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Herkimer County IDA receives more than $9 million in funding for water-main project

HERKIMER, N.Y. — The Herkimer County Industrial Development Agency (HCIDA) has received $9.34 million in state grant funding for a key water-infrastructure project. The money is part of $279.3 million in Water Infrastructure Improvement and Intermunicipal grants from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to support nearly $900 million in projects across the state

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Grant helps Oneida Health increase access to behavioral-health services

ONEIDA, N.Y. — Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has won a $150,000 Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Member and Community Health Improvement (MACHI) grant to support increased access to behavioral-health services at Oneida Health. The grant will award the funds over a three-year period to establish services to address mental health, substance abuse, or age-specific women’s behavioral-health conditions of

CNY regions post year-over-year job gains in September

The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions all gained jobs between September 2021 and this past September. The Central New York subregions generated job growth ranging from 0.8 percent in the Ithaca region to 3.1 percent in the Binghamton area in the past 12 months. That’s according to the latest monthly employment

Lender Center to use grant for research into racial wealth gap

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The MetLife Foundation has awarded Syracuse University’s Lender Center for Social Justice a $2.7 million grant for research initiatives with a specific focus.  They’ll focus on ways to “accelerate efforts to address the racial wealth gap and help dismantle the root causes of wealth disparity,” the university said in a release. The

Greater Utica Chamber names Business of the Year finalists

UTICA — The nominees are in for the 2022 Business of the Year awards from the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce. The chamber recently announced the finalists in each of five categories and will announce and celebrate the winners at its annual Business of the Year Awards luncheon on Dec. 8 at Hart’s Hill Inn

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