The Oneida County Industrial Development Agency is offering financial incentives to those downtown Utica businesses that are choosing to leave the footprint of the proposed hospital. Two businesses have applied for financial incentives. Those businesses are Park Outdoor Advertising and H.J. Brandeles. The financial package for Park Outdoor Advertising is complete, the Industrial Development Agency has yet to finalize the incentives for H.J. Brandeles. Eyewitness News reporter Ben Dennis has...
There are plans to demolish the recently acquired 1900 Bleecker Street building. The private developer has closed with the City of Utica. Bowers Development LLC told Eyewitness News that the State Environmental Quality Review process for that site will finish within the next month. The company is still deciding on a contractor to take the building down. There are six businesses within the footprint of the proposed Utica hospital that are considering moving to the 1900 Bleecker Street site.
Booz Allen Hamilton will be investing $1.6 million to expand their operation inside the Griffiss Business and Technology park in Rome, New York. A new facility will be constructed next to the Air Force Research Lab at Griffiss. Booz Allen Hamilton says on top of the 60 new jobs being created, they will maintain the current 158 people currently employed. There is no timeline on when the projects completion.
Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon was a co-sponsor on a package of bills that passed through the New York State Assembly earlier in the week. The bills will give peace of mind, and help those who have been victims of domestic abuse to transition back towards a life of normalcy. The bills would help victims to keep their information private, such as medical records and voting, to protect them from previous abusers. It would also give victims a path to seperate themselves from their abusers,...
According to the Center For Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated that more than 427 thousand people are diagnosed with Lyme Disease each year. Many more people could be walking around with the disease because they are unaware of what the warning signs are. Now, Kathryn LaPaglia is on a mission to spread awareness after being diagnosed at the age of 19. LaPaglia wants to make sure nobody in the Mohawk Valley has to endure what she went through and is taking steps to raise awareness...
 The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority now has a facility that will turn food scraps into energy. The $3.4 million facility uses an  anaerobic digestion process to create the energy. Hamilton College has signed on with the program and will drop of food waste to be converted into energy. The Solid Waste Authority hopes the facility will bring economic and environmental benefits to the area. Half of the funding for the facility came by way of grants from the Department of Environemtnal...
A 2017 Utica Codes Department inspection of the Olbiston apartment building, on Genesee Street, showed that many renovations to be done to the 19th century structure. The first item on that list? The roof, which needs to be completely redone. Estimations for the roofs repairs come in around $1.5 million. The New York State Supreme Court ruled that the renovations need to be completed by November of 2019. Through Oneida County Social Services department and other agencies, the City of Utica is...
Three days after a fire in the Poland Central School, staff are preparing to return for a partial day as repairs continue. The fire started around 2:30am on May 14th, 2019. The fire destroyed part of the basement and caused damage to the sixth grade wing. Staff are scheduled to return, however the timetable for students return is still up in the air. The district will not have to make up the missed days because under the state classification, these missed days are seen as 'extraordinary...
State Senator James Seward helped to pass legislation through the Senate to give advanced financial aid to Schenevus School District in Otsego County. Seward put forth a bill that would help advance Schenevus District for half of a million dollars in school aid for this year, and a decreasing sum of advanced aid over the next thirty years. In order to get the help, the school district would have to agree to adhere to a strict financial plan to maintain their solvency. The budget that voters...
