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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,
Lockheed Martin Owego wins $13M Navy contract modification
OWEGO — Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems in Owego has recently been awarded a nearly $13.2 million modification to an order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement from the U.S. Navy. This modification exercises an option to provide 105 mission-computer retrofit kits (101 for the Navy, three for the government of Australia, and

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

Chemung Financial posts strong sequential quarter profit growth
ELMIRA — Chemung Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CHMG), the parent company of Chemung Canal Trust Company, reported that its net income nearly doubled in the first quarter of this year compared to last quarter. Elmira–based Chemung Financial produced net income of $7.1 million, or $1.48 per share, in the first three months of 2024, up 87

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

New Energy New York selects finalists for battery-startup accelerator
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Four finalists will compete in the inaugural ChargeUp Battery Startup Accelerator at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator in Binghamton. Binghamton University, the
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