Vestal

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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Police say a woman who was supposed to be overseeing the funds of a Vestal youth sports organization has been arrested after the money vanished.

Investigators say 47-year-old Sandra Scharnikow of Schuyler Street in the town of Union has been charged with grand larceny

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An aerial survey is planned to determine the deer population on the Binghamton University campus in the town of Vestal.

University president Harvey Stenger says infrared cameras will be used when a flyover is conducted over the nature preserve and some of the surrounding areas

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A public hearing is to be held Wednesday on a zoning change needed for construction of a skilled nursing facility in the town of Vestal.

The Vestal Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center had been located on Vestal Road until the facility sustained extensive damage in the September 2011 flood

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A joint session of Binghamton city councilmembers and Johnson City village trustees has been scheduled to discuss issues related to the sewage treatment plant in Vestal.

The special session is to be held Monday, January 28 at 5:00 p

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Vestal-based National Pipe and Plastics has received the green light from town of Union officials to move to West Endicott.

The company has been operating manufacturing facilities in Vestal and in Colfax, North Carolina

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A 54-year-old Vestal woman died this morning after she was found under the ice in the Susquehanna River near her home.

Authorities say Christine Mapes was pronounced dead at Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City

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There'll be no presidential candidate visits in Broome County between now and November 6. But some unsuspecting Binghamton-area residents were stunned to see the Mitt Romney campaign bus traveling in the region

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Hundreds of elementary students in the Vestal School District will be hearing some vital fire safety information over the next few days.

Representatives of the Vestal and Apalachin fire departments will visit the district's five elementary schools as part of Fire Safety Month activities

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Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger says most of the quotes in recent news stories about hazing involving Binghamton students included quotes that were "taken out of context, second-hand and anonymous

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