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State announces Mohawk Valley workforce initiative and SUNY Poly semiconductor center funding
New York State has launched Mohawk Valley Empowers, a new three-year, $10 million initiative designed to strengthen the region’s workforce ecosystem and improve workforce participation by expanding wraparound services and redefining career readiness. The state also announced new funding for SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s semiconductor processing lab, according to a Tuesday news release from Gov. Kathy […]
St. Elizabeth campus reuse meeting set for May 7
UTICA, N.Y. — The second public forum regarding the reuse of the former St. Elizabeth Medical Center campus on Genesee Street is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7 at 6 p.m. in the Sinnott Family-Bank of Utica Auditorium at Munson, 301 Genesee St. in Utica, the city announced. City representatives, members of the planning effort’s steering
People news: AmeriCU CEO named to CenterState CEO board
ROME, N.Y. — AmeriCU Credit Union President/CEO Ron Belle has been elected to the CenterState CEO board of directors, the Rome–based credit union says. CenterState
ConMed promotes Beyer to newly created COO role
ConMed Corp. (NYSE: CNMD) has promoted Patrick Beyer to the newly created role of chief operating officer, effective immediately, the medical-device maker announced Wednesday afternoon.
Bassett Healthcare plans May 4 career fair with job openings across the health system
COOPERSTOWN — Bassett Healthcare Network will hold a career fair on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bassett Medical Center’s outpatient clinic, located at 1 Atwell Road in Cooperstown. Both clinical and non-clinical health-care jobs are open across the organization’s eight-county service area of Chenango, Delaware, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego,
SUNY Poly professor awarded $175K in NSF research funding
MARCY — SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Tarannum Shaila Zaman, an assistant professor of computer science, has recently received a $175,000 National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (NSF CRII) grant to support her project, called, “An Automated and User-centered Framework for Reproducing System-level Concurrency Bugs by Analyzing Bug Reports.” The research
Auction house opens for business in Utica
UTICA — Utica Auction House LLC opened for business with its first auction on April 13, bringing the first public auction house to the city. Nick Cavalier III first began thinking about opening an auction house during the pandemic when everything switched to online. He owns an auto detailing business, Clean Car Auto LLC, and
UTICA — Integrated Community Alternatives Network (ICAN) is expanding eastward with a new office in Amsterdam, the organization recently announced. The move is part of ICAN’s mission to “Keep Families Together” by providing individualized and non-traditional services to at-risk individuals and families. ICAN held a ribbon cutting with the Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce
Real Life Rosies pre-apprenticeship program celebrates graduates
UTICA, N.Y. — On Tuesday, April 23, Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY) celebrated the third and
Comptroller audit addresses lax accounting in Chenango County town
LINCOLN, N.Y. — Recent audits by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office found some accounting shortcomings in the town of Lincoln in Madison County, where a former town clerk was arrested for stealing from the town, according to the audit reports. The first audit, which covered Dec. 1, 2017, through June 1, 2022, found
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