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Tonight, Friday, May 24, the Genesee Brewery is kicking off its 141st year celebration with the second round of ROC the Falls. ROC the Falls is a new festival first rolled out in September 2018 as a celebration of Genesee’s ...

Cantel Medical Corp. has announced plans to move the majority of the company’s dental manufacturing and distribution operations to their facility in Rush. Based in Little Falls, N.J., Cantel is a global company specializing in medical sterilization, including water purification, ...

On May 9, George Mateyo, Key Private Bank’s chief investment officer, visited Rochester’s Genesee Valley Club, giving a presentation on the state of the economy and investing. As far as questions about investment are concerned, the current economy raises many. ...

In the field of pathology, there’s no tool more critical than the humble microscope. For nearly 400 years, microscopes have been central to biological study, and though they’ve become infinitely more powerful—the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory TEAM 0.5, for example, can ...

After over two years of heated debate, it will ultimately be the citizens of Rochester who decide the fate of the Police Accountability Board. At their monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 21, the Rochester City Council voted unanimously in support ...

Monro Inc.’s fiscal year 2019 report shows record sales with an optimistic 2020 outlook. In the quarter ending March 30, Monro reported a 0.6 percent increase in sales compared to the same time last year, at $287.2 million, a $1.6 million ...

John Riedman, entrepreneur and active philanthropist in the Rochester area, died Saturday, May 18 at 90. A native of Rochester’s 19th Ward and longtime Irondequoit resident, Mr. Riedman made his mark in Rochester with the Riedman Corp., which at its peak ...

KeyBank has announced a total investment of $211.4 million in the Rochester area through the bank’s Community Benefits Plan. Rolled out in 2017, the Community Benefits Plan is a five-year project with a $16.5 billion budget, about 5 percent of ...

Aaron Newman is freshly back in Rochester via Nepal, where he hit 20,000 feet on his first attempt at ascending Mt. Everest. He didn’t quite make the summit, which stands a hair over 29,000 feet, but his attempt at his ...

If you’ve had your New York driver’s license renewed in the past six years, you’re holding in your wallet what is considered one of the most secure licenses in the country. Thirty different security features are peppered around the polycarbonate ...

County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has declared a state of emergency in a a number of local waterways as levels are projected to rise. The warning pertains to the Lake Ontario shoreline, Irondequoit Bay, the Genesee River and Braddock Bay. Since ...

Five Star Bank has launched Progress in Action, a community benefits plan aimed at addressing neighborhood-specific projects. Progress in Action is a unique community benefits plan in that it’s neighborhood-specific. Five Star itself has pledged a minimum of $25,000 and ...

The conversation around birth control and contraception is often reserved for behind closed doors. In public forums, it's a topic people are squeamish about. Open dialogues are often stifled, politicized or overly sanitized.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has made grants to 11 Rochester-area nonprofits in the 2019 Community Health Awards. The Community Health Awards are a statewide initiative aimed at supporting organizations aimed at improving community health, from drug treatment to maternal resources. Each ...

Rochester Drug Co-operative, or RDC, has hired two new expert Controlled Substance Act compliance advisers. It’s a hiring that follows up on a $20 million settlement made on federal charges against RDC for failure to comply with the Controlled Substance ...