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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — More than 25 Syracuse–area jazz groups will appear at 21 downtown clubs on June 26 for opening night of this year’s National

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ROME, N.Y. — AmeriCU Credit Union President/CEO Ron Belle has been elected to the CenterState CEO board of directors, the Rome–based credit union says. CenterState

Binghamton Rumble Ponies sold to NYC firm that operates minor-league baseball teams

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Owners of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies on Friday announced they have entered into an agreement to sell the team to Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH). New York City–based DBH is a company that owns and operates select minor-leaguebaseball clubs affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB), per the team’s Friday announcement, which didn’t include

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Owners of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies on Friday announced they have entered into an agreement to sell the team to Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH).

New York City–based DBH is a company that owns and operates select minor–leaguebaseball clubs affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB), per the team’s Friday announcement, which didn’t include any financial details of the sale.

The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are the Double-A minor-league affiliate of MLB’s New York Mets.

Besides the sale, the Rumble Ponies also announced that Richard Tylicki will continue on as the club’s general manager (GM). Tylicki — a long-time member of the Rumble Ponies front office — has served as acting GM since last November,

David Sobotka, current president of the Rumble Ponies, and Karen Sobotka, current VP, will remain in their positions throughout the transition.

“Owning the Rumble Ponies has been a dream come true for us, but the real reward has been seeing firsthand its impact on the Binghamton community,” David Sobotka said in the announcement. “Keeping the team in Binghamton was a priority when we bought the team, and we are confident that DBH, based on their reputation for investing in communities like Binghamton, will ensure that the minor league baseball experience will be preserved for future generations to enjoy.”

The Binghamton Rumble Ponies will continue playing at Mirabito Stadium, located at 211 Henry St. in Binghamton, as all front–office staff remain in place. The stadium seats about 6,000.

“At its best, minor league baseball fully embodies and reflects the culture and local identity of the community it’s played in, and that is exactly what ownership and the front office staff here have done so successfully in Binghamton,” Pat Battle and Peter Freund, executive chairman and CEO of DBH, respectively, said in the Rumble Ponies announcement. “We are thrilled to have a supportive partner in the New York Mets, and we are steadfast in our commitment to the city of Binghamton and Rumble Ponies fans to ensure professional baseball — and much more — will be enjoyed at Mirabito Stadium for many years.”

Syracuse is designated as a workforce hub, focused on chip manufacturing

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. President Joseph Biden on Thursday announced Syracuse as one of four additional Investing in America Workforce Hubs, and the Syracuse hub will focus on semiconductor manufacturing. The 46th president made the announcement during his visit to the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (the MOST) in downtown Syracuse. Biden

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The 46th president made the announcement during his visit to the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (the MOST) in downtown Syracuse.

Biden also touted the agreement between Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) and the U.S. Department of Commerce for $6.1 billion in federal funding from the CHIPS and Science Act for the company’s projects in the town of Clay and at its headquarters in Boise, Idaho.

Besides Syracuse, Biden also announced hubs for Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; and Detroit and Lansing, Michigan.

The hubs complement five existing workforce hubs, including those in Phoenix, Arizona, and Columbus, Ohio that have supported new semiconductor training programs, per a White House fact sheet about Biden’s visit to Syracuse. These hubs seek to leverage and develop partnerships between companies, educational institutions, and labor unions on workforce development.

“And I know that Micron is also partnering with American Federation of Teachers to develop technology curricula for high schools in New York State,” the president said in his remarks at the MOST.

First Lady Jill Biden in 2023 announced the first five workforce hubs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Arizona; Baltimore, Maryland; Columbus, Ohio; and Augusta, Georgia.

“Thousands of workers will be training in these facilities,” President Biden said in his remarks at the MOST.

Federal officials first discussed the announcement of Syracuse as a workforce hub during a Wednesday morning press call with reporters in New York and Idaho ahead of the president’s visit to Syracuse.

“I worked with the Biden Administration to make Syracuse one of only a handful of locations around the country designated as a workforce hub, and that’s going to help deliver assistance to companies, educational institutions, labor unions … to build a pipeline of workers to fill the thousands of good-paying jobs being created,” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.), said in the press call. “It’s one of the reasons that Micron was excited to come to Syracuse … they knew they’d have a good labor supply. The workforce hub designation will build on the major efforts Micron is already undertaking on its own to train a new generation of workers.”

Schumer went on to say, “Major funding from [the] CHIPS announcement will help support these workforce efforts and highlight Micron’s leadership in investing in workers in the entire region.”

ConMed promotes Beyer to newly created COO role

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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.

Southwest Airlines to cease operations at Syracuse airport in August

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) has informed the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) that it will end operations at Syracuse Hancock International Airport

Bassett Healthcare plans May 4 career fair with job openings across the health system

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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,

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Lockheed Martin Owego wins $13M Navy contract modification

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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

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SUNY Poly professor awarded $175K in NSF research funding

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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

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The research will create a novel framework named RepSON that addresses challenges caused by system-level concurrency bugs that frequently appear in modern software systems, lessening the burden faced by developers who must currently troubleshoot them manually, the university said.

“I applaud Dr. Zaman’s efforts on this project, which will develop a game changing resource for those in the software industry,” SUNY Poly Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Associate Provost for Research Michael Carpenter said in a news release. “Furthermore, this project will increase workplace efficiency, cutting down the amount of time developers spend debugging software, so they can focus on other important tasks.”

According to Zaman, reproducing software bugs is necessary to ensure that they exist so their behavior can be observed, and they can be fixed. Reproducing system-level concurrency bugs is challenging.

“I’m grateful for this investment by the National Science Foundation that will allow this incredibly important research to come to fruition,” Zaman said. “In addition to the creation of a novel framework (RepSON), this project will also develop a technique for extracting information and generating executable inputs from bug reports that can also be applied to other types of software bugs.”

Zaman joined SUNY Poly’s College of Engineering faculty in August 2022 after graduating with her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kentucky. Prior to this, she obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She worked at Samsung Research and Development from 2012-2013.

Her research focuses on devising novel techniques that make computer systems more efficient, reliable, autonomous, and user friendly.

SUNY Poly offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through its four colleges — arts and sciences, engineering, business, and health sciences.

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