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Viewpoint: Clinton native serves with a Navy tilt-rotor aircraft squadron
Lt. j.g. Ian Foxton, a native of Clinton, in Oneida County, serves the U.S. Navy as a member of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 located in San Diego, California. Foxton joined the Navy four years ago. Today, Foxton serves as a naval aviator at Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 30. “I joined the Navy because […]
Meier’s Creek Brewing to develop Le Moyne College-themed beer
SYRACUSE — Meier’s Creek Brewing Company of Cazenovia will be developing a Le Moyne College-themed beer that will be a fundraiser for the school. The Cazenovia–based brewery will develop the beer that will be available for sale beginning in the first quarter of 2024. Under the agreement, Le Moyne will receive proceeds from 20 percent
Excellus awards Health Equity Innovation funding to seven CNY nonprofits
DeWITT — The Upstate Foundation Inc, Cayuga Counseling Services, and Le Moyne College are among seven Central New York organizations awarded funding in Excellus BlueCross BlueShield’s Health Equity Innovation Awards. Excellus, Central New York’s largest health insurer, awarded the CNY organizations $162,500, which is part of a total of more than $520,000 in financial support
New SUNY Poly president outlines plans for college
MARCY, N.Y. — He may be nervous about his upcoming first Mohawk Valley winter, but Winston Oluwole Soboyejo is anything but anxious about his new role as SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s seventh president. Soboyejo began in the post on Oct. 2, succeeding Officer-in-Charge Andrew Russell. After serving as a professor at Princeton University for about 17
East Syracuse, Binghamton firms win funding in FuzeHub contest
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Startups from Binghamton and East Syracuse won funding investments during the FuzeHub commercialization competition held on Oct. 16-17 in Saratoga Springs. The event was part of this year’s New York State Innovation Summit. Ashlawn Energy, LLC, which operates at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator in Binghamton, won the top prize of
VIEWPOINT: Automated Lead Nurturing
An essential tool in today’s marketing toolkit The majority of high-quality leads received through a company’s website never receive a response. Among the leads that do get a response, 78 percent take more than an hour to respond to. Research suggests we will lose a customers’ attention unless they receive a response in five minutes
MVCC names conference room after trustee emeritus
ROME, N.Y. — The Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) Foundation hosted a ceremony on Nov. 2 to name the conference room in the Plumley Complex at the college’s Rome campus after Russel C. Fielding, a trustee emeritus and 2023 MVCC Hall of Fame inductee. Fielding named the foundation in his will when he died in
Banker tells small businesses: look to us for resources
“There are a lot of resources business owners can take advantage of,” says Benjamin Conger, a business banker at Community Bank, N.A., which is based in DeWitt and operates more than 200 branches across upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Many of those resources are available right at the bank, he adds.
State pension fund commits $50M to NY small business investment fund
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Common Retirement Fund has committed $50 million to a private-equity fund that will support small businesses across New York, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, trustee of the Common Retirement Fund, announced Nov. 7. The private-equity fund will be managed by Hamilton Lane, which is headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Baldwinsville coaching business certified as SDVOB
New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 27 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including one small firm in Baldwinsville. The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification to James J. Muscatello, a Baldwinsville business that specializes
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