Victor, N.Y., June 30, 2010 - Finger Lakes Technologies Group, Inc. has hired the following to their staff:

• Bill Barren as Voice Field Engineer.   Barren brings 10 years of experience to his new position, in which he implements and supports Voice IPT projects as well as routing, switching and firewall projects. He is a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and a Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA).  The Colden, N.Y. resident previously worked as a senior infrastructure analyst at Curbell Inc.

• Brenden Griswold as Account Representative.  Brenden handles sales and customer service. He previously worked as an outside plant technician at Ontario and Trumansburg Telephone Companies, FLTG’s parent companies. The Victor, N.Y. resident is a communications major at Monroe Community College.

• Jessica Nava as a Senior Account Manager.  In this role, she will develop and manage customer relationships. Nava previously worked with XO Communications as a major account executive. The Canandaigua N.Y. resident holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Marketing from Drexel University.

• Jessica Poland as a Sales Coordinator.   In her new role, she assists account managers with preparing estimates and obtaining pricing and availability. Poland brings to the position nine years of customer service and in-tech distribution experience. A resident of North Tonawanda, N.Y., Poland previously worked as a vendor licensing specialist at Ingram Micro.

BUFFALO, N.Y., June 8, 2010 — To accommodate business growth, Finger Lakes Technologies Group Inc. is relocating its Buffalo-area office into the Wurlitzer Building in North Tonawanda, N.Y.

This month, the company will move into office space in the Wurlitzer Building located on U.S. Route 62, Niagara Falls Blvd. FLTG will announce plans soon for an open house ceremony.

“We are excited to move into the famous Wurlitzer Building,” said Paul H. Griswold, president and CEO, Finger Lakes Technologies Group. “This relocation will give us additional square footage and help accommodate new business growth. We look forward to making business history in this treasured facility.”  

During the 1910s, Wurlitzer began making its famous Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organs in the building. In later years, the facility was the manufacturing site for radios, jukeboxes and electric organs. Today, the Wurlitzer Building provides businesses with a variety of classic office and retail space, as well as warehousing and light manufacturing

Finger Lakes Technologies Group, Inc. is proud to announce that they are featured in the May issue of Forbes Magazine.  FLTG is in a special section about Upstate New York Businesses and how they are looking for new ways to serve their customers.

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Romulus, New York, November 11, 2009

"They’re triple fenced, you can't get in. No one can get in here during the day or night or anything else. There's cameras here, it’s all secured down, so it’s a perfect place to put this thing," President and CEO Paul Griswold said.

The fiberoptic, data networking solutions company is one of a half dozen that have moved onto the more 10,000 plus site since the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) took it over in 2000.

While the former munitions storage and disposal facility has useful infrastructure – like rail, water, sewer, a functional airfield and fiber connectivity – firms that promote business growth in the region say that's not enough.

They say the depot's power lines need to be replaced to produce enough power to attract big business.

"We've had inquiries from major manufactures and one of their key needs is to draw large amounts of power,” Matthew Hurlbutt, Greater Rochester Enterprise managing director of business development said.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer met with local leaders in government, business and business development at the depot Thursday.

He said he will propose making investment in the depot part of NYSEG's economic development plan.

"NYSEG was taken over by a big company they made commitments that they were gonna pay attention to upstate New York. Well, this would be the best way they could show that, or one of the best ways they could show that by wiring here, so we have adequate electricity. If we have electricity and we broadband we can bring some jobs here,” Senator Schumer said.

NYSEG is currently negotiating rate increases with the Public Service Commission.

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Finger Lakes Technologies Group, Inc. to provide Internet services to Ithaca College

Trumansburg and Ontario Telephone Companies' FLTG Subsidiary becomes a CLEC

Trumansburg, N.Y., March 25, 2008 — Trumansburg and Ontario Telephone Companies are expanding into the Ithaca market, bring a century of telephone experience and a host of services offered by their Finger Lakes Technologies Group, Inc. subsidiary.

Paul Griswold leads Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone, which as a trio of telecom firms

Victor, N.Y., February 8, 2008 — Hovey Griswold’s purchases of the Ontario Telephone Co. Inc. in 1920 and of the Trumansburg Home Telephone Co. some six years later were deals considerably more modest in scope than the multibillion-dollar mergers more recently seen as the fragments of Bell system rejoined to create giants such as Verizon Communications Inc.