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Mental health hires on agenda again
NORWICH – Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Director Mary Ann Spryn received her standing committee’s support on Tuesday to add four new clinicians to her department’s s... read more...
County reviews highway, social services budgets
NORWICH – Finance committee supervisors waded through 2007 projections for two of Chenango County’s biggest budgets on Monday: $9.5 million for highways and $22.9 million for ... read more...
State pays Probation to oversee CIT inmates
NORWICH – Four high-risk sex offenders on probation at the Valley Ridge Center for Intensive Treatment in Norwich have netted $16,000 for the Chenango County Probation Departm... read more...
Sheriff pursues full-time nurse for county jail
NORWICH – Since January 2004, Chenango County has provided drug treatment court. Monday, its fifth and largest class yet celebrated their graduation at the county courthouse. ... read more...
Railroad insists it's not abandoning Chenango line
NORWICH – A legal notice published in last Friday’s paper that informed the public of New York Susquehanna & Western Railway’s pending abandonment of its Chenango Forks to She... read more...
Homeowners, town officials tackling stream cleanup
NORWICH – Fish have more rights than homeowners do, according to one town supervisor who - like a handful of others - has spent nearly three months working with federal regula... read more...
Norwich remembers former Mayor Marjorie Chomyszak
NORWICH – She will be remembered as an advocate for women, for teachers, for children, for the arts and for her community. Former City of Norwich Mayor Marjorie Chomyszak pass... read more...
Supervisors look at Morrisville branch enrollment
NORWICH – The dean of Morrisville State College’s Norwich branch campus proposed a 3 percent cost of living increase in his budget for next year, bringing the amount county ta... read more...
Chamber wants more money for tourism, development
NORWICH – A 15 percent increase for promotional activities next year was not something county lawmakers meeting in committee Tuesday had anticipated. “It’s a big pill to swa... read more...
Several departments request new county hires
CHENANGO COUNTY – Bigger government or less government? County supervisors will play tight rope with that question throughout the fall as department heads present their budget... read more...
When committee system works, board meetings are short
NORWICH – The committee system is alive in well within Chenango County. As a result of the sequential, and oftentimes lengthy, meetings of the legislature’s seven standing com... read more...
Another setback in NYRI's power line battle?
NORWICH – A small, but nonetheless positive chip in the game for opponents of New York Regional Interconnect’s power line proposal came late Thursday. NYRI is an Albany-base... read more...
Host of activities abound during Colorscape weekend
NORWICH – This weekend’s 12th Annual Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival could be the most chock-a-block full two-day event yet. From poetry, to comedy and drama - let alone gal... read more...
Chamber: Functioning railroad crucial to business development
NORWICH – Business development leaders met with an account representative of the New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad Wednesday morning at the Chenango County Chamber of C... read more...
Early childhood detection efforts under fire again
NORWICH – Even though it wasn’t on the agenda, a program that would identify school-aged youths in the county who are in need of mental health services came under fire again w... read more...
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