Seniors: Dennis Ouellette, 80
Ontario Orchards owner not slowing down as he grows his farm market By Stefan Yablonski The seeds for Dennis Ouellette’s career path were sown when he was 6 years…
Seniors: John Lemp, 70
Has been working for more than 50 years in the business — M. Lemp Jewelers in Syracuse — that his great-grandfather started in 1890 By Mary Beth Roach Don…
Seniors: Bill Nelson, 82
Owner of Nelson Funeral Home wants to keep going with a purpose By Stefan Yablonski L. William Nelson will be 83 in June — and he does not want…
Richard Shatrau at N.E.T. & Die in Fulton works on a repair for a part for a company that does development for the plastics film industry. The former owner is “semi-retired,” but he’s still coming to work every day. He punches in at 8 a.m.
Seniors: Richard Shatrau, 84
N.E.T. & Die’s former owner comes to work every day, says he’d be bored just watching TV all day By Stefan Yablonski Richard Shatrau likes his job, the challenge…
Seniors: Carol Watson, 72
Owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping in LaFayette enjoys her growing business — still puts in six-, seven-day weeks By Mary Beth Roach Carol Watson, the owner of…
Mike Cackett, left, and Don Cook
Seniors: Don Cook, 73 and Mike Cackett, 72
They run Joey’s Brokerage of Syracuse Inc., located at the CNY Regional Market. They say they would miss their work and their customers were they to retire By Mary Beth…
Albany Medical College, one of the nation’s oldest and smallest private institutions for training future physicians, has maintained a first-year class size of 145 students. More than 14,000 candidates applied for admission last year.
Medical Schools See Record Number of Applications
More demand for medical schools in in all medical schools in Upstate New York By Aaron Gifford U.S. medical schools are enjoying record numbers of applications and enrollments and…
ConnextCare to Open New School-based Health Center
Centers across school districts in Oswego County treated over 20,000 people in 2025; ConnextCare is opening its 10th site, this time in Hannibal By Stefan Yablonski The school-based health…
New Medical School to Open in Buffalo
By Aaron Gifford D’Youville University in Buffalo plans to open a college of osteopathic medicine this fall. Its inaugural class is so far two-thirds full and applications for the…
TrumpRx Won’t Help Many: Expert
By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant Approximately 68% of Americans regularly take prescription medication, states CivicScience and about 26% take four or more daily. According to Statisa, prescription spending in the…