IAED, TC3 graduate first SUNY pre-apprenticeship group in manufacturing program

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Ithaca Area Economic Development (IAED) in partnership with Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) on Aug. 30 held a graduation ceremony for a group seeking work with an area manufacturer. The group was part of the SUNY Pre-apprenticeship Direct-to-Work: Pathways to Manufacturing program, IAED said in its announcement. Participants spent five weeks in training and are […]

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Colgate University and Dartmouth College partner to offer bridge program

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HAMILTON, N.Y. — Colgate University and the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College have formed a new institutional partnership that gives Colgate students access to the Tuck Business Bridge Program, according to an announcement from Colgate. This winter, Colgate sophomores and juniors interested in exploring business careers will have the opportunity to connect

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Under the CAI, employers receive a $5,000 salary reimbursement for agreeing to hire, mentor, and train the student for a year. CenterState CEO members that provided entry-level jobs for graduates this year are Crouse Health, LOTTE Biologics, Syracuse Housing Authority, and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

The CAI program in Syracuse was modeled on a similar program that has operated successfully in Canada for several years. The Syracuse program was the CAI’s first U.S. pilot.

The Collegian Hotel in Syracuse hosted a Tuesday, Aug. 27 event to acknowledge recent graduates starting new positions with participating employers. Those attending the event included representatives from CenterState CEO; Alan Rottenberg, founder of the Canadian Career Apprenticeship Initiative; Donna Gillespie, CEO of the Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO); representatives of Syracuse University, SUNY Oswego, and Le Moyne College; as well as area employers and recent college graduates.

“We imagined our youth, upon graduating from university, launching their careers immediately with full time employment — not in unskilled jobs or living in their parents’ basement. Syracuse, like other communities running the apprenticeship program, has made the imagined real,” Rottenberg said in the CenterState CEO announcement.

Besides Rottenberg, the event included remarks from Robert Simpson, president and CEO of CenterState CEO and Kristi Eck, assistant VP for workforce innovation and external relations at SUNY Oswego.

The program is an “outgrowth” of the relationship between Central New York and Kingston, Ontario, known as the Kingston-Syracuse Pathway. The partners in the program include CenterState CEO; KEDCO; SUNY Upstate Medical University; the Kingston Health Sciences Center; and Queen’s University.

The pathway started around “common interests,” such as cross-border medical research, and broadened into other areas, such as providing “soft landings” for businesses from either country.

Gillespie, who has run the program successfully in Kingston for several years, brought the idea for the apprenticeship initiative to CenterState CEO. The CenterState CEO Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of CenterState CEO, oversees the apprenticeship program.

Tioga State Bank opens Johnson City branch

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JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. — Tioga State Bank (TSB) unveiled its new Johnson City branch on Thursday, Aug. 29 with a ribbon cutting and other festivities.

MVHS names new chief medical officer

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Fly Creek named nation’s top cidery in USA Today reader survey

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Schumer secures $2.5 million federal grant to double the size of the Oswego County Industrial Park

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Barnes & Noble Booksellers opens store at Destiny USA

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Barnes & Noble Booksellers, the nation’s largest retail bookseller, has opened a new location at Destiny USA in Syracuse. The store, which held a formal-opening event on Wednesday morning, Aug. 28, is located on level 2 next to Lululemon. It’s in a space formerly occupied by Banana Republic. “We are excited to

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Barnes & Noble Booksellers, the nation’s largest retail bookseller, has opened a new location at Destiny USA in Syracuse.

The store, which held a formal-opening event on Wednesday morning, Aug. 28, is located on level 2 next to Lululemon. It’s in a space formerly occupied by Banana Republic.

“We are excited to welcome Barnes & Noble to Destiny USA,” Alannah Gallagher, director of marketing at Destiny USA, said in a shopping center news release. “As a beloved brand in the literary world, Barnes & Noble offers something for everyone, and we’re confident that this new location will quickly become a favorite stop for shoppers and book enthusiasts alike.”

The Destiny USA location now joins existing Barnes & Noble locations at 3956 Route 31 in Clay; 3454 Erie Boulevard East in the Raymour & Flanigan Plaza in DeWitt; and 4811 Commercial Drive in Consumer Square in New Hartford, per the Barnes & Noble website.

“We are excited to expand our presence in central New York with this wonderful new Barnes & Noble,” James Daunt, CEO of New York City–based Barnes & Noble, said in a separate release from the bookseller. “We couldn’t be happier to be bringing a new bookstore to this community and look forward to welcoming our customers here…”

The new Syracuse location is one of four new Barnes & Noble bookstores to open in August, alongside stores in New Mexico, Kentucky, and California. The company says it is “enjoying a period of tremendous growth as the strategy to hand control of each bookstore to its local booksellers has proven so successful.”

Barnes & Noble says it is generating strong sales in its existing stores and has been opening many new locations after more than 15 years of declining store numbers. In 2023, the company opened more new bookstores in a single year than it had in the entire decade from 2009 to 2019, Barnes & Noble said. The bookseller added that it expects to open more than 50 new bookstores in 2024.

The company also made headlines this week when Leonard Riggio — who had acquired the Barnes & Noble trade name and flagship bookstore in Manhattan in 1971 — died after dealing with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83, per an Associated Press report on the website of CNN Business.

After more than 25 years as a publicly traded company, Barnes & Noble was acquired by Elliott Advisors (UK ) Limited in August 2019 and taken private, according to its website.

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