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Excellus appoints White as chief administrative officer
DeWITT, N.Y. — Excellus BlueCross BlueShield announced that it has named Lisa White chief administrative officer and executive VP. With this appointment, White has also

SUNY Morrisville to add food and agribusiness master’s degree in 2023
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville announced it will add its first master’s degree in food and agribusiness (FAB) in a fully online two-year degree program

Lobdell family shares suicide story, donates $1 million to Oswego Health’s Lakeview Center
OSWEGO, N.Y. — The Lobdell family of Pulaski has donated $1 million to Oswego Health’s Lakeview Center for Mental Health & Wellness. The family also

Colgate University returns artifacts to Oneida Indian Nation in repatriation ceremony
VERONA, N.Y. — Colgate University, in a Nov. 9 ceremony, repatriated more than 1,500 funerary objects and cultural artifacts to the Oneida Indian Nation. The

Clear Path for Veterans, Southern Tier Veterans Support Group receive credit-union donation
ALBANY, N.Y. — Clear Path for Veterans in Chittenango and the Southern Tier Veterans Support Group in Vestal are among the nonprofit organizations that will

NBT Bancorp to pay quarterly dividend of 30 cents a share in fourth quarter
NORWICH, N.Y. — NBT Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: NBTB), parent of NBT Bank, recently announced that its board of directors has approved a cash dividend of 30 cents per share for the fourth quarter of this year. The payment is up by 2 cents, or 7.1 percent, from the 28 cents that NBT paid in the

Grant helps Oneida Health increase access to behavioral-health services
ONEIDA, N.Y. — Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has won a $150,000 Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Member and Community Health Improvement (MACHI) grant to support increased access to behavioral-health services at Oneida Health. The grant will award the funds over a three-year period to establish services to address mental health, substance abuse, or age-specific women’s behavioral-health conditions of
CNY regions post year-over-year job gains in September
The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions all gained jobs between September 2021 and this past September. The Central New York subregions generated job growth ranging from 0.8 percent in the Ithaca region to 3.1 percent in the Binghamton area in the past 12 months. That’s according to the latest monthly employment
New York milk producer prices edge down from prior month
Milk prices at the producer level in New York state remained elevated in the latest month as pricing pressures continued. New York dairy farms in August were paid an average of $25.90 per hundredweight of milk in August, down 3 percent from $26.70 in July, but up 42.3 percent from the $18.20 average in August 2021.

People news: Visions FCU hires new manager of talent acquisition and retention
ENDWELL, N.Y. — Visions Federal Credit Union (FCU) announced it has hired Julie Steele as its new manager of talent acquisition and retention. Steele brings
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