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Arc of Yates Sept. 25: The Keuka Lake Relay Rally was held at Keuka Lake State Park. The event drew runners from across the state (and Pennsylvania).  More than $26,000 was raised for Arc of Yates programs. The event is a ...

Local private sector employers added an average of 3.1 jobs per day during the 10 years from September 2006 to September 2016, entitling the Rochester metro area to a rank of 72 among 106 major U.S. metro areas, according to ...

I’ve always been fascinated with the origins of sports teams’ nicknames, so my interest was piqued when I heard about the recent name changes of minor league baseball franchises in Jacksonville, Fla., and Binghamton. Although I’m not a big fan ...

I come to praise active management, not to bury it. Active management has been much maligned recently, including in this column, because of the increasing dominance of index investing over active stock picking. Indeed, according to estimates from Morningstar, actively ...

“Charles, why are there a dozen bowls of water in the backyard?” she asked. “The dogs are thirsty,” Dad explained. He always was a soft touch—dogs could always hustle the last bite of cookie. Now he was seeing friendly dogs ...

As another year-end approaches, the demands placed on the members of a board of directors are often vastly increased by the seemingly annual sprint to close transactions by Dec. 31. When coupled with the personal commitments of this time of ...

Have you ever encountered a nasty boss? You know who I mean. The kind of arrogant, thoughtless jerk who occasionally exhibits any one of a wide range of unsavory character traits. These are the sort who are often disrespectful, dishonest, ...

Fairport Baptist Homes Sept. 17: Fairport Baptist Homes held its fourth annual 2016 Step Up For Seniors fundraising walk. The event raised more than $12,000 for seniors and their programs and services provided by Fairport Baptist Homes. Iron Angel Memorial ...

He had always been philanthropic, so when Major League Baseball officials asked Dave Winfield to speak to young players at a symposium near the end of his career in the mid-1990s, he jumped at the opportunity as if it were ...

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” —Peter Drucker The three presidential debates that I watched with my wife, Betsy, served as the core idea for the topic of this column. In a touch of irony, ...

“I have been out on three months of maternity leave. I had originally planned to return to my management job on a full-time basis. But going back to those long hours and 60-plus hour workweeks will put a significant strain ...

In a recent speech at the Boston Federal Reserve, Fed chair Janet Yellen shed some light on the Federal Open Market Committee’s assessment of the current U.S. economic situation, saying the Fed was “struggling” to understand the nature of the ...

WEEKEND BESTBETS 1 Standup comic Sebastian Maniscalco is in town for two shows—at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Nov. 4—at Rochester Auditorium Theatre. Maniscalco was seen in an episode of “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee” with Jerry Seinfeld. ticketmaster.com 2 The ...

R Community Bikes Inc. collects and repairs used bicycles for distribution without charge to needy children and adults in Rochester. Its mission is to provide safe, basic transportation for people in the community who depend on bikes for recreation as ...

The Society for the Protection and Care of Children, known as SPCC, was founded as the Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1875 when animal abuse laws existed but child abuse laws did not. SPCC was ...