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Syracuse football A three-time All-American for the Orange from 1964 to 1966, Little famously followed Jim Brown and 1961 Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis

Cayuga Health to open additional COVID-19 testing sites in Ithaca, Cortlandville
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New York State fined noncompliant tax preparers nearly $4 million in 2020
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New director of security appointed for Tioga Downs, Vernon Downs
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Saab DeWitt plant wins $18M modification to Navy contract
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The December 2020 Zumper National Rent Report found the median rental price for most apartments in the Syracuse metro area was unchanged compared to the previous month, but down almost 6 percent from the year-prior month, The median rental price of one-bedroom apartments in the Syracuse region was $800 in December, the same price as
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The December 2020 Zumper National Rent Report found the median rental price for most apartments in the Syracuse metro area was unchanged compared to the previous month, but down almost 6 percent from the year-prior month,
The median rental price of one-bedroom apartments in the Syracuse region was $800 in December, the same price as November, but down 5.9 percent from $850 in December 2019, according to Zumper, an apartment-rental-listings website.
The median rental rates for two-bedroom units in the area was $1,010 in the December report, up 1 percent from the previous month and unchanged for a year earlier.
Syracuse now ranks as the 85th most expensive rental market (or 16th least expensive) in the nation of the top 100 markets, per the report.
The Zumper National Rent Report analyzes rental data from more than 1 million active listings across the U.S. The company aggregates the data on a monthly basis to calculate median asking rents for the top 100 metro areas by population.

M&T Bank elects Godridge and Seseri to board of directors
BUFFALO, N.Y. — M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) announced it recently elected Leslie Godridge and Rudina Seseri to its board of directors. Godridge recently retired as vice chair and co-head of corporate and commercial banking at US Bancorp. She joined US Bancorp in 2007 as executive VP and head of national corporate special industries and
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) announced it recently elected Leslie Godridge and Rudina Seseri to its board of directors.
Godridge recently retired as vice chair and co-head of corporate and commercial banking at US Bancorp. She joined US Bancorp in 2007 as executive VP and head of national corporate special industries and global Treasury management, a role she held until 2016 when she became vice chair and co-head of corporate and commercial banking. Godridge previously spent 25 years at Bank of New York serving in a variety of senior managerial roles, culminating as head of consumer, commercial, private banking and asset management, according to M&T.
Seseri is the founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture-capital firm investing in artificial-intelligence enabled software companies. With more than 17 years of investing and transactional experience, Seseri has invested in and helped build successful companies with innovative technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, enterprise software, and digital-marketing technologies, M&T said. Prior to founding Glasswing Ventures, Seseri was a partner at Fairhaven Capital — a technology venture-capital firm — from 2007-2015.
The two board appointments went into effect Nov. 16, 2020. Godridge and Seseri were also elected to the board of M&T Bank, M&T’s main banking subsidiary.
Buffalo–based M&T Bank is the largest bank in the 16-county Central New York region by deposits.
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