How the Comets ended up in Utica, twice
Utica got the Comets in 2013 as a Vancouver affiliate, lost that franchise in 2021, and kept the name with a New Jersey Devils team.
Business
Shops, farms, makers and employers in the Clinton area and the wider Utica region.
The Aud: a 1960 roof that still holds up Utica’s hockey business
The Utica Memorial Auditorium was built with the world's first pre-stressed dual cable roof. It is now the center of the city's sports and events business.
The chip plant in Marcy and what it is meant to make
Wolfspeed opened a silicon carbide fabrication plant in Marcy in 2022 with major state support. Here is what the company makes and why it chose the Mohawk Valley.
Sherrill, New York’s smallest city, is still the Silver City
Sherrill was founded in 1916 by a special act and still answers in part to the town of Vernon. Its nickname comes from the silverware made there.
The Erie Canal got its start just west of Rome
The surveyors who laid out the canal west of Rome in 1817 and 1818 included a young axeman named John B. Jervis, who went on to be one of the country's top…
New York Mills was built on cloth
A small mill opened in 1808, and the village that grew around it became one of the country's known producers of quality fabric.
Clark Mills took its name from a mill on Oriskany Creek
The Kirkland hamlet grew up around a textile mill founded about 1845 by the Clark brothers. The plush mill ran until 1949.
The Utica company that found a use for a rare metal
Indium Corporation started in 1934 in Utica after two Oneida Community chemists spent years looking for practical uses of indium.
Hotel Utica: Judy Garland slept here, and then it closed
The 1912 hotel hosted presidents and movie stars, closed in 1972, and reopened in 2001 after a restoration. It is now a Doubletree.
Remington and Ilion, a two-century connection
Eliphalet Remington built his first rifle in 1816 and moved his shop to Ilion in 1828. The company became one of the oldest gun makers in the country.
Oneida silverware began with a 19th-century commune
The tableware company traces back to the Oneida Community, a religious commune founded in 1848 that became a joint-stock company in 1881.
Turning Stone opened in 1993 as a business for the Oneida Nation
The Verona resort was the only land-based casino in New York until 2002 and was built to fund the Oneida Indian Nation's development.
