Archive: Business & Technology

Andy Sciarabba told the Lansing Town Board Wednesday that the northeast portion of the 140+ acre land targeted for a town center would be perfect for a business and technology park.  Sciarabba proposed that the Town develop the infrastructure for the project, recouping its investment as businesses move in to lease or by lots there.  he said that having a shovel ready business park will give Lansing a competitive edge in attracting business to the Town.

"The Town would be the developer," Sciarabba said.  "It would eventually recoup its investment in the sale of the lots and leasing of the lots."

The Cayuga Medical Center Foundation announced that this year’s annual gala, An Evening to Care, had the largest support from our community ever – with the highest attendance ever – 317 people.

Wednesday morning a crowd gathered to celebrate the opening of Lansing Market. It's been over 15 years since the town had its own supermarket, and this one is a labor of love by Lansing people starting with Andy Sciarabba and his group of investors, almost all of them from Lansing. Lansing contractors Doug Dake and Doug Boles headed up the construction, and the store is embedded in the community in many ways including carrying local products, supporting local projects, and providing 55 new jobs in the town. But this is only the beginning of what town movers and shakers hope will become a vibrant town center.

"This is the anchor," Sciarabba says. "It's going to go from here to Rogue's Harbor. There will be a lot of in-fill of housing, professional offices, smaller businesses, coffee shops. That's what we want to make for Lansing that we sorely miss, I think. We're a very vibrant community, but we don't have a town center. It will be nice to see it happen."

Williamsville, N.Y. – Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania, today stated that to help with relief efforts for those affected by severe flooding in the Southern Tier of NY, Tops has made a product donation valued at $7,000 to the Food Bank of the Southern Tier.

Tops Markets donated hundreds of cases of non-perishable product to the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, including peanut butter, tuna fish, cereal, electrolyte drinks, and canned soup.

Cayuga Medical Center announced today Julie Campbell, MD, has joined Cayuga Hematology Oncology Associates. Dr. Campbell joins the practice of Timothy Bael, MD and Charles Garbo, MD.

Dr. Julie Campbell earned her bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Binghamton University. She went on to earn her Medical Doctorate from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Campbell completed her internship and residency at Columbia University. In 2008 she began an Oncology and Hematology fellowship at Columbia University and finished in June of this year. Dr. Campbell is board certified by The American Board of Internal Medicine.

The Board of Directors of Tompkins Trust Company announced the promotion of Douglas M. Brown to Vice President.

Frank Fetsko, CFO, said that Doug brings a wealth of skill and experience to the accounting team and this promotion recognizes the leadership role he plays in the department and the Company.

Vestal, NY -- WSKG, Public Television and Radio, announced this week the addition of Eric C. Lindstrom as Underwriting Account Executive for the Ithaca and Tompkins County markets. Lindstrom has served as Vice President of Ithaca-based Communiqué Design and Marketing, Inc. as well as Sales Manager for Cornell Radio Guild, Inc. (WVBR-FM) and most-recently Director of Sales and Marketing for National Book Auctions.

“This is a unique opportunity for me to expand WSKG’s already strong brand presence into Ithaca and the Finger Lakes Region, ”Lindstrom said. “As a native Binghamtonian, I grew up watching and listening to WSKG and I am proud to become a part of the Public Broadcasting station's plans to strengthen their presence in Ithaca - a beautiful place I have called home for over 20 years. I am excited to connect with my established regional contacts to expand the Ithaca market.”

Ithaca, NY -- National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY hosted a Sunday, August 14th auction featuring a wide assortment of collectible books and ephemera highlighted by notable authors and artists such as William Shakespeare, Frank W. Bensen and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The 430-lot auction also featured a unique assortment of Chinese and Thai pottery and pillow books.

Dr. Cora Lee FosterCayuga Medical Center has named Dr. Cora Lee Foster as medical director for its new Cayuga Center for Wound Healing scheduled to open in September at 101 Dates Drive in Ithaca.

The Cayuga Center for Wound Healing will specialize in the treatment of chronic wounds and non-responsive conditions and will offer hospital-based outpatient wound care as well as disease management and diabetes care.  Cayuga Medical Center is a client hospital of National Healing Corporation which assists hospitals across the country in establishing quality wound healing programs.

The Ithaca Health Alliance has appointed Justine Schaff, MD, to the position of Medical Director of the Ithaca Free Clinic. Dr. Schaff, who helped to found the Clinic in 2006, has been an active volunteer since its inception and is familiar with program developments and planned enhancements to the services the Ithaca Free Clinic offers.

Employed in the Emergency Department of Cayuga Medical Center, Dr. Schaff is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University Medical School.

Last October I reviewed four or five e-reader apps for the iPad and decided the Amazon Kindle reader app was the best.  It was a close race, because the iBooks reader is very good, but the iBooks store was terrible compared to Amazon's.  This summer Apple changed the rules in their app store, demanding 30% of all sales made from within apps, and on July 11th Amazon removed the Amazon Store button from their iPad Kindle app.

This week Amazon quietly launched a Kindle reader for a new platform: the World Wide Web.  And the company made sure that this reader, accessible from selected Web browsers (Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mobile Safari -- Amazon says other browsers will be supported soon), is optimized for... you guessed it... the iPad.  Because it is a Web-based app and not downloadable from the App Store, the Kindle Cloud Reader brings back the Amazon Store button, only weeks after Apple forced Amazon to remove it from the native iPad app.  To add insult to injury, they optimized the 'Kindle Cloud' version of the app that runs on iPad's Safari browser for the iPad.  In other words, the Amazon store on the iPad is an even better experience for readers than it was when the iPad app could have a store button.  More or less leaving the iBooks store in the dust for usability and shopping experience.

Williamsville, N.Y. – Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in Western New York, Central New York, including Rochester, and Northwestern Pennsylvania, is ranked fifth on STORES’ recently published “Hot 100 Retailers list,” where they described Tops as being among 100 retailers “with unique business models – and those with both the means and the fortitude to expand while others contracted or stood pat.”

The article focuses on retailers that have “continued to add stores – either through new construction or acquisition – in spite of consumers’ marked lack of enthusiasm for shopping over the past 12 months.”