Historian to speak
ONEONTA _ Dr. William B. Taylor will present "Images and Immanence in Colonial Mexico" at 4 p.m. Friday in the Eaton Lounge of Bresee Hall on the Hartwick College campus.
This event is free and open to the public.
A reception will follow the presentation.
A historian of Mexico, Taylor is the Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
Taylor's recent research interests include sacred movement, place-making, sacred things and shrines to miraculous images in Mexico and western Europe since the 16th century.
Taylor's talk, which will open the 2009-10 National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture Series titled "Art, Literature, and Religion across the Humanities," is sponsored by the Humanities Division of Hartwick College.
For more information, contact Associate Professor of History Mieko Nishida at 431-4839 or nishidam@hartwick.edu.
{"headline18"/}Grant helps Cobleskill firm
COBLESKILL _ Deborah VanAmerongen, commissioner of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, recently announced a $100,000 Community Development Block Grant Award for an area business.
According to a media release, the grant will help MESA Technical Associates Inc. of Cobleskill create seven full-time equivalent jobs, six of which will be available to low- and moderate-income workers.
MESA Technologies provides power backup systems for the telecommunications and utility industries and various industrial markets.
The grant is the first awarded under New York's new Small Business Assistance Program, officials said, and it will assist the company in purchasing new equipment.
The NYS CDBG program is federally funded and administered by DHCR's Office of Community Renewal.
{"headline18"/}Job Corps head named to council
ONEONTA _ Gov. David Paterson has announced the appointment of John Henry Young, director of the Oneonta Job Corps Center, to the College Council of the State University College at Oneonta.
His term will run through June 30, 2011.
Since 2008, Young has directed, supervised and managed the administration of all academic, vocational, business and fiscal operations of the Oneonta Job Corps Center, which is operated by Chugach Alaska Corporation.
The center has a student body of 370, as well as 150 faculty and staff members.
Young served as the center director from 2005-06 when the center was operated by Dynamic Educational Systems Inc./KRA Corp., and has worked with Job Corps centers across the country since 1976.
Each state-operated campus in the SUNY system has its own college council.
College Councils have specific statutory powers, such as naming buildings and making regulations regarding student conduct.
The members of each council are appointed by the governor with the exception of the student representative, who is elected by the student body.
{"headline18"/}Flood aid offered to Chenango
Gov. David Paterson recently announced that Chenango County has been approved to receive federal disaster assistance as a result of August's storms and flooding.
In a media release, Paterson said extensive damage in Chenango and Cortland counties prompted the Federal Emergency Management Agency to add these two counties to the disaster declaration.
Chenango County communities are eligible to receive federal funds for 75 percent of the costs of emergency measures taken during Aug. 8-10, as well as for debris removal and repair or replacement of public property.
Officials said damage assessments identified more than $600,000 in damages in Chenango County.
Chenango and Cortland counties join Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Erie counties in the disaster declaration.
More information is available online at www.disasterassistance.gov, or by calling (800) 621-3362.
