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NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. — Slocum-Dickson Medical Group has announced the addition of physician Elaine Tsukayama to its pediatric department effective Nov. 13. Dr. Tsukayama is

Herkimer County IDA receives more than $4M state grant for Schuyler Business Park improvements

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SCHUYLER, N.Y. — The Herkimer County Industrial Development Agency (HCIDA) recently received $4.37 million from the Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York (FAST NY) grant program to make improvements at its Schuyler Business Park. HCIDA will use the funds toward a $5.1 million project to install a 500,000-gallon water-storage tank to ensure adequate water

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HCIDA will use the funds toward a $5.1 million project to install a 500,000-gallon water-storage tank to ensure adequate water pressure and fire-suppression capabilities, along with improvements to the existing entrance to address traffic concerns. The project will allow for future development on more than 80 acres in the business park. The agency is working to attract clean-tech and renewable energy and interstate distribution and logistics businesses to the park, which is already home to a number of businesses including Wilcor International and The Fountainhead Group, Inc.

“Through the FAST NY grant program, New York is continuing its commitment to investing in and expanding economic growth and opportunity across the state,”

“This funding will prepare shovel-ready sites that key industries like semiconductors and renewable energy are looking for and will create good jobs and grow local economies for generations to come,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a news release announcing the FAST NY grants across the state.

Herkimer’s award was one of six FAST NY awards in the state totaling nearly $90 million. Other recipients were the Genesee County Industrial Development Agency ($56 million), the town of Coeymans in Albany County ($17 million), the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency ($5.25 million), the town of East Fishkill in Dutchess County ($2 million), and the Counties of Warren and Washington Industrial Development Agency ($4.7 million).

FAST NY, administered by Empire State Development, awards grants for pre-development activities and infrastructure improvements to develop sites to attract businesses in eligible industries including high-tech manufacturing, semiconductors, clean-tech renewable energy, life sciences, agribusiness, optics, transportation equipment, materials processing, industrial machinery manufacturing, other advanced manufacturing, and interstate distribution and logistics.

To date, nearly $130 million has been awarded to 13 locations across the state.

SRC names Jewett director of marketing and corporate communications

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CICERO — SRC, Inc. recently promoted Mike Jewett to director of marketing and corporate communications. Jewett started with SRC as an intern in 1998. Since then, he has served in roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as the company’s senior manager of marketing. In his new role as director, Jewett will be responsible for overseeing

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Tompkins Financial to pay quarterly dividend of 60 cents on Nov. 15

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ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins Financial Corp. (NYSE: TMP) recently announced that its board of directors has approved payment of a regular quarterly cash dividend of 60 cents a share for the latest quarter. The dividend is payable on Nov. 15, to common shareholders of record on Nov. 7. At Tompkins Financial’s current stock price, the

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S.E.E.D. Planning Group names head of financial planning division

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SALINA, N.Y. — S.E.E.D. Planning Group, LLC recently announced it has promoted Jeff Chase to head of the firm’s financial planning division. He currently works from the firm’s office on Elwood Davis Road in the town of Salina. Since joining the firm in 2020, Chase has spent the last two years working alongside the S.E.E.D.

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Oneida County hotels post slight rise in guests in September

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UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County’s hotel-occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) edged up 1.1 percent to 67.1 percent in September from the year-prior month. That’s according to a recent report from STR, a Tennessee–based hotel-market data and analytics company. Year to date through September, occupancy was up 1.5 percent to 61.8

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Turning Stone closes out successful golf season

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VERONA, N.Y. — As Turning Stone Resort Casino ramps up a $370 million project to renovate and expand the resort, it closes out the 2023 golf season with double-digit increases in the number of overnight golf guests and number of rounds played on its three 18-hole golf courses. The resort says it saw a 40

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Delta flights from Syracuse to Minneapolis resume next June

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SYRACUSE — Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) are looking ahead to late spring of 2024 when Delta plans to relaunch daily, year-round, nonstop flights from SYR to Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The daily direct flights between SYR and MSP are scheduled to restart June 7, 2024, providing Central

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The daily direct flights between SYR and MSP are scheduled to restart June 7, 2024, providing Central New York air travelers with more options, the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) announced on Nov. 6.

Atlanta, Georgia–based Delta Air Lines last offered this route in March 2020, the SRAA noted in a news release.

Nonstop flights from Syracuse to Minneapolis–St. Paul are scheduled to depart Syracuse at about 6:45 a.m. with an estimated arrival time into MSP at 8:15 am (central time).

Delta’s Airbus 319 aircraft with 132 seats in a three-class configuration will service the route, per the announcement.

This air service will provide “convenient connections to key” western markets, including San Francisco and San Jose in California, as well as Boise, Idaho, where Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) is headquartered, SRAA noted.

Micron Technology plans to build a massive semiconductor campus at the White Pine Commerce Park in the town of Clay.

The flights will also provide “convenient” connectivity to Delta’s MSP – Tokyo, Japan route, which SRAA contends will be additionally beneficial to Micron “and other members of our Central New York business community.”

“The resumption of daily, year-round, nonstop service from Syracuse to MSP is a huge win for both our business and leisure travelers,” Jason Terreri, SRAA executive director, said in the release. “Central New York’s travel demand — especially westward — continues to soar and the addition of this daily service helps meet that demand.”

Flights on the resumed route went on sale over the weekend and can be viewed, along with specific inbound and outbound schedules, at Delta.com, SRAA said.

“Delta’s new service from Syracuse to our Minneapolis hub next summer is only the latest proof point of our commitment to the state of New York,” Chuck Imhof, Delta’s VP of New York sales, said in the SRAA release. “With the addition of this nonstop service to MSP, Delta will operate 16 daily flights from Syracuse to our hubs across the East Coast in summer 2024, connecting customers in Central New York with hundreds of destinations around the world.”

The announcement of the resumed Delta flights to Minneapolis–St. Paul came about three weeks after the SRAA announced that low-cost carrier Sun Country Airlines plans to launch twice-weekly seasonal flights from Syracuse to the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, starting next June 6 and running through Sept. 1.

SRAA also noted that Central New York travelers can fly directly to 30 destinations via nonstop flights with nine airlines now operating regularly scheduled flights at SYR.

Syracuse apartment rent prices for one-bedroom units rise in October

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The median rental price for most apartments in the Syracuse metro area rose 1 percent in October from the previous month and increased more than 4 percent from a year earlier. That’s according to the latest Zumper National Rent Report, issued on Oct. 25. The median rental price of one-bedroom apartments in

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CNY region jobless rates rise in September versus a year ago

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Unemployment rates are rising slightly from low levels in all six Central New York sub-regions, according to a recent state report. The jobless rates in the Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira areas were all higher in September compared to September 2022. The non-seasonally adjusted figures are part of the latest New York

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