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Tom Golisano’s purchase of Greenlight Networks via a holding company, Grand Oak GLN, LLC, was approved by the Public Service Commission on Thursday, May 17. The deal was identified as crucial to enlarging Greenlight’s fiber optic network and creating financial stability ...

Rochester sits in a precarious spot between promise and struggle as far as the typical entrepreneur goes. A tech entrepreneur in the city is blessed with a wealth of resource and networking opportunities comparable to bigger markets, due to the ...

There are deep roots at the Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center, or CMAC for short. It’s a venue that, from its home near Canandaigua, has not just grown but thrived through recessions and regional economic shifts. The venue has ...

Tom Golisano has purchased Greenlight Networks after the deal for the Rochester-based broadband provider was approved by the state Public Service Commission. The sale of a controlling share of Greenlight to Golisano’s Grand Oaks GLN LLC occurred on May 17, ...

Every once in a while as a tech journalist, you stumble upon something that truly takes your breath away. Amid the stories on the newest cloud computing software, the latest in software as a service and, in Rochester, the litany ...

There are a lot of things to say about Black Button Distilling. They’re the first distillery to set up shop in Rochester since prohibition, opening in January 2014 next door to Rohrbach Brewing Company on Railroad Street, with the brewery ...

Do you have an idea for the next clean energy breakthrough? The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) wants to know. On Tuesday, May 15, NYSERDA announced a potential $10 million investment into a new “Cleantech” accelerator, ...

Mayor Lovely Warren has been tapped to join NewDEAL, or “developing exceptional American leaders,” an organization of 150 of the most progressive state and local Democratic leaders in the nation. One of nine handpicked to join the organization, Warren was ...

Alex Zapesochny, co-founder and former president and CEO of iCardiac,  has announced his application for the position of New York attorney general. A 1996 graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law, Zapesochny spent three years as a prosecutor in ...

Rochester Precision Optics has announced the promotion of Blair Unger to vice president of engineering. Unger joined the RPO team in 2015 as optical engineering manager, a position which placed him in charge of the company’s optical designers and Discovery ...

Rochester’s Vuzix, a manufacturer of augmented reality glasses, has seen a 28 percent increase in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the same time last year. Between Jan. 1 and March 31, Vuzix had a total of $1,543,895 in ...

It’s hard to miss some of the steps Rochester has taken to become a more bikeable city—from the Zagster, now Pace, bike share program to the designated bike lanes popping up along city streets. Now those steps are being recognized ...

Trillium Health took the Pathfinder Award for Team Excellence at the 12th annual Greater Rochester Quality Council (GRQC) Performance Excellence awards ceremony. The award recognizes Trillium’s efforts to reorganize and streamline access to care for patients over the past year. ...

Past the southern tip of Honeoye Lake you’ll find a region known as the Honeoye Inlet Wildlife Management Area. It’s a marshy, mud-strewn stretch populated by beavers, chirping birds of all stripes, croaking bullfrogs, the squeak of spring peepers and ...

If you support affordable senior housing, you must stand in opposition to Rochester Management’s proposal for the leveling and rebuilding of Cobbs Hill Village. Or maybe it’s the other way around; if you want sustainable, affordable senior housing, the development ...