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Carrols Restaurant Group acquires Burger King restaurants in Indiana, Michigan
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST) announced it has recently acquired 19 Burger King restaurants in Indiana and Michigan. Syracuse–based Carrols is

Innovare Advancement Center in Rome formally opens
The facility at the Griffiss International Airport will bring together scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from academia, industry, and the U.S. Department of Defense to collaborate

Ithaca College to have interim president for upcoming academic year
The school went on to say that the board of trustees will be using the time during the transition to “thoughtfully consider and evaluate the

Rochester firm completes acquisition of Binghamton internet provider Plexicomm
Founded in 2003, Plexicomm was the first company to bring residential fiber to the area and grew to become a regional leader with service available

Industrial building in DeWitt sold for $900,000
DeWITT, N.Y. — The nearly 19,000-square-foot industrial building at 110 Boss Road in the town of DeWitt was recently sold for $900,000 to Sand Mauritius Holdings LLC. John Clark of Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Company handled the sale and represented the buyer in the transaction. The property, which encompasses nearly 3.4 acres, is assessed at
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DeWITT, N.Y. — The nearly 19,000-square-foot industrial building at 110 Boss Road in the town of DeWitt was recently sold for $900,000 to Sand Mauritius Holdings LLC.
John Clark of Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Company handled the sale and represented the buyer in the transaction.
The property, which encompasses nearly 3.4 acres, is assessed at $615,000 for 2021, and had the same full market value, according to Onondaga County’s online property records. Santorini Real Estate Holdings is listed as the prior owner.
The property class is listed as truck terminal and it is located in the East Syracuse-Minoa School District, per the county records.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Hotels in Onondaga County saw another massive surge in guests this May compared to May 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hammered the hospitality business, according to a recent report. The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county jumped 124.4 percent to 50.9 percent in May
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Hotels in Onondaga County saw another massive surge in guests this May compared to May 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hammered the hospitality business, according to a recent report.
The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county jumped 124.4 percent to 50.9 percent in May compared to under 23 percent in the year-earlier period, according to STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and analytics company.
Revenue per available room (RevPar), a key industry gauge that measures how much money hotels are bringing in per available room, more than tripled (up 241.5 percent) to $53.90 this May from a year prior.
Average daily rate (or ADR), which represents the average rental rate for a sold room, jumped 52.2 percent to $105.97 in May compared to May 2020.
The strong May 2021 hotel-occupancy report follows the April and March results when occupancy soared more than 152 percent and 40 percent, respectively, from the year-earlier periods. These are the first three months in which the year-over-year comparisons were to a month affected significantly by the COVID crisis. The prior year of monthly reports featured significant declines in occupancy as the comparisons were to a pre-pandemic month.

Lockheed Martin to pay Q3 dividend of $2.60 per share in late September
Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) announced that its board of directors has authorized a dividend of $2.60 a share for the third quarter. The dividend is payable on Sept. 24, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 1. It’s the same amount that the defense contractor paid shareholders in the
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Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) announced that its board of directors has authorized a dividend of $2.60 a share for the third quarter.
The dividend is payable on Sept. 24, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 1.
It’s the same amount that the defense contractor paid shareholders in the second quarter. At Lockheed’s current stock price, the dividend yields about 2.7 percent on an annual basis.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) — a Bethesda, Maryland–based global security and aerospace company — has two plants in Central New York, in Salina and in Owego, as part of the firm’s rotary and mission systems (RMS) business area.
The company has about 114,000 workers worldwide.
New York milk production jumps more than 4 percent in May
New York dairy farms produced more than 1.35 billion pounds of milk in May, up 4.2 percent from just under 1.3 billion pounds in the year-prior month, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,155 pounds in May, up nearly 3.9 percent from 2,075 pounds
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New York dairy farms produced more than 1.35 billion pounds of milk in May, up 4.2 percent from just under 1.3 billion pounds in the year-prior month, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
Milk production per cow in the state averaged 2,155 pounds in May, up nearly 3.9 percent from 2,075 pounds a year ago.
The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 628,000 head in May, up slightly from 626,000 head in May 2020, NASS reported.
On the milk-price front, New York dairy farmers in April were paid an average of $18.30 per hundredweight, up 40 cents from March, and $3.60 higher than in April 2020.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 893 million pounds of milk in May, up 1.8 percent from a year ago.
New York egg production edges up less than 1 percent in May
New York farms produced 147.8 million eggs in May, up 0.7 percent from 146.7 million eggs in the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The number of layers in the Empire State averaged nearly 5.82 million in May, up 4.3 percent from almost 5.58 million layers a year prior. May
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New York farms produced 147.8 million eggs in May, up 0.7 percent from 146.7 million eggs in the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.
The number of layers in the Empire State averaged nearly 5.82 million in May, up 4.3 percent from almost 5.58 million layers a year prior. May egg production per 100 layers dropped nearly 3.4 percent to 2,542 eggs from 2,631 eggs in May 2020.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, farms produced almost 751 million eggs during May, down more than 3 percent from more than 775 million eggs a year before.
U.S. egg production totaled 9.38 billion eggs in May, up more than 2.8 percent from 9.12 billion eggs in May 2020.

Sunnking seeks to help Mohawk Valley businesses with their electronics recycling
WHITESBORO, N.Y. — An executive with recycler Sunnking says the firm’s “big focus” is helping local businesses in the Mohawk Valley region. “We want to make it easy for them to responsibly handle and dispose of all of their electronics,” Adam Shine, VP of Sunnking, says. Sunnking, Inc. has operations in a space located at
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WHITESBORO, N.Y. — An executive with recycler Sunnking says the firm’s “big focus” is helping local businesses in the Mohawk Valley region.
“We want to make it easy for them to responsibly handle and dispose of all of their electronics,” Adam Shine, VP of Sunnking, says.
Sunnking, Inc. has operations in a space located at 272 Oriskany Blvd. in Whitesboro. The company, which is headquartered in Brockport in Monroe County, held a formal-opening event at the new location on June 29, per a company news release.
The firm expects the expansion to create up to 10 jobs within its first full year of operation.
The new “demanufacturing” facility will provide a resource for local businesses to reliably handle their end-of-life technology — including secure data destruction. End-of-life technology refers to products for which vendors no longer offer support services. The new facility will also allow Sunnking to “extend product lifecycles by identifying opportunities for refurbishing and resale,” per the company’s release.
The warehouse had previously opened in March 2020 but was then “immediately” shut down due to COVID-19 safety procedures, Sunnking said. Operations have slowly ramped back up in recent months due to the “growing need” for electronics recycling.
“We’re excited to travel into the underserviced Central and Eastern [New York] markets and believe this gives us the ability to expand throughout the state even more,” said Shine. “This evolution allows the ability to efficiently duplicate many of our current processes, create meaningful jobs and serve more customers under the New York State e-waste law.”
The plant buildout will also create space for Sunnking to add a second location of its retail brand, eCaboose, in 2022. It sells refurbished electronics and offers computer support to the community.
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