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MVHS Medical Group adds two family nurse practitioners
Karissa Madden joins the group’s Washington Mills location as a primary care provider. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing and family nurse practitioner (FNP)

CenterState CEO announces six employees promoted to new corporate leadership team
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CenterState CEO announced it has promoted six employees to its newly established corporate leadership team following an “organizational refresh process.” The group

State launches marketing program to promote New York farms
Farms participating in the New York State Grown & Certified initiative will be getting a promotional boost with the launch of a new marketing campaign

Indium partners with MVCC to develop new 3D printing technology
UTICA, N.Y. — A partnership between Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and Indium Corporation has resulted in the development of new 3D printing technologies using

Federal grant to help OCC lead community colleges in health-care training initiative
The schools will work in partnership with leading workforce-development agencies, health-care industry leaders, unions, and other community partners in a project called the Community College

Genesis Group, NBT Bank partner on business-grant program
Awards range from $500 to $1,000. NBT Bank provided a $5,000 investment to fund the first round of grants. Townsquare Media, Hummel’s Office Plus, and

People news: Oswego Health names Morse director of ICU and respiratory therapy
Morse started working at Oswego Health in 2010 as a registered nurse (RN) in the ICU in 2010. There, she spent nine years caring for

Tompkins Cortland Community College awarded funding for micro-credentials, job training
DRYDEN, N.Y. — Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) in Dryden will use a funding award of $150,000 to develop micro-credentials and for training to fill

Five Star Bank parent names Harting to board of directors
WARSAW, N.Y. — Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI), parent of Five Star Bank, recently announced the appointment of Bruce W. Harting as a new independent member of its board of directors. Harting’s appointment increases the size of the banking company’s board to 12 members, 11 of whom are independent. He is the sixth board member
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WARSAW, N.Y. — Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI), parent of Five Star Bank, recently announced the appointment of Bruce W. Harting as a new independent member of its board of directors.
Harting’s appointment increases the size of the banking company’s board to 12 members, 11 of whom are independent. He is the sixth board member added since 2016, “consistent with the company’s commitment to board refreshment,” according to a Financial Institutions news release. Harting also joins the Five Star Bank board.
Harting, who most recently served as team chief investment officer, private wealth advisor at Rockefeller Capital Management, has worked in the investment banking and equity research fields for more than 35 years.
“Bruce’s exceptional skill set and deep experience broaden the scope of our diverse and talented Board of Directors,” Martin K. Birmingham, president and CEO of Financial Institutions and Five Star Bank, said.
As a financial expert with strong strategic development, leadership, regulated financial services industry, and risk oversight experience, Harting will serve on the banking company’s audit and risk oversight committees.
Before joining Rockefeller Capital, Harting served as managing director and head of North American commercial-bank coverage in the investment banking group at Deutsche Bank. He previously was the managing director of investment banking at both Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital, covering banks and specialty financial companies. Harting spent the first 25 years of his career as an equity analyst at Barclays, Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, and Kidder Peabody.
A chartered financial analyst, Harting graduated from American University and received a master’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Five Star Bank, based in Warsaw in Wyoming County, has more than 45 branches throughout Western and Central New York, as well as a loan office in Maryland. Its CNY branches include offices in Auburn, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Ovid, Horseheads, and Elmira.
Financial Institutions and its subsidiaries employ about 650 people.

L3Harris wins nearly $46M contract modification with 40 percent of work being done in Liverpool
L3Harris Technologies was recently awarded a $45.8 million modification to a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract to establish and exercise an option for Navy equipment, components, engineering services, and other direct costs. This fixed-price-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-only modification includes additional options. If exercised, those options would bring the cumulative value of this contract action to
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L3Harris Technologies was recently awarded a $45.8 million modification to a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract to establish and exercise an option for Navy equipment, components, engineering services, and other direct costs.
This fixed-price-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-only modification includes additional options. If exercised, those options would bring the cumulative value of this contract action to nearly $104.5 million, according to a Sept. 6 U.S. Department of Defense contract announcement. Work will be performed in Millersville, Maryland (57 percent); Liverpool (40 percent); and Ashaway, Rhode Island (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2025. If all options are exercised, work will continue through September 2026.
Fiscal 2022 other procurement (Navy) funds totaling almost $36.5 million (80 percent); fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds of $6.25 million (13 percent); and fiscal 2020 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds totaling $3.1 million (7 percent) will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. is the contracting authority, per the Department of Defense announcement.
L3Harris is a global aerospace and defense technology company with more than $17 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees.
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