Natalie Abruzzo
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Reporter and Producer at WSKG-TV (Vestal, NY)
Articles
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2 days ago |
wskg.org | Natalie Abruzzo
The Corning city council adopted the city’s 2026 budget on Monday. The $22.6 million budget comes with a nearly 5 percent tax levy, which exceeds the state tax cap. City council voted to override the tax levy limit with Local Law No. 2 of 2025. It is the first time in the history of the city the tax levy exceeded the tax cap. “We can tell our citizens that the city's being fiscally managed in a highly responsible way,” said Mayor Bill Boland.
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3 days ago |
wskg.org | Natalie Abruzzo
The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” bill last week, which calls for billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid. If the cuts go through, healthcare systems in the Southern Tier would be at risk of shuttering and residents could struggle to access care.
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4 days ago |
wskg.org | Natalie Abruzzo
Corning Incorporated announced a nearly $2 million grant award for the Corning-Painted Post (C-PP) school district on May 30 during a special school board meeting. The funding will help bridge a $2.2 million deficit in the new and reduced$144 millionschool budget. Voters rejected the first $147 million budget proposal last month. Superintendent Michelle Caulfield said that last year Corning Inc.
Almost all New York school budgets passed this year. In the Southern Tier, some were less successful
2 weeks ago |
wskg.org | Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo |Natalie Abruzzo
This week, voters approved 97 percent of school district budgets across New York. These budgets decide how much money a district has to spend this coming school year, and how much homeowners in the area will pay in school taxes. In the greater Binghamton area, all the budgets passed. But for some, it has been a bit more complicated.
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2 weeks ago |
wskg.org | Natalie Abruzzo
Preliminary election results from the Corning-Painted Post school district show that voters rejected all three ballot measures on Tuesday, including the nearly $147 million budget with an 8 percent tax levy increase. The budget received 40 percent of the vote. It needed 60 percent to pass. A ballot measure that would allow the district to spend $977,000 on new diesel-powered vehicles, including five school buses, failed by 99 votes.
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