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Rosamond Gifford Zoo targets summer 2021 to open new $8M animal health center project

SYRACUSE — The Rosamond Gifford Zoo hopes to have construction of a new animal health center completed by July 2021.  The project is a $7.5 million investment, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said during a Sept. 10 groundbreaking ceremony. “This money was appropriated … in 2018 with the public-private partnership we have with our Friends […]

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New York egg production rises nearly 7 percent in August

New York farms produced 149.1 million eggs in August, up 6.6 percent from 139.9 million eggs in the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The number of layers in the Empire State averaged 5.68 million in August, up 3.2 percent from 5.5 million layers a year earlier. August egg production

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2nd phase of State Fair’s orange lot project wraps up

GEDDES — Crews have completed construction on the second phase of the New York State Fair orange lot project.  The effort was about “improving access to the State Fairgrounds and furthering the transformation of one of Central New York’s economic engines,” the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a Sept. 15 news release.  As

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$3 million awarded during GENIUS NY virtual Pitch Finals

[On Sept. 17], together with New York state, we announced Geopipe as the winner of GENIUS NY’s $1 million grand prize during the program’s first-ever virtual Pitch Finals. BotsAndUs from the United Kingdom; Droneseed from Seattle, Washington; Eget Liber from Syracuse; and Skyy Network from Australia were also each awarded investments of $500,000 during the

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RAV buys, plans to improve Salina Industrial Powerpark

SALINA — In August, RACER Trust announced the sale of a multi-tenant industrial park, which was formerly a General Motors (GM) manufacturing plant, to Jamesville–based RAV Properties. The Salina Industrial Powerpark features an 805,860-square-footage main building with a separate 14-acre shovel-ready site; the property totals 78.5 acres. The park currently has 13 tenants that employ

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CNY unemployment rates fall to single digits in August

Most CNY regions lost thousands of jobs in last year                    Unemployment rates in the Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, and Elmira regions dropped to single-digit figures in August but remained higher compared to a year ago amid the impact of layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

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Clarkson aircraft structure class to analyze WWII aircraft from museums

POTSDAM — Students in Clarkson University’s Analysis of Aircraft Structures class will analyze World War II aircraft that museums in both the U.S. and Canada will provide. Craig Merrett, assistant professor of mechanical & aeronautical engineering, had to redesign the course, since he’s teaching it this semester in an online format, Clarkson said. For the

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North Country Center for Businesses in Transition sets fall workshops

SARANAC LAKE — The North Country Center for Businesses in Transition (CBIT) has announced a series of virtual events to assist transitioning businesses.  The North Country CBIT is also using new resources that include a new website, which focuses on attracting would-be entrepreneurs to the region, a guidebook for transitioning business owners, and the fall

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Northern N.Y. association to use grant for new history center

WANAKENA — The Wanakena Historical Association in St. Lawrence County will use two grants from the Northern New York Community Foundation, Inc. (NNYCF) for its new history center, which it plans to open later this year.  The foundation’s board of directors recently approved $16,000 in funding for the Wanakena Historical Association. The NNYCF is located

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Jefferson County hotel occupancy hits nearly 53 percent in August

WATERTOWN — Hotels in Jefferson County saw another rebound in occupancy in August compared to the prior month amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.  The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county reached 52.8 percent in August, up from 46.8 percent in July, 33.8

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