August 23, 2013 The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is looking to ease the strain on and lengthen the lives of aging bridges around the state.
PennDOT Secretary Barry Schoch has authorized the addition or changes to weight restrictions on about 1,000 structurally deficient bridges state-wide
August 22, 2013
Pre-registration is being accepted for a program aimed at older drivers in the Twin Tiers and their families.
Project Coordinator for the Capital Region Older Driver Assistance Network, Rory Fluman will be presenting the program; To Drive or Not to Drive August 27 from 1-2:20 p.m. at the Bro
August 17, 2013
The work to remove asbestos from a Binghamton elementary school is underway.
The Binghamton City School Board recently met in a special session to declare an emergency at the Calvin Coolidge Elementary School, where asbestos had been found in a crawl space in the basement at the end of the last school year.
Sunstream Corporation of Bingh
August 15, 2013 As the summer winds down, authorities are again reminding people about safety around the water, just as several Girl Scouts had to be plucked from Cayuga Lake.
Tompkins County authorities say the girls were campers at Camp Comstock and were in a junior sailor program, learning sailing techniques, when the winds kicked up on the lake August 14th, tipping over their boats
August 14, 2013 Binghamton City School District officials say disturbed asbestos in a crawl space in the basement of the Calvin Coolidge Elementary School was found before the end of the past school year.
The school board met in emergency session August 13 to talk about how to deal with the cleanup of the material, which is a carcinogen
August 13, 2013 Binghamton area motorists who prefer to avoid Vestal Parkway by opting to take Vestal Road, are seeing much more activity around the Binghamton/Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant.
Major demolition work is underway on a $90 million repair to the plant, which was heavily damaged in the 2006 flood, had a portion of a wall collapse in May, 2011 prior to being damaged again by the September, 2011 flood
August 9, 2013 Schools in the Southern Tier are apparently not included in recently announced plans to serve New York State produced Greek-style yogurt in public schools.
BOCES officials in Broome County say they were recently informed that the local districts in the system are not included in the pilot program that had been touted by U
August 6, 2013
August 1, 2013
August 1, 2013