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Ecologist to help Seneca Army Depot property owner develop conservation plan
ROMULUS — Deer Haven Park, LLC announced it has tapped Keith G. Tidball, Ph.D. to help owner Earl Martin in developing a wildlife-conservation plan for the former Seneca Army Depot property. In June, Martin, owner of Seneca Iron Works — parent company of Deer Haven, was selected by the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) […]
Cuomo: Binghamton, Ogdensburg sections among 12 new brownfield opportunity areas
Sections of Binghamton and Ogdensburg are among 12 new brownfield-opportunity areas in communities across New York. The designation helps participants develop strategies to revitalize neighborhoods affected by “dormant and blighted” properties, Cuomo’s office said in an Aug. 22 news release. New York will give projects in these areas “priority status” for grants and the project

Clarkson manufacturing incubator, Tug Hill land trust win grants
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, on Sept. 2 announced $1.8 million in economic-development grants for eight upstate local governments and not-for-profit organizations. The winners included these two projects: Clarkson University — Expansion of Manufacturing Incubator Clarkson will receive $250,000 to help fund conversion of Damon Hall into light-manufacturing incubator space, creating new spaces for startups.

Lakeview Amphitheater ticket sales top 200,000 in first season, Onondaga County reports
GEDDES, N.Y. — Ticket sales for the first season at the Lakeview Amphitheater exceeded 200,000, Onondaga County announced in a news release. The county was

Rome Lab awards PAR Technology unit $3 million R&D contract
ROME, N.Y. — The U.S. Air Force has awarded PAR Government Systems Corp. a $3 million contract award for research and development. PAR Government is

NBT Bank Syracuse has promoted KAREN D’EREDITA, branch manager of the bank’s East Syracuse office, to assistant VP. She has 26 years of retail-banking experience. D’Eredita joined NBT Bank in 2013 as branch manager of NBT Bank’s East Syracuse office after NBT Bank and Alliance Bank merged. She was employed by Alliance Bank for five

JENNIFER L. SPONG, an administrator at southwestern New York’s Cattaraugus-Allegany Board of Cooperative Educational Services, will become the new assistant superintendent for instructional support services (ISS) at the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES on Sept. 12. This ISS division assists 23 school districts in Central New York with a wide range of services. She replaces former assistant superintendent

M. Griffith Investment Services has promoted MELISSA LUCIANO to sales assistant II. She joined the firm in 2014 and is the executive assistant for Scott George, president and CEO of M. Griffith’s Retirement Plans Division. Luciano graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. After graduation, she worked in the Retirement Services Division

TYRONE BROWN has joined Preferred Mutual Insurance Co. as a database developer. He previously was a business-intelligence consultant, specializing in data management. Brown is a graduate of Bloomsburg University and holds the Microsoft certified systems engineer data platform certification. Contact The Business Journal News Network at news@cnybj.com
Cumulus Media announced that 93Q DJ JACK RYAN was promoted to the weekday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. shift, starting on Aug. 22. He began on-air at 93Q in 2013, while attending college, and has been with the station since 2012. Ryan grew up in the Buffalo and Watertown areas and is a SUNY Oswego graduate. Contact The
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