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Doyle Security Systems Inc. has merged with Hilton’s ADG Security, adding some 1,800 new customers to its Henrietta response center. Doyle, a regional provider of residential and commercial security, fire and medical monitoring systems, has 120 employees and will add ...

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Trillium Health Inc. has received the largest grant in its history, enabling the organization to construct a $19.3 million mixed-use development. The state’s Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative (ESSHI) grant totals $20 million over 40 years, with $500,000 distributed annually ...

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The YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County has named Angela Panzarella as president and CEO. She had served as interim CEO since June 25. A 2019 Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and Women’s Council ATHENA Award finalist, Panzarella has a strong ...

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Recreational boaters on the Erie Canal will have another two years of toll-free travel, the New York State Canal Corp. board of directors announced this week. The tolls, which range from $25 to $100 depending on the size of the ...

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Fourteen months after stepping into the role of interim director of the Greater Rochester International Airport, Andrew Moore has been named to the permanent position of airport director. “I am thrilled to announce that Andy Moore will continue to pilot ...

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A sculpture by former Rochester artist Scott Small has been permanently installed on the grounds of the Metropolitan. Dancing Bear, a large bronze sculpture dedicated to Small’s late mother, Rochester artist Edith Lunt Small, commemorates her love of animals and ...

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A 27-year veteran of Hillside Family of Agencies has been tapped to lead the nonprofit agency. Maria Cristalli, who served as chief operating officer of the human services organization from January 2017 until July of this year, stepped into the ...

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It all started with the nooks and crannies. Foodlink Inc.’s first big donation, on Dec. 19, 1978, was a truckload of English muffins, donated when founder Tom Ferraro, who was working at the time for Action for a Better Community, ...

Brian Harding gets nearly 400 calls each week from local school districts looking for substitute teachers, one-to-one aides and paraprofessional educators, and there is no sign of that letting up anytime soon. “There’s such a shortage of teachers, and that ...

  The Rochester City School District has a chronic absenteeism problem that is more than double the state average and nearly double the national average. A report issued by the Hamilton Project at the start of the school year shows ...

Hundreds of disadvantaged students at Rochester’s Young Women’s College Prep Charter School have received unusual, but much needed, tech gadgets as part of a donation aimed at steering girls toward STEM careers. On Semiconductor’s affinity group STEM UP presented a ...

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Rochester’s East House has chosen a nonprofit veteran as its next leader. Kim Brumber, president and CEO of Volunteers of America Upstate New York, on Jan. 7 will step into her new role as president and CEO of East House, ...

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The 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival has booked its first two headline acts: the Steve Gadd Band and George Benson will play the 18th annual festival, which next year runs from June 21 through June 29. Gadd, a Rochester ...

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The family of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass plans to make Rochester the new home for the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. The announcement was made this week by Douglass’ great-great-great grandson, Kenneth Morris Jr., and his mother, Nettie Washington Douglass. The ...

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Harris Corp. has been awarded a $195 million contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to help build a flagship telescope. The project will support 160 Rochester-based jobs. The announcement comes on the heels of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer’s ...

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