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This was a record breaking year for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2017 Light the Night Walk! Thanks to generous support from our sponsors and walk participants, this year we raised $425,000 to help find a cure for blood cancers. Rick Ostroff would like to extend a special thank you to his Light the Night Walk Co-Chair Bill Lia, CBS6 News Anchor Greg Floyd and the staff at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Upstate ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Randy Wolken, president and CEO of the Manufacturers Association of Central New York, will succeed CenterState CEO President Robert Simpson as co-chair of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council. Wolken will join the council’s academic co-chair, SUNY Upstate Medical University President Danielle Laraque-Arena, when Simpson’s term as the council’s business co-chair expires ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the appointment of “Fix NYC,” an advisory panel tasked with coming up with proposals to address the pressing issue of heavy congestion on New York City roads and highways, while producing a dedicated funding stream for the MTA. The panel will report findings in December of 2017 for consideration in next year’s legislative session. “New York City is home to some of the most gridlocked streets ...

From baby formula to generators to bottled water, FedEx is stepping up to ship badly-needed humanitarian cargo to Puerto Rico and neighboring islands in concert with disaster relief groups working to help the hurricane-battered area. In all, FedEx has shipped more than 1,500 tons of disaster relief cargo to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, with several hundreds of thousands more pounds expected to be delivered within ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset uncompensated care until it can determine an equitable way to distribute the money. Those funds include money that was expected to be distributed last year and those allocated for the current fiscal year. The governor said that if Congress doesn’t the restore the funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature ...

The New York Wheel, which was announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2012 and approved by the New York City Council in 2013, was supposed to be the largest Ferris wheel in the world at 630 feet. It has since been exceeded by the Ain Dubai Ferris wheel, which will reach 689 feet – and that’s assuming the New York City project comes to fruition. The Ferris wheel, which will be located in the St. George neighborhood ...

Mike Hickey, who has led some of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Albany, New York, area, has been named CEO of Monolith Solar, the solar panel installation company. The company has more than doubled its employee count this year to almost 150 people and has seen 300 percent revenue growth since 2014. Monolith Solar was founded by Steve Erby and Mark Fobare in 2009. Erby and Fobare ...

A 100-year lifespan—it’s praise we associate with lucky senior citizens, but rarely with transportation assets such as bridges and highways. That’s partly because such projects have traditionally been built to last just 50 years owing to the limitations of materials and engineering techniques at the time of construction. For example, the Tappan Zee Bridge, which opened in 1955, was designed for a 50-year lifespan ...

Traffic on Vestal Parkway becomes a little more congested. Store checkout lines get longer. And the general population of Binghamton turns decidedly younger. Welcome to Binghamton University’s fall semester start. Classes begin Wednesday. New students moved into the dorms on Sunday; returning students on Monday after their three month break. Off-campus residents — an estimated 10,000 living in ...