CORINTH, N.Y. – Hudson River Community CU plans to build a $2.8 million operations center that will employ 50 people at the former International Paper Co. site in Corinth.

WESTERLY, R.I. – The Federal Home Loan bank of Boston has awarded Westerly Community CU a $100,000 grant to help low- and moderate-income households with home ownership.

DENVER – An employee at the Public Service CU branch here arrived at work Saturday morning to find the branch in disarray and a bloodied and disoriented man on the floor, presumed to be a robber.

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia CU, which is filming a series of TV commercials, rolled out its latest spot featuring a real-life mother and son singing and dancing to the credit union’s original song, “We Belong Together.”

PORTLAND, Ore. – A technology teacher at a local high school won a year’s mortgage payments Friday, as OnPoint Community CU, formerly Portland Teachers CU, named its Educator of the Year.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Credit unions are urging NCUA to delay enactment of its new rule scrapping ratings by Wall Street agencies as a requirement for investments until the agency replaces the traditional ratings benchmark with definitive guidance.

WASHINGTON – NCUA on Friday told a federal court here it seized Vensure FCU three weeks ago after it realized the tiny Arizona credit union was nothing more than a conduit for billions of dollars of online gambling bets.

Credit Union Journal is now accepting entries for its 2011 Best Practices Awards. As always, we have made the Awards very easy to enter. The awards are free to enter, and are open to natural-person and corporate credit unions, CUSOs, and vendors and associations, which may nominate a client/member credit union.

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SAN DIMAS, Calif. – WesCorp FCU, the newly chartered United Resources FCU, plans to begin solicitation soon for as much as $250 million in new capital, the corporate said this afternoon.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Advantage FCU, in partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology, has pledged $100,000 to a scholarship fund for RIT students in Monroe and adjoining counties.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Teachers CU is partnering with the Plymouth Speedway for the 2011 race season, allowing members discounted tickets to racing events.

ATLANTA, Ga. – Associated CU has added EZDeposit to its suite of online banking services, enabling home or office users to deposit checks remotely using a scanner.

PEORIA, Ill. – CEFCU has licensed online and mobile banking, new account opening, and out-of-band authentication solutions from S1 Corp.

WHITEFISH, Mont. – Whitefish CU said yesterday it signed with Safe Systems to implement the company’s IT management solution, NetComply, as well as supplementary products to generate institution-wide efficiencies and cost savings.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates fell for the third consecutive week, with the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages declining along with bond yields, according to Freddie Mac.

HOUSTON – Cardtronics said this week TA Associates, the venture fund that financed the creation of the nation’s largest ATM operator, severed its ties with the company after it sold most of its shares, with Michael Wilson, managing director of the Boston investment firm, resigning from the Cardtronics board.