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Oneida County hotel occupancy rate increases nearly 8 percent in January
UTICA — Hotels in Oneida County saw a big rise in guests in January, according to a recent report. The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county rose 7.6 percent to 41.7 percent in January, according to STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and analytics company. Revenue per […]
ConMed to pay Q1 dividend of 20 cents a share in early April
UTICA — ConMed Corp. (NASDAQ: CNMD), a Utica–based surgical-device maker, recently announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 20 cents a share for the first quarter. The dividend will be payable on April 6 to all shareholders of record as of March 16. At the company’s current stock price,
Cornell’s Arnot Teaching Forest gets $500K from state for improvements
VAN ETTEN — Cornell University will use state funding of $500,000 for work at the Arnot Teaching and Research Forest in Van Etten in Chemung County to improve and expand maple processing and increase efficiency in operations. It’s one of two projects for which New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball on Jan. 31 announced
Deer Creek Flea Market & Campground: A story of perseverance
PULASKI — Sir Richard Branson, British business magnate, author, investor, philanthropist, and billionaire owner of the Virgin Group of businesses once said, “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” As concise a statement as that is by such a prominent businessperson, that statement is precisely what transpired with Dan and Debra Sidon
Jefferson County hotel occupancy rate jumps 18 percent in January
WATERTOWN — Hotels in Jefferson County saw a jump in guests in January, according to a recent report. The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county rose 18 percent to 36.4 percent in January, according to STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and analytics company. That snapped a
SUNY Potsdam professor seeks to protect threatened turtle species in North Country
POTSDAM — A SUNY Potsdam professor will use federal funding so he and his students can create safe havens at four sites in St. Lawrence County for “rare” North Country turtles. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded biology professor Glenn Johnson more than $477,000 to “create and enhance” nesting habitat for the Blanding’s
USDA report on farms finds slight growth in New York’s smallest farms
New York state had an estimated 33,400 farms, covering 6.9 milion acres, in 2019. That’s unchanged from a year earlier, according to a new report from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The average farm size was 207 acres. The number of farms with sales between $1,000 and $9,999 ticked up to 15,500 farms last
Excellus awards North Country hospitals funding for improvements
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield announced it has awarded three North Country hospitals and five in the Utica–Rome area a total of $1 million in quality improvement incentive payments in 2019. They’re among 36 upstate New York hospitals and health centers that were awarded nearly $30 million in the nonprofit health insurer’s hospital-performance incentive program. Eight hospitals
New $2.9M gondola opens at Lake Placid’s Olympic ski-jump complex
LAKE PLACID — The new “SkyRide” gondola attraction at the Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex is now open to the public, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced in mid-January. The SkyRide is a six-cabin gondola that can carry as many as eight athletes, coaches, officials, visitors, and items of equipment per cabin. It travels from the
Ogdensburg realtor, Stevenson, installed as new NYSAR president
Jennifer Stevenson, of Ogdensburg, recently took the oath of office as the 2020 president of the New York State Association of Realtors (NYSAR), the organization announced. The association’s inauguration ceremony was held in conjunction with its business meetings at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in Albany. A realtor for nearly 30 years, Stevenson is
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