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County has trouble soliciting local bidders
NORWICH – The inability to attract regional companies to bid on providing needed public works equipment and materials could force Chenango County to purchase those items only ... read more...
Towns want in on natural gas profits
NORWICH – The Smyrna town board has piggybacked on a resolution passed in the neighboring Town of Lebanon that calls for an enhancement tax on natural gas sales from local pro... read more...
County considers selling off surplus land
NORWICH – County officials agreed in committee this week to begin the process of selling 223 acres of surplus land it owns in the Town of Norwich. The property, located on ... read more...
2006 "busy, but trying" year for economic development
NORWICH – “Last year was busy, but trying,” said Economic Development Director Maureen Carpenter at the start of her annual report to the Chenango County Board of Supervisors ... read more...
City hoped for provision in sales tax reauthorization
NORWICH – Although two city of Norwich officials were on hand during Monday’s Chenango County Board of Supervisors meeting, neither were on the agenda and, therefore, were not... read more...
Chase Memorial commences capital campaign
NEW BERLIN – A $13 million capital building campaign is set to commence in the next few months for renovations at Chase Memorial Nursing Home, a not-for-profit long-term care ... read more...
Railroad could be officially abandoned in three months
NORWICH – The county’s top economic development official told lawmakers this week that the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway planned to permanently abandon its right-of-w... read more...
Supervisors agree to plans for old jail
NORWICH – The West Park Place Office project got off the ground Monday with a unanimous vote to separate the former Chenango County Sheriff’s Office and Jail building into two... read more...
Using West Park Place buildings still “an option” for district courts
NORWICH – No options are off the table, a representative from the Sixth Judicial District court system said Wednesday during a discussion of utilizing space in the former Chen... read more...
Whatever happened to Alteren?
NORWICH – Mum’s the word where Stephen E. Stark, the one-time resort and event center developer, is concerned. Though he continues to pay taxes on about 500 acres in the Town ... read more...
County gets grant for bike path
OXFORD – Chenango County has been awarded a federal $775,000 transportation enhancement grant that will be used to build five-foot wide paved shoulders along county Route 32 f... read more...
Supervisors to vote on extending 1 percent sales tax
NORWICH – The Chenango County Board of Supervisors will vote next Monday on reauthorizing the collection of a 1 percent sales tax for another two-year period. The additional... read more...
Wintertime forces more homeless to seek help
NORWICH – The colder winter weather has pushed more people out of their temporary, if not unheated, living situations to the doors of the county’s Social Services Department, ... read more...
High end culinary store features local philanthropist’s mustard
NORWICH – Condiments originally created in Patsy Manley Smith’s kitchen on West Hill in Norwich will appear on shelves next month at one of the nation’s most exclusive culinar... read more...
Treatment Court graduates four
NORWICH – Four former substance abusers and repeat felons have successfully completed Chenango County’s Treatment Court, bringing the total number of graduates to 23 since the... read more...
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