Sentences with phrase «finger lakes area»

The organization is fully run by volunteers and services the Finger Lakes area in connecting greyhounds with their forever families.

We serve the Rochester and Finger Lakes area.

i LOVE LOVE LOVE THE finger lakes area!

More than a top tourism destination for our state, the Finger Lakes area was included among the top 10 Lake Vacations in the world last year.

In Western New York, 487... 232 in the Rochester Finger Lakes area.

Under a state constitutional amendment approved by voters last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, comprising Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties; the Albany - Saratoga area; and the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes area.

The bus tour started Sunday in Seneca Falls, where Rep. Louise Slaughter (D - Rochester) and the Democrat candidate from the 23rd district in the Finger Lakes area, Martha Robertson, joined the minority leader.

Ultimately, the gaming commission will choose four casinos later this year in the Capital Region, the Hudson Valley - Catskills Region and the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes area.

«They don't stay on I - 81 and they don't want to take the toll roads, so they cut through the Finger Lakes area and there have been some spills noted in the past, and that is a big concern of anybody concerned about the quality of drinking water and the quality of the lakes as they exist now,» Torrisi said.

While I encourage competition, it can not be overstated that no upstate elected Democrat in the Senate will truly represent the interests of Rochester and the Finger Lakes area over downstate interests, and come this fall, I believe the voters will agree.»

Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and other state lawmakers speak out against a proposed trash incinerator in Romulus.

Finger Lakes area motorists are hit hard with...

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmental goals.

Finger Lakes area motorists are hit hard with Tompkins County drivers shelling out 2 - 95.

In all, there were 16 casino applicants in three regions of the state: the Catskills - Hudson Valley, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes area.

Nonetheless, the Gaming Commission is expected to issue the three new licenses this year, for the Catskills, Schenectady and the Finger Lakes area.

A New York state senator from the Finger Lakes area quizzed the state's commissioner of agriculture and markets about the $ 15 million gondola introduced in 2016 as a new project for the New York State fairgrounds, but currently in limbo due to a lack of funding.

The report also cites Lago's potential to attract tourism to the Finger Lakes area, and, therefore, money.

Phelps Cement Products, a cornerstone in the Western New York market since 1946 has served the greater Rochester and Finger Lakes area in the manufacturing of concrete masonry units and related building products.

Proudly serving the Finger Lakes area for three generations.

Lake Erie, the Finger Lakes area, Hudson River Valley and Long Island in New York State.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, who toured storm - ravaged areas of the Rochester and Finger Lakes areas Saturday, urged the Small Business Administration to swiftly approve requests for federal support in the aftermath of Wednesday's damaging windstorm.

We've been in New York since 2003 in Chautauqua County, and last May, Nothnagle Realtors merged with us, adding 32 offices in Western New York, the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes areas.

Not exact matches

The Festival will take place the day after the industry Wine Tourism Conference, which draws wineries and winery associations from throughout North America.This is your opportunity to try wines you have never before tried, including wines from areas such as the New York Finger Lakes region, Ohio, Ontario, and Missouri in addition to wines from California and right here in Oregon.

But six others — Democrats David Valesky of Syracuse, Diane Savino of Staten Island and Jose Peralta of Queens, along with Republicans Thomas F. O'Mara of the Finger Lakes, Patrick M. Gallivan of Buffalo and Patty Ritchie of the Syracuse area — might hold onto theirs.

This area is famously known as the heart of New York's Finger Lakes Wine Region.

According to The Ithaca Voice, area events like Wizarding Weekend, Ithaca Reggae Festival, the Finger Lakes International Dragon Boat Festival, and other events that draw visitors to Tompkins County received funding.

Keuka Housing Council Homeownership Counselor Shawn Blauvelt said, «Homesmart NY looks forward in assisting Governor Cuomo's incentive to keep talented college graduates in our area and further growth in the heart of the Finger Lakes.»

A state board will reveal which gambling conglomerates will be permitted to open four new casinos in three regions — the Hudson Valley and Catskills, the Albany area and Southern Tier - Finger Lakes.

Residents who live on and near Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region have written to Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling on his administration to block permits for gas storage in the area.

«Thousands of 1199SEIU members live and work in the Finger Lakes region, providing care and support in hospitals and nursing homes throughout the area,» the letter, signed by Secretary Treasurer Maria Castanda, states.

Ultimately, in an acknowledgment of the increasingly crowded gambling market, the state board wound up awarding three licenses, not four: a $ 300 million casino in Schenectady, north of Albany; a $ 450 million resort in the Finger Lakes town of Tyre; and, in the Catskills - Mid-Hudson area, a $ 750 million project near Monticello.

Alexander, a former Buffalo firefighter who went on to found the Finger Lakes Bone & Joint Center in the Rochester region, grew up in the area of Fillmore Avenue and Oneida Street with now Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that seven separate grants totaling $ 214 million will be shared by localities in western, central and northern New York, the Finger Lakes region, the Southern Tier, the Mohawk Valley, the Albany area and the Hudson Valley.

The comptroller's report shows that the Capital Region saw the strongest job growth over the seven year period, with the Finger Lakes (including the Rochester area), coming in with the second - biggest gain in total employment, up about 9,500 jobs.

Lt. Governor Hochul says that while she can't make assumptions about the potential success of any one area, the Finger Lakes region, and Rochester specifically, may find that the future of their economic development is in photonics and optics research.

His impact can be seen throughout the Finger Lakes region, including in Auburn and Cayuga County — an area he's represented for the entire duration of his time in Albany.

To the west, there are three casinos owned by the Senecas in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls areas; and two racetracks with video - lottery terminals: Batavia Downs and Finger Lakes.

Developers of the Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes commmunity of Tyre are blasting the latest effort to deny the project a casino license: An apparent «push poll» being made to residents in the area.

At the same time, the question of whether yet another casino in upstate New York would be feasible in the Binghamton area given the proximity of both the Finger Lakes project and the plans by the Oneida Indian Nation to construct a «Wizard of Oz» themed - casino announced last year.

While that accounts for a 3.2 percent increase overall, gambling companies in New York are opening up to four new resort - style casinos in Schenectady, the Catskills and in the Finger Lakes, with gambling regulators due to award a fourth license to a Binghamton - area project as well.

The Finger Lakes region, which includes 14 New York state counties, could become a National Heritage Area in the future.

Area transportation advocates, lawmakers and labor and business leaders gathered Friday at two separate press conferences to urge Cuomo to provide additional funding for public transportation in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will be touring areas in the Finger Lakes impacted by recent flooding.

Three of seven regions — the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes and Center New York — received $ 500 million over the next five years in the Upstate Revitalization Initiative competition, which critics called the «Hunger Games» because it pitted areas of the state against one another, creating clear winners and losers.

But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural gas storage areas across the state and a crude - oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.

So far, New York state has authorized up to four casino licenses that will be divide up among three update regions: the Albany - Saratoga area, Southern Tier - Finger Lakes region and the Catskills and mid-Hudson River Valley.

Two casino proposals in the struggling area were snubbed in favor of the Finger Lakes project.

Spectrum News Rochester serves the greater Rochester, Finger Lakes and Genesee Valley area with 24 - hour local news, politics, features and weather seven days a week.

He faces a fellow legislative leader, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who in recent days has announced support from counties in and around his Finger Lakes - area Assembly district.