $1 million for “wrongly” denying contraceptive coverage. A DFS investigation