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New York’s construction sector posts nearly 42 percent year-over-year loss in jobs in April
Construction employment in New York state fell by 167,700, or 41.7 percent, to 234,100 jobs in April from 401,800 jobs in the year-earlier month amid

Delta Engineers, Architects, & Surveyors
TYLER J. KOST has joined the Delta Engineers, Architects, & Surveyors (Delta) Endwell office as an assistant engineer in the firm’s Facilities Engineering Group. He
ROBERT E. HOSKINS, III has joined FLH Medical P.C.’s Keuka Health Care. He will be seeing patients in the Medical Arts Building at 418 North

JAMES BENJAMIN has joined NBT Insurance Agency. He will serve as a business development manager with a territory that includes the Otsego County, Schoharie County,

MICHAEL P. MURRAY has joined Tully Rinckey PLLC as the law firm’s chief marketing officer. The Albany–based firm has Central New York offices in Binghamton

ConMed to pay quarterly dividend of 20 cents a share on July 6
UTICA — ConMed Corp. (NYSE: CNMD), a Utica–based surgical-device maker, recently announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 20
Chemung Financial to pay quarterly dividend of 26 cents on July 1
ELMIRA — Chemung Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CHMG) recently announced that its board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of 26 cents a share.

Broome County hotels had just one-fourth of their rooms occupied in April, report says
BINGHAMTON — Hotels in Broome County saw a sharp drop in guests in April amid the coronavirus crisis, according to a new report. The hotel
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