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Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum receives $45K grant to expand executive-director position
CHITTENANGO, N.Y. — Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum announced it has been awarded a $45,625 matching grant from the Environmental Protection Fund’s (EPF) Park and

Cornell University forms presidential search committee
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University has formed a search committee for the school’s 14th president following the death of school president Elizabeth Garrett. Jan Rock

Excellus asks customers to come forward to claim $2.36 million in uncashed checks
DeWITT, N.Y. — Thousands of New Yorkers have yet to cash more than $2.36 million in checks that Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and its parent company
People news: Cayuga Centers promotes Spieker to chief quality officer
AUBURN, N.Y. — Cayuga Centers president and CEO Edward Myers Hayes announced that he has promoted Nathaniel Spieker to chief quality officer on the nonprofit

St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center adds 20 beds
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center has added 20 beds. The New York State Department of Health approved the hospital’s certificate of need
New York milk production rises 5.5 percent in March
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York dairy farms produced 1.24 billion pounds of milk in March, up 5.5 percent from the year-earlier period, the USDA’s New
Mohawk Valley Health System to host job fair on May 3 at Turning Stone Resort Casino
UTICA, N.Y. — Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) will host a job fair at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona on May 3 from

Three teams advance to third round of Germinator business competition
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Three teams will compete in third round of the Germinator, which CenterState CEO describes as “the region’s most comprehensive business competition.” The

Alum’s estate donates nearly $20 million to Syracuse University’s VPA schoo
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The estate of the woman for whom Syracuse University’s Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building is named is making another financial donation to

IIABNY CEO, Poppa, to retire at year’s end
DeWITT, N.Y. — Richard (Dick) Poppa, president and CEO of Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York (IIABNY), will retire at the end of
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