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Jennifer Muniga has been executive director of Cameron Community Ministries, an Urban Outreach Community Center in the Lyell-Otis Neighborhood, since 2011. In that role, she sees first-hand the impact of poverty on youth, as 98 percent of neighborhood residents live ...

Many law firms are being inundated by questions from firms striving to comply with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order to close all non-essential businesses in an effort to slow down the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve been on the phone and ...

Anna E. Lynch has been managing partner of the law firm of Underberg & Kessler LLP since 2004. A member of Underberg & Kessler’s Health Care and Corporate & Business Practice Groups, Lynch represents hospitals, long-term care providers, physicians and ...

CaTyra Polland is a published author who wanted to use her love for words to help others. Toward that end, she took on the task of starting her own company while continuing to work full time. Polland started Love For ...

The Rochester region had a wide array of major news events in 2019. The year saw the completion of major projects such as the Golisano Autism Center and the Schottland Family Branch of the YMCA. ROC the Riverway also moved ...

Landsman Real Estate Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Landsman Development Corp., has been named Management Company of the Year 2019 by the Institute of Real Estate Management. Landsman was founded more than 45 years ago by late Rochester ...

Finger Lakes Ambulance EMS Inc. has announced the appointment of Albert L. Kalfass as executive director. Kalfass replaces Kathleen Greeley, who served as interim executive director after parent company G.W. Lisk completed a review of the ambulance service. Greeley joined ...

In an effort to familiarize 52 assistant accountants who joined the firm this week with the company’s philosophy, the new hires kicked off the holiday season Wednesday by crafting holiday cards to donate to Cardz for Kidz! Cardz for Kidz! ...

In most types of cancer, early detection through a screening process is crucial for effective cancer treatment and for the patient’s chances of survival. People in a high risk of cancer group need to have more frequent screening and must ...

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 ...

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 ...