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Jan. 24– TUPPER LAKE– The Tupper Lake Village Board has voted to move the fire siren to the new Emergency Services Building. The decision came after a month-long trial without a siren. “Last month, we were debating whether to relocate to the siren from the fire station at 21 High Street to the new emergency service facility at 21 Santa Clara Ave.,” Village Clerk Mary…

And is the good driver check available in North Carolina? Actor Steve Tom handles those duties and has for more than three years. Flo, the perky white-clad saleswoman in Progressive Insurance ads, is played by Stephanie Courtney, an actress and comedian who’s had the job since 2008.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2016/ PRNewswire-iReach/– Autocarinsurancecheap.com has released a new blog post explaining how to make auto insurance cheaper. Making auto insurance cheaper is something that every car owner wants to do. Fortunately, now there are many ways in which a car owner can reduce his or her coverage expenses.

Jan. 24– Since the start of 2016, the city of Lockport’s budget line for outside legal counsel fees has been reduced drastically. Originally, $150,000 was budgeted for those costs but now that’s down to just $28,871, according to Director of Finance Scott Schrader. Money has been pulled out of the budgeted counsel line over the last three weeks by the Common…

Jan. 24– There are a series of upcoming job fairs with openings in the fields of logistics, health care, construction and more. Below, the Journal-News spells out the details for attending these events:. Nonprofit Cedar Village Retirement Community, located at 5467 Cedar Village Drive in Mason, is holding a job fair Tuesday, Jan. 26.

Jan. 24– The bids are in, and it looks like an “aggressive” pitch will land Cigna the contract for Hamilton County’s employee health insurance for the sixth year in a row. They got a briefing last week from County Mayor Jim Coppinger and human resources staff on the bids from Cigna and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Cigna’s proposal chops $300,000 in…

Jan. 24– For about a year, Medicare and Tricare, the insurance program for military personnel, paid two local pharmacies more than $50 million, about half of which was given to a marketing firm now under federal criminal investigation, according to court records. Frank V. Monte, president of the marketing firm Centurion Holdings, called himself “the Wolf of Wesley…

Jan. 24– Two Missouri legislators have crafted bills that could allow many health insurance plans to limit consumers’ access to specialty physicians. Currently, Missouri law only allows closely regulated HMO plans to have gatekeepers. “This is a big deal,” said Sidney Watson, health law professor at St. Louis University’s School of Law.

Jan. 24– Medical facilities around Lubbock assembled operation plans for Winter Storm Goliath several days in advance. Throughout the week, the Covenant Health campus was buzzing about “what ifs” associated with the snow and setting plans in place in case the predicted heavy snowfall became a reality. As the largest forecasted blizzard in more than three…

Staying on the road to safety may be harder for many elderly drivers than they realize. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, senior citizens account for only 9 percent of the population, but almost 14 percent of fatal traffic accidents. As people age, their driving patterns change.

Jan. 23– Limestone County Schools Superintendent Tom Sisk said recent stories in the state and national press about Alex Hoover, a terminally ill East Limestone teen, suggest the boy was not allowed in a classroom because of his condition, but this was never the case. When he entered hospice care, Rene Hoover began discussions with the school system about Alex’s…

Thirteen months after the fire, 2 Ten Coffee Roasters is not only still in business, it’s growing from its new base at 3007 Montana in the Five Points area of Central El Paso, where Seham’s House of Coffee had been located. Svoboda, 33, is co-owner and director of operations for 2 Ten, which began five years ago as a West Side drive-through coffee shop licensed under…

Jan. 24– All over the Lehigh Valley, people went to sleep Friday night anticipating the season’s first snowstorm, which promised to be a doozy. Reminiscent of the epic January 1996 blizzard, which produced the previous record of 25.6 inches of snow in the Lehigh Valley, this storm generated blizzard conditions for a couple hours Saturday, according to National…

Something was intruding into his Wichita home, but it wasn’t a person: Back-to-back 4.7 and 4.8 earthquakes had just struck Oklahoma near the Kansas border. The two quakes had convinced Banks that, after two years of Kansas quakes and several more in Oklahoma, it was time to look for earthquake insurance. Insurance companies collected more than $6.7 million in…

Jan. 23– “The only way you’re going to know… is by asking.” At some point, in normal parent-child relationships, the power dynamic flips. “It’s not looking at how you die, but it’s how you live to the end of your life,” said said Phyllis Greenberg, associate professor in the gerontology department at St. Cloud State University.

Jan. 23– SHARON– No one was hurt in a fire at about 9 p.m. Thursday that heavily damaged the house at 514 McClure Ave. in Sharon. Amber Hipkins, who lived in the two-story house with her mother, Susan Hipkins, was asleep and alerted by the family’s dog, fire Chief Bob Fiscus said. Flames were coming out of the windows when firefighters from Sharon and Farrell arrived.

Jan. 23– The National Weather Service has upgraded the winter storm with a blizzard warning for the Lehigh Valley and snowfall totals of up to 30 inches. More than 9 inches of snow were on the ground in Allentown at 8 a.m. Saturday and much more was expected as the brunt of the storm shifted to the Lehigh Valley. With 9.4 inches of snow recorded at Lehigh Valley…

Republicans have been vowing to gut the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obaiflacare”, since 2010, when the then Democratic-majority Congress passed the landmark program designed to provide health care for millions of uninsured Americans- over the united opposition of Republicans. The House has voted to dismantle Obamacare dozens of times, but…