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HCCC president, Murray, announces retirement
HERKIMER — Herkimer County Community College (HCCC) President Ann Marie Murray has announced her retirement after serving as the college’s third president for five and
SBA Emerging Leaders initiative graduates its latest class
SYRACUSE — Representatives from more than a dozen local companies graduated from this year’s Emerging Leaders initiative (formerly known as e200), a program of the
Gifford and Allyn Foundations jointly announce recipients of 2013 Leadership Award
SYRACUSE — Gifford Foundation board president Jack Webb recently announced the recipients of the 2013 Kathy Goldfarb-Findling Leadership Award. The Allyn Foundation has joined the Gifford Foundation in presenting the award, and in acknowledgement of this new partnership have named two winners of “The Kathy” this year. Randi Bregman, executive director of Vera House, and
Gallup: Majority in U.S. say health care is not the government’s responsibility
Polling firm Gallup reported Nov. 18 that its most-recent annual health-care poll, conducted Nov. 7-10, found that 56 percent of U.S. adults now say it’s not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health-care coverage. Before 2009, “a clear majority of Americans consistently had said the government should take responsibility for ensuring
A La Carte Business Services to move to new, nearby space
SALINA — A La Carte Business Services is moving to a new location across the highway from the office where it has operated since April 2012. The business is moving from 916B Old Liverpool Rd. in Salina to the Lakeshore Office Building across the highway at 913 Old Liverpool Rd. It’ll be one of several
Spark.Orange aims to solve business problems with technology
SYRACUSE — Spark.Orange, LLC, a salesforce consulting and web-application development company based at the Syracuse Tech Garden, makes its mission tackling business problems, like customer service, with technology. It does so by partnering with and using the software of San Francisco, Calif.–based Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRM). “We are a Salesforce cloud-alliance partner, which means that
Dave’s Hard Surface Restoration has only scratched the surface
WEST MONROE — After 35 years of working for someone else’s company, David (Dave) Ciereck is now operating his own business. Ciereck launched Dave’s Hard Surface Restoration, the “doing business as” name of Ciereck Enterprises, LLC, in July. He operates the business from his home in the town of West Monroe. He started the business
Downtown Ithaca welcomes two new businesses
ITHACA — The Downtown Ithaca Alliance and Ithaca Mayor Svante L. Myrick announced that two new businesses recently opened in downtown Ithaca. STREAM Co-Lab, located at 123 South Cayuga St., Suite 201, is an architecture and landscape architecture firm founded by Noah Demarest in 2012. It is an innovative collaborative design studio shared with Whitham
Chiefs GM Smorol hopes to revive baseball excitement, boost revenue in 2014
SYRACUSE — Syracuse Chiefs general manager Jason Smorol is busy preparing for the 2014 baseball season, and this offseason provides one primary focus. “It’s the business of baseball,” he says. And it’s an important offseason for the Chiefs, as the team on Nov. 19 announced a nearly $1 million net loss in 2013. Since Smorol
Chemung Financial declares dividend of 26 cents a share
ELMIRA — Chemung Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CHMG) announced today that its board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of 26 cents a share.
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