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Volunteering keeps seniors from going ‘stir crazy’
NORWICH – A large group of retired and senior citizen volunteers gathered recently to celebrate each other’s dedication to the Chenango County community in 2008. More than 40... read more...
Purple Tornado band hosts drum corps performances Saturday
NORWICH – Long days and warm weather in the late summer equal band camp for the proud members of the Norwich High School Purple Tornado Band. Rehearsals for the half-time fo... read more...
Securing funding for Rt. 12 upgrades an ongoing battle
NORWICH – Getting a federal earmark for New York State Route 12 passed by a Senate subcommittee is 90 percent of the hurdle, said a spokesman for U.S. Senator Charles Schumer.... read more...
Natural gas consultant’s appointment deferred
NORWICH – The decision whether to hire a consultant to market Chenango County to natural gas-related industries has been postponed for another month. The Chenango County Boar... read more...
Unexpected windfall for some back to school shoppers
NORWICH – More than two thousand school-aged youths in Chenango County received $200 each for back-to-school clothes and supplies this week from the federal government and bil... read more...
Norwich’s new priest notes special gifts of region, congregations
NORWICH – Growing up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side surrounded by a large, close knit family and a community of church-going neighbors has enabled Father Ralph Bove to identif... read more...
Looks like not everyone's happy with gas drilling ...
PRESTON – An unhappy, alien-eyed face and the word “Yuck” written underneath in capital letters – all painted in green – appeared sometime last week on county Road 19 before t... read more...
County’s sales tax receipts down 12.5 percent
NORWICH – Sales tax collections in Chenango County dropped 12.5 percent, or $825,000, for the second quarter of 2009. The figure compares to January through March results whe... read more...
Study points to $15.3 billion for Broome County from Marcellus
BINGHAMTON – Neighboring Broome County, all by itself, holds enough natural gas reserves to leverage the creation of 16,000 good-paying jobs, $793 million in wages, and $15.3... read more...
Pharsalia Farm celebrates 200th anniversary
PHARSALIA – If people paid as much attention to what they ate as dairy farmer Brian Newton pays attention to what he feeds his award-winning dairy herd, perhaps everybody woul... read more...
What's to become of Camp Pharsalia and the old Vets' Home?
NORWICH – A grassroots effort supported by Commerce Chenango and government leaders who hope to save the New York State Veterans’ Home in Oxford and Camp Pharsalia brought the... read more...
Gas drilling concerns want to know what the hold up is
NORWICH – The low drone from drilling rigs can still be heard through the hills and dales of Smyrna, landmen have begun to infiltrate further north into Madison County and rum... read more...
Bricks and Mortar Report
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bricks & Mortar Report provides updates on major construction projects in Chenango County. Brown Avenue Housing project: • Contractors installed electri... read more...
County takes ownership of five flooded out properties
NORWICH – Chenango County now owns five residential properties that it didn’t want in the first place thanks to a New York state flood remediation program. After a year of in... read more...
Goodbye potholes, standing water at County Office Building lots
NORWICH – Potholes and standing water could soon become a thing of the past for those who visit and work at the Chenango County Office Building on Court Street in Norwich. Pu... read more...
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