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136 years of helping people celebrate life's biggest moments. Another CNY jewelry store is preparing to close.
Proposed plans to bring a BJ's Wholesale Club and gas station to Sangertown Square are moving forward.
At Loehmann’s, you got bargain designer goods and communal dressing rooms. These are the New York stores many New Yorkers over 60 shopped at that no longer exist. Alexander’s reached its peak of 16 stores in the New York metropolitan area in 1980, according to a company history.
The following is a listing of all residential property transfers in Oswego County reported during the week of Oct. 26. There were 104 transactions posted during this time. During this period, the median sale for the area was a 2,232-square-foot property on Worth Street in Fulton that sold for $160,000.
W.T. Grant stores disappeared in 1976 after the once-enormous variety-store chain went bankrupt and liquidated its remaining locations. The company filed for protection from creditors in October 1975, but its attempt to continue operating failed. By the following spring, the familiar Grants signs were coming down across New York and the rest of the country. The collapse ended a business that had started with one Massachusetts store in 1906 and grown into a nationwide chain with more than a thousand locations.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Millions of New Yorkers have already received the one-time Protecting Our Wallets Energy Rebate (POWER) check. If you haven’t received yours yet, it may not have been mailed yet. The checks began mailing this fall and will continue through December. As of October 15, over 3 million New Yorkers had received theirs, […]
ROME, N.Y. -- Five women-owned businesses in Herkimer and Oneida counties will each receive a $5,000 grant at an upcoming ceremony celebrating local entrepreneurs. According to the Women’s Fund of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, the Women Investing in Women awards ceremony takes place at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Griffiss Institute, 592 Hanger Rd., Ste. 200, in Rome.
Five companies have agreed to strengthen their cybersecurity practices and pay at least $300,000 in penalties following a massive medical data breach that exposed the […] The post Medical Data Breach Exposed 4.2 Million New Yorkers, Companies Face Up to $10 Million Settlement first appeared on SciFisland.com .
ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — Retailers across New York State have less than two months to meet a major state safety mandate. Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, all retail employers with 500 or more employees in New York State must provide employees with a silent response button requesting immediate assistance from a security officer, manager, or supervisor in case of emergency, and provide employees with training on the use of that silent response button.
Senior homeowners in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York can cut their property tax bills if household income stays under a cap, and those caps run from $48,110 in Pennsylvania to $112,000 for Massachusetts couples. The biggest single payout among the four is Massachusetts’ senior circuit breaker credit, which maxes out at $2,820 for tax […]
Toys "R" Us is making a big comeback throughout New York and the Hudson Valley! We've got all the locations.
Photo by Tyler A. McNeil, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. There was a time when a home improvement project in Upstate New York began with a trip to a familiar hardware store, lumberyard, or neighborhood home center. Maybe it was a leaky pipe in a Rochester two-family house, a porch that needed new boards in the Southern Tier, or another winter spent trying to keep the snowblower working in Western New York. Before the largest warehouse chains dominated so many commercial strips, local owners, family businesses, cooperatives, and regional chains supplied the parts and advice that kept homes running.
The Adirondack Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) is launching a Nonprofit Business Accelerator, a new program designed to strengthen the business planning capacity, financial sustainability and long-term growth of nonprofit organizations across AEDC’s 14-county service region in northern New York. The accelerator brings business planning and technical assistance to the...
Alongside being No. 2 in the state for direct-to-consumer sales—Essex County is first in New York state for agricultural land operated by female-principal producers as a percentage of all agricultural land. That means 47%, or 27,074 of 57,622 acres of farmland in the county are run by women, either as co-owners or sole operators.
Older homeowners and renters in Colorado and Montana can apply for winter heating aid through April 30, while Georgia and North Carolina begin taking applications from older residents on Dec. 1, a month ahead of everyone else. New York and Pennsylvania are also open. Each state sets its own dates, income limits and payment amounts […] The post Heating aid is open in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Montana, while Georgia and North Carolina open Dec. 1 first to households with older residents appeared first on The Money Overview .
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County’s Lake Erie Regional Grape Program has announced the 2026 Survey of Unsold Grapes. The Lake Erie Regional Grape Program surveyed growers in 2025 to find out how many grapes were not sold after harvest. This data was used to show the economic impact of the current market conditions on grape growers in Pennsylvania and New York. Data was collected, analyzed, and can be found in this article: 2025 Unsold Grapes Survey Results.
Oswego County veterans are invited to participate in free workshops to learn more about the small business resources available to them. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Syracuse District Office is hosting the workshops as part of National Veterans Small Business Week from Nov. 9-13. The sessions will cover a...
More than half of New Yorkers say $30 an hour should be the floor. Younger workers and lower-income households are leading the push, and the reasons aren't hard to find.
Two new Trader Joe's stores are planned for New York, expanding the popular grocery chain's presence in the state. The California-based retailer announced plans this summer to open new locations in the Syracuse area and Yonkers as part of its latest nationwide expansion. The plans add to the company's growth in New York, which includes a Long Island store that opened earlier this year. The expansion comes as Trader Joe's continues to draw shoppers with its private-label products and competitively priced groceries. Where are the new Trader Joe's stores? According to Trader Joe's, the two planned stores will be located at: Camillus: 3515 W. Genesee St., in the Syracuse area. Yonkers: 2482 Central Park Ave. The Camillus store, located just west of Syracuse in Onondaga County, will be about 9,000 square feet and become the area's second Trader Joe's. The existing Syracuse-area store is at 3422 Erie Blvd. E. in DeWitt. The Yonkers location will cover about 10,000 square feet. When will the new Trader Joe's stores open? Trader Joe's has not announced opening dates for either New York location. Spokeswoman Nakia Rohde said new stores typically open within three to six months of being announced. Based on that timeline,
