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Central New York Community Foundation selects its next president & CEO
Littlejohn succeeds Peter Dunn, who served as the Community Foundation’s president & CEO since 2008. Until Littlejohn assumes her new role on March 1, Thomas

Walsh says deer-management effort starting this week
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced that deer management carried out by qualified wildlife managers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will
A decade of the Taste NY program marked at Destiny USA’s CNY Welcome Center
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Taste NY — the state program that “highlights the quality, diversity, and economic impact of food and beverages grown, produced, or processed”

Workforce Development Board receives $500K for environmental-job training
UTICA, N.Y. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 to the Workforce Development Board of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties for environmental-job training programs. The agency awarded grants totaling $7 million to 14 organizations across the country through its Brownfields Jobs Training Program to help recruit, train, and place workers for community revitalization

Work wraps up on affordable-housing project in Ithaca
ITHACA, N.Y. — Work is complete on the 42-unit, all-electric, energy-efficient Marketview Apartments along the waterfront at 102 Cayuga Park Lane, according to a news release from Gov. Kathy Hochul. “This component of the overall Cayuga Park project will serve those most in need in our community” Ithaca Mayor Laura Lewis said in the release.

Crews start work on Utica apartment complex for artists
UTICA, N.Y. — A 43-unit housing development and art gallery is coming to downtown Utica, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. Construction has begun

Endicott receives grant for wastewater-plant improvements
ENDICOTT, N.Y. — The Village of Endicott has been awarded a $286,725 state Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) grant. The award was among $479 million in

SUNY Oswego graduate donates $2 million to the university
OSWEGO, N.Y. — A 1958 graduate of SUNY Oswego has donated $2 million to the school. The gift from Frank Maraviglia is “in recognition of

NYS gets $24 million in federal funds for electric grid
New York is one of nine states and five tribal nations that were awarded a combined total of $125 million as the seventh cohort of Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula grants and will provide 15 percent matching funds through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as part of DOE’s grant requirements. “NYSERDA is pleased to

Southern Tier researchers, companies lead the way to greener concrete
The average New Yorker probably doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about recycling or about concrete — or about how those two things could possibly go together. However, a group of dedicated researchers and entrepreneurs in the Southern Tier have been thinking about all of those things — and doing something about it. Their
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