Ilion

Remington, the nation’s oldest gun maker, is closing its facility in Ilion, New York in March. About 300 people work at the site in the Herkimer County village where the company was founded in 1816.

Remington, which started making flintlock rifles more than 200 years ago, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company has longstanding ties to…

New York state Assemblyman Marc Butler, a Republican from the sprawling 118th District, will not run for re-election in 2018. Butler was first elected in…

Local officials say the Remington Arms Co. has laid off 55 workers at its upstate New York plant.Ilion Mayor Terry Leonard tells the Observer-Dispatch of…

Two New York state lawmakers say more than 100 workers at the Remington Arms manufacturing plant in the Mohawk Valley are being laid off as the company…