Former employee arrested for stealing more than $5,000 from Cortlandville business

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CORTLANDVILLE, N.Y. — New York State Police recently arrested a Cortland man for allegedly stealing more than $5,000 from his employer. Troopers charged Matthew R.

SRCTec awarded U.S. Army contract modification for AN/TPQ-50 radar systems

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CICERO, N.Y. — SRCTec LLC recently won a $99.95 million modification to a U.S. Army contract to procure AN/TPQ-50 exportable radar systems, spares, and repair parts. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 30, 2028, according to a Sept. 28 contract announcement from the U.S.

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Lockheed Martin Owego wins a nearly $50M contract

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OWEGO, N.Y. — Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems in Owego recently won a $49.5 million technology contract from the U.S. Navy that will also support several foreign militaries. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract provides technical, management, and process support to maintain the software for all H-60 helicopter variants in support of the Navy and the

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Oswego Health names Rockwood director of women’s services

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OSWEGO, N.Y. — Oswego Health has announced the recent promotion of Michelle Rockwood to director of women’s services. Rockwood, a registered nurse (RN), joined Oswego Health in 2016. Since then she’s worked in the health system’s women’s services department, caring for women and newborns and assisting families as they transition into their new roles. She

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Broome County hotel occupancy flat in August, other indicators rise

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Broome County hotels posted a slight decline in guests in August compared to the year-ago month, while two other business indicators registered gains. The hotel-occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county inched down 0.2 percent to 70.1 percent in the eighth month of the year versus

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Oneida County hotels register increase in guests in August

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UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County’s hotel-occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) went up 4.5 percent to 77.2 percent in August from the year-ago month. That’s according to a recent report from STR, a Tennessee–based hotel-market data and analytics company. Year to date through August, occupancy was up 1.6 percent to 61.2

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New York corn production increased more than 22 percent this year

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New York farms are expected to have produced over 98.6 million bushels of corn for grain in 2023, up 22.5 percent from 80.5 million bushels last year. That’s according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) forecast issued on Oct. 12, based on field conditions as of Oct. 1. The total yield per acre

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SUNY Oswego prof. wins NSF grant to study Arctic cold-air outbreaks

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OSWEGO, N.Y. — A SUNY Oswego professor will use a grant of more than $234,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research into cold-air outbreaks (CAOs) in the sub-Arctic region, called the CAESAR project. Yonggang Wang, assistant professor of meteorology at SUNY Oswego, will take four students with him on the research trip

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Yonggang Wang, assistant professor of meteorology at SUNY Oswego, will take four students with him on the research trip in early 2024, the university said in an announcement.

The experiment will use “state-of-the-art” facilities and deploy an NSF National Center for Arctic Research (NCAR) C-130 aircraft to document convective clouds during cold-air outbreaks.

The clouds can produce heavy snowfall, occasionally generating intense “polar lows” that affect the overall climate of the Arctic. Researchers will study the outbreaks over the open waters between northern Sweden and the Arctic ice edge from Feb. 22 to April 7, 2024.

The NCAR C-130 aircraft has a 10-hour flight endurance, with a 2,900 nautical-mile range at up to 27,000 feet and can carry up to 13,000 pounds, SUNY Oswego said. The team is aiming to use research materials that have never been used before to study the Arctic CAOs. Those materials include radars and lidars, aerosol, cloud, precipitation and trace-gas probes, SUNY Oswego said.

Wang says one research aspect of using this aircraft is similar to that of using a weather balloon. However, those are primarily used over land. The NCAR aircraft will allow the team to study these outbreaks over large bodies of water.

“With the dropsonde system deployed from the aircraft, we can measure the vertical profiles of ambient temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction above water. After dropsondes are launched from the aircraft, they will fall down to the surface to give us some really nice measurements of the state of the atmosphere, so we are really excited that we have this facility,” Wang explained in a release.

For those not familiar with the subject matter, Wang says the cold-air outbreaks in this region of the world are similar to lake-effect snow patterns in the Oswego area — intense and unpredictable.

“The forecasting of lake-effect snow bands is also very challenging. Because of their small scales, sometimes the models cannot predict some key variables very accurately,” Wang said. “Hopefully, the students who are involved in the CAESAR project, and working on the data when it’s done, will understand the characteristics of the cold-air outbreaks, and that will help them better understand lake-effect snow events, so they can make significant contributions to our future forecasting of lake-effect snow, which is really important to the people who live in this area.”

Le Moyne’s business school moves ahead with new name

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Madden School of Business at Le Moyne College is going forward as the Madden College of Business & Economics. The college says that adding economics — which was originally part of Le Moyne’s business program — “represents a strategic realignment that will allow for more collaboration and exchange” between students and

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Madden School of Business at Le Moyne College is going forward as the Madden College of Business & Economics.

The college says that adding economics — which was originally part of Le Moyne’s business program — “represents a strategic realignment that will allow for more collaboration and exchange” between students and faculty in economics, other business fields, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

The school held an Oct. 4 formal-opening event at Mitchell Hall that included the unveiling of new signage on the building and a redesigned lobby, per the Le Moyne announcement.

Le Moyne’s Mitchell Hall is home to the Madden College of Business & Economics.

The event also included the announcement of a new endowed professorship in economics. The Madden School became the first named school in Le Moyne’s history 11 years ago.

Le Moyne will continue offering the current bachelor’s degrees in economics, but it’s also adding a new major for a bachelor’s degree in business administration: economics.

The school cited state and federal labor statistics as indicating positions for economists will continue to grow 6 percent through the current decade. Renaming the business school will “raise the profile” of economics for prospective and current students; alumni and benefactors who support the discipline; and also “elevate” economics for the purpose of recruiting faculty.

It will also allow Madden students to major in economics or pursue dual majors in economics and finance or other combinations, Le Moyne said.

To better support the major, the Le Moyne College recently added two tenure-track faculty members: Elahe Boskabadi and Zichu Zhao, both assistant professors.

New business and economics chair

In addition to announcing the new name, the Madden College also announced the creation of the Dr. John T. (Jack) Boorman ‘63 Endowed Chair in Business & Economics.

Boorman spent nearly 30 years in various positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and also served on Le Moyne’s board of trustees for 19 years, where he served as the chair of the investment committee for many years.

The college has named economic professor Wayne Grove as the inaugural recipient of the Boorman Endowed Chair.

Madden College history

Since becoming a named school in 2012 following Mike Madden’s $7.5 million donation, Le Moyne says the Madden School has had “significant growth and advancement” during the past 11 years.

Madden, a member of the Le Moyne College class of 1971, is managing partner of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.–based BlackEagle Partners, LLC. He attended the Oct. 4 event and delivered remarks.

The Madden College of Business & Economics lists past highlights that include the establishment of the McNeil Academy of Risk Management and Insurance in 2018, the launching of the Dolphin Green and Gold Fund LLC in 2019, and the founding of four centers of excellence that are an “integral part” of the school. They are the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity (2013); the Savage-McGill Center for Reflective Leadership (2015); the Hetterich Center for Global Engagement and Societal Impact (2016); and the Walter & MaryAnne Poland Jesuit Center for Research and Teaching Innovation (2021).

Tessy Plastics moves forward under a new president

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SKANEATELES, N.Y. — A man who has worked for Tessy Plastics since 1997 is now serving as the manufacturing firm’s new president. Stafford Frearson most recently was VP of engineering for the Skaneateles–based injection molding company. Roland Beck, who owns Tessy Plastics and has been serving as president, now transitions to CEO, per the firm’s

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