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Heavy equipment is being used for site preparation for a PVC pipe manufacturing plant in the town of Union.

National Pipe and Plastics plans to relocate its factory from Vestal to West Endicott

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A parody video posted on YouTube depicting a pro-fracking Governor Andrew Cuomo as Adolf Hitler is generating controversy.

The video uses about three-and-a-half minutes of a 2004 film called "Downfall

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The Broome County Office of Energy Development has been operating for almost seven weeks without authorization from lawmakers.

The legislature could vote on approving the office this Thursday.

Some Broome County residents have questioned the real purpose of the office, which was created by County Executive Debra Preston

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A downtown Binghamton restaurant that was shut down after a sprinkler system pipe froze and then burst is reopening.

The Loft At Ninety-Nine bar and restaurant was closed due to damage sustained following the water line incident.

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Nearly a year after the landmark Crowley Foods plant on Binghamton's South Side was shut down, there's still no word on what will happen with the property.

The plug was pulled on the Conklin Avenue milk processing facility March 16

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In her first State of the County address after being elected to a full term, Broome County Executive Debra Preston told the legislator her vision for the county wasn't just for the four years of her administration, but for the next 40 years

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More student housing may be constructed at University Plaza in the town of Vestal.

Several hundred additional Binghamton University students could reside at the former shopping center site.

Vestal-based Newman Development Group wants to start building The Metroplex at UP in the summer of next year

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New York State will again miss a deadline for issuing regulations for natural gas exploration in the Marcellus Shale formation.The head of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says more time is needed to study the health impacts of fracking

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Plans are moving forward to erect a new cellphone tower in the Village of Johnson City.After an original plan for a tower on the hill at the top of Reynolds Road was rejected over protests from neighbors last year, village officials are okaying the initial plans for a tower behind Warehouse Carpet Warehouse on Reynolds Road

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Those who've been supporting or fighting New York State fracking regulations should soon have a better sense of what path the Cuomo administration intends to pursue regarding shale gas development

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