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Greek Peak announces PeakFest music festival
VIRGIL — Greek Peak Mountain Resort on Wednesday announced it will host its inaugural “PeakFest” music festival on July 18 and 19. The festival will
COR begins demolition and site-clearing work at site of Inner Harbor hotel
SYRACUSE — COR Development Company, LLC announced that crews are starting work on demolition of the canal-maintenance building at Syracuse’s Inner Harbor. COR plans to

Cuomo puts out his own top 10 list in honor of Letterman
In the aftermath of Thursday’s surprise announcement by David Letterman that he planned to retire from his late-night talk show in 2015, plenty of celebrities
State Fairgrounds seeks contractor to operate restaurants and catering
GEDDES — The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced the issuance of a request for proposals (RFP) for a contractor to operate

CNYSME honors Dolgon with 2014 Crystal Ball Award
SYRACUSE — A year after reaching the American Hockey League’s (AHL) Calder Cup Finals, the Syracuse Crunch find themselves on the outside looking in at the Eastern Conference playoff spots with the regular season winding down. The 2013-14 season has included what Crunch owner Howard Dolgon described as the “imperfect storm.” It involved several players

OCC starts Spadafora Memorial Scholarship Endowment, with help from Ed Levine
ONONDAGA — Onondaga Community College (OCC) has established the Vincent Spadafora Memorial Scholarship Endowment, to honor the memory of the professor emeritus. Spadafora served as

Syracuse Chiefs prepare to open new season on Thursday
SYRACUSE — Following an offseason that included a change in team management, the Syracuse Chiefs are set to open the 2014 season on Thursday at
Syracuse New Times to launch redesign Wednesday
SYRACUSE — The Syracuse New Times plans to launch a redesign of the newspaper this week. The revamp adopts a “modern, magazine-quality look and enhanced
Harris Beach launches collegiate-sports practice group
Harris Beach PLLC, a Rochester–based law firm with an office in Syracuse, has introduced a national collegiate-sports practice group. The USA collegiate-sports practice group provides a range of legal services related to the compliance and operational issues of running a college-athletics program. The nine attorneys involved have worked on these matters previously, says Brian Mahoney,

Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to host ACC Tournament in ’17, ’18
Syracuse University will return to New York City for men’s college basketball post-season tournament games for at least two years later this decade. Brooklyn’s Barclays
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