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Fleet Feet Sports, Syracuse co-owner recognized
DeWITT — When Ellen Griffin, co-owner of the Fleet Feet Sports, Syracuse franchise, received her entrepreneurship award at the recent WISE Symposium, she told the attendees the local franchise had really evolved over the past 13 years. “I decided that we’re not in the running-specialty business, we’re in the changing-lives business,” Griffin says, reiterating her […]
Children’s Home grows, plans for the future
BINGHAMTON — The Children’s Home of Wyoming Conference (Children’s Home) says it provides safe and stable environments for children and their families while internally working to stay important to the community. The Children’s Home is currently in the midst of a strategic-planning effort to be proactive and adapt to the ever-changing demands of the service
RIT providing Lean Six Sigma training for Crouse & Welch Allyn workers, EMS providers
SYRACUSE — The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is again providing Lean Six Sigma training to a group of employees from Crouse Hospital, engineers from Welch Allyn, and regional emergency-medical service (EMS) providers. The training at Crouse started the week of April 15. The training and performance-improvement collaboration, which Crouse launched in 2012 with RIT
New dental practice opens in downtown Syracuse
SYRACUSE — Two Syracuse dentists, Tyler W. Mead and Christopher J. Zimmerman have teamed up to form a new dental practice, dubbed Downtown Dental Syracuse, P.C. The office of Downtown Dental Syracuse is in the University Building at 120 E. Washington St., in the same location of a dental practice formerly known as Zimmerman’s Downtown
Medicare Made Simple educates seniors about choices
SYRACUSE — She refers to herself as “The Medicare Lady,” and Theresa Cangemi is using her insurance background to help clients understand the many facets
State awards Cornell funding for construction project at experiment station
GENEVA — New York has awarded Cornell University $4.7 million for a construction project at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva. State
Chemung Financial Q1 profit falls 33 percent
ELMIRA — Chemung Financial Corp., parent company of Chemung Canal Trust Co., reported that its first-quarter net income fell 33 percent to $2.4 million, or
Baker named outreach coordinator for Ithaca Commons project
ITHACA — The city of Ithaca and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) announced the recent hire of Tammy Baker as outreach coordinator for the Ithaca
Destiny to get eight new stores in deal with international retail group
SYRACUSE — Destiny USA announced today that it would get eight new stores this year from retailers that are new to the United States. The
HUD to close Syracuse office later this year
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) announced that the agency’s “small” office in Syracuse will close “early” in fiscal year 2014, which
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