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The KeyBank Foundation has announced a $50,000 pledge to OWN Rochester. OWN Rochester is an independent, community-based nonprofit committed to establishing worker-owned co-operative businesses in Rochester, specifically in the city’s most economically challenged areas, founded by Mayor Lovely Warren and ...

The move to a senior living facility can be one of the most difficult experiences in most people’s lives. It can strain family bonds, drain seniors’ wealth and, for the facilities themselves, place them in the challenging role of being ...

On Aug. 5, 2005, Hunter Kelly, the son of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, lost the battle against globoid-cell Leukodystrophy, or Krabbe Disease. Hunter was 8 years old, a child who had lived a life six years longer than ...

The proposed $200 million Golisano Entertainment Complex is now being referred to as the “Riverside Performing Arts Center Project,” as billionaire Tom Golisano has pulled his support from the project. Golisano had originally pledged $25 million for the project proposed ...

Familiar faces won many of the races in New York in Tuesday’s election, especially locally. Democrat Joe Morelle was tapped to fill the 25th Congressional District seat left vacant by the late Louise Slaughter earlier this year. Morelle, 61, has ...

What do cardboard, soldering irons and a giant metallic fire-breathing dragon appropriately named Heavy Meta have in common? Not much really, but they all find themselves right at home at the Rochester Maker Faire. Going into its fifth year, the ...

As the send-off to the county’s first Budget Week, the 2019 proposed Monroe County budget has been revealed, with the first county-wide property tax cut in 10 years. The budget is a sprawling 773-page, $1.2 billion document that marks a ...

County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has announced a new partnership between Imagine Monroe, The Entrepreneur’s Network (TEN) and Chloe Capital aimed at attracting woman-owned tech businesses to Rochester. Chloe Capital is a venture capital firm aimed at providing seed money to ...

  Flower City Solutions is set to bring the NYHempLab, an educational event based around the hemp industry, to St. John Fisher’s Wegmans School of Pharmacy. Slated for Saturday, Nov. 17, the event will bring together prominent researchers, stakeholders and ...

The City of Rochester is testing  app-based parking meters from two companies, with a final decision to be made based on public input. A series of meters has been placed around hot spots in Rochester, marked with a sticker, asking users ...

    The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Computing Weekend is set to play host to a special visitor: the IBM X-Force Command Tactical Operation Center (C-TOC). The C-TOC is a new initiative made up of a fully operational security operations ...

A new lawsuit filed against West Henrietta-based augmented reality company Vuzix alleges a scheme of purchasing promotional articles to artificially inflate the value of the company. Vuzix is the producer of augmented reality glasses for the consumer and industrial markets, ...

In one month’s time, the team at Innovative Solutions will move to their new digs at the Riverwood Tech Campus, a 350,000-square-foot former Eastman Kodak site off East River Road in Henrietta that has lain dormant for about 30 years. ...

Albany-based FirstLight Fiber Optics has announced a plan to add 500 route-miles of fiber optics in Rochester and Buffalo. The project is described as meeting a specific customer demand for fiber optic services in Upstate New York. FirstLight was acquired ...

High Probability Advisors is teaming up with the Bonadio Group to provide a new, factor-based strategy in advisement. Dubbed a “Moneyball”-like strategy, the new investment method will zero in on different components known to improve the health of investments, while at ...