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Back to gravel roads?
NORWICH – County highway officials are concerned that Governor Eliot Spitzer’s budget proposal, coupled with high prices for fuel and materials, could cut in half the 63 miles... read more...
Mental Health Dept. $400,000 in the red
NORWICH – A recently announced 2007 deficit reported by the Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Department understated the amount by $151,000, leaving this year’s budget i... read more...
New voting machines arrive this month
CHENANGO COUNTY – Board of Elections Commissioners here agreed to follow the lead taken by other Central New York counties and purchase Sequoia Dominion ImageCast voting machi... read more...
County’s office building project nearly $1 million over budget
NORWICH – At first glance, Chenango County Finance Committee Chairman Lawrence Wilcox, R-Oxford, said the estimate presented Thursday for the West Park Place Office project wa... read more...
Home nursing care program still on chopping block
NORWICH – The Chenango County Department of Public Health is one step further in the process of transferring about 60 patients over to a private sector agency and shutting dow... read more...
Committee reluctantly accepts aid to put food stamp applications online
NORWICH – Financial leaders narrowly agreed Thursday to accept a $25,000 state bonus for the Chenango County Department of Social Services due to stipulations regarding its us... read more...
County pushes state to use 'old' Vets' Home
OXFORD – Chenango County officials are continuing their efforts to reverse the state health department’s plans to tear down the New York State Veterans’ Home in Oxford after s... read more...
Mental Health Dept. faces budget shortfall
NORWICH – Though just February, the Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Department currently faces a budget deficit of $246,000, or about 5 percent of its total 2008 budge... read more...
Fourth Ward’s TCE contamination thwarts efforts to terminate railroad’s PILOT
NORWICH – The Chenango County Industrial Development Agency agreed last week to postpone taking steps that would alter a 1982 tax agreement held with the New York Susquehanna ... read more...
Final drawings, timeline completed for county’s West Park Place offices
NORWICH – The blueprints for Chenango County’s estimated $2.3 million West Park Place Office project are expected to go out to bid in three weeks, kicking off what architects ... read more...
Cook Park rates to increase again
GREENE – Seasonal camping rates at Chenango County’s Gaius Cook Memorial Park, located about five miles south of the Village of Greene, will go up again this summer despite a ... read more...
County OKs timber sale
CHENANGO COUNTY – Lawmakers Tuesday tentatively approved the highest bidder for an upcoming timber sale on 10 acres of county-owned property on Ingraham Road in the Town of Pr... read more...
Planning Board: We're underutilized
NORWICH – The outgoing chair of the Chenango County Planning and Development Board said last week the organization has been underused and is not complying with New York Sate G... read more...
Downtown Norwich goes wireless
NORWICH – Downtown Norwich officially entered the cyber age Thursday with the announcement of new, wireless technology available from Frontier, a part of the Citizens Communic... read more...
Greater Norwich Empire Zone ranks high in state
NORWICH – Chenango County was 13th out of the state’s 82 Empire Zone Programs based on the success of economic development activity last year. The ranking, awarded by the New... read more...
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