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The Girl Scouts of Western New York (GSWNY) are partaking in a new nationwide Girl Scouts U.S.A. (GSUSA) initiative called  “Girl Scouts Love State Parks” on July 13-14. The idea is to bring scouts and their families into the outdoors ...

The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival announced today that Mike Birbiglia will be the comedy headliner, performing at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20 at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Two of Birbiglia’s shows—My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend and Thank God for Jokes—were ...

In the mid-1990s I was early on a legal career path that would eventually lead to becoming the general counsel for a multi-platform media company lauded as one of the success stories of the “.com days” and Nasdaq stock market. ...

The death of longtime U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter at age 88 in March was the top local business story in 2018, according to a Rochester Business Journal survey of readers and staff. Slaughter died March 16, a week after sustaining ...

R/ADWEEK, presented by the Rochester Advertising Federation, returns for its second year starting today. The five-day series of special events and programs features local and national creative leaders and speakers with a goal of inspiring and educating members of the ...

Today, the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals will honor those who give back their community in celebration of National Philanthropy Day. This year, 12 honorees will be lauded for their philanthropic efforts. Since 1986, National Philanthropy ...

Abby Reinhard of GP Flooring Solutions and Timothy Fournier of Conifer Realty won the Small Business Council of Rochester’s 2018 Business Person of the Year awards Thursday at a luncheon at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center. Reinhard ...

The cartoon that ran in the Friday, Oct. 19 issue of the Rochester Business Journal should never have been published. We take full responsibility and apologize for our mistake. It does not reflect the views of this publication or its staff....

This article was featured in RBJ’s Path to Excellence magazine published June 22, 2018. As a leader in a woman-owned organization, Jessica Savage knows the importance of encouraging women in their careers and developing their confidence and leadership skills. So ...

The Rochester Business Journal has honored business people of all age groups through its many awards programs. This candid conversation provides the opportunity for a recent Forty Under 40 winner to talk to a recent ICON Honors award winner about ...

As executive director of Connected Communities, a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and revitalizing the Beechwood and EMMA neighborhoods, LaShunda Leslie-Smith makes it a priority to get out into those communities as much as possible. “I am ...

Candidates have started to emerge to replace Louise Slaughter as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 25th District. But even once the field is set, the question of when someone will be elected remains. Gov. Andrew Cuomo can call ...

The flooding that ravaged the coastline of Lake Ontario was the top local business story of 2017, according to a Rochester Business Journal survey of readers. The flooding began in April after three big rainstorms caused the lake level to rise to more than a foot and a half above normal. Many people blamed the flooding on the International Joint Commission’s Plan 2014, which regulates water levels and flows for Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

Mary Cariola Children’s Center announces the following new board members: Marco Alteri, founder and CEO of All-American Home Care; Robert Baxter III, CEO of Waterford Development of Reston, Va.; Anne Francis M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of ...

The Rochester Business Journal is taking another exciting step forward in its digital transformation today: We are now a digital-first operation. The weekly print publication will continue to be packed with robust local business news, as it has been for ...