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Carthage Area Hospital has added speech-language pathologist, OLIVIA NIKITICH to its therapy services staff at Carthage Therapy Services, 1001 West St., Carthage. She is an

ABBY LUKACH has been promoted to assistant scout executive in the Leatherstocking Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), based in Utica. In this

SWBR recently hired JEFFREY SPENARD to manage the company’s Central New York operations. In a career spanning 35 years, Spenard has worked at several national
Community Bank System, Inc., parent company of Community Bank, N.A., has promoted DIMITAR KARAIVANOV to executive VP and chief operating officer of the company and

JENNIFER WHALEN has joined Fulton Savings Bank as a mortgage-loan originator. Whalen brings more than eight years of experience serving customers in Central New York,

VIP Structures’ growing construction division has added AARON DEVEREAUX as construction project manager. He brings seven years of experience as an assistant project manager and

Herkimer County Community College has appointed LINDSAY DONOVAN, of Utica, to admissions assistant. She most recently worked as a case manager for the Madison-Oneida BOCES

Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists (SOS) recently hired DEVON RYAN, M.D. for its Hand & Wrist Team. A fellowship-trained surgeon, he is part of a team of

RACHAEL JOHENGEN, D.O. has joined the medical staff of Geneva General Hospital as a hospitalist. She completed her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at

Cake Bar opens second downtown Syracuse location
SYRACUSE — Cake Bar, a local bakery and bubble tea shop that opened in The Salt City Market in January 2021, debuted a second downtown