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Nearly 10,000 Amish and about 900 conservative Mennonites have moved to New York since 2001, including many who migrated to Central New York.
The reason? Cheap land on which to start farms and businesses.

Fidelis Care is partnering with Ridge Mills Physician Services to help uninsured residents of Oneida County apply for quality, free or low-cost health insurance coverage.

Fidelis Care representatives will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, March 15, at Ridge Mills Physician Services, 7901 Ridge Mills Road, Rome.

Two very scientific sisters came out on top at Utica College's 35th annual Regional Science Fair on Saturday.
 

Lee Maley and Jamie Burling leaned against a police barricade at the corner of Varick and Edward streets drinking beers and wearing green.

Verona town officials needed 51 percent of property owners in the hamlet of Verona to support a sewer district that would cost them $1,000 to hook up to and an annual fee of $750.

Scott Kulman had no small task in front of him at Mohawk Valley Community College’s first-ever NanoDays event – teaching youngsters how computers store information.

Good times.
Besides the color green and people celebrating their Irish heritage, it was the thing arguably most in abundance Saturday during the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.

A four-hour standoff overnight Friday resulted in a village resident being taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation, village police said.

DNA evidence has led to the arrest of an Ilion woman in connection with a June 2012 burglary case, Utica police said.