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“Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there is a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.” — Tim Cook The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many standard ...

COVID-19 is likely to change how senior living facilities and home care agencies operate in the long-term, area experts say, and many are already seeing an impact as people transition to the “new normal.” Among the changes they could see ...

In this upside-down world of COVID-19 almost no one is feeling normal. If you are helping an older parent or other family member as a full or part-time caregiver, you may be feeling extra anxious, stressed and overwhelmed. As if ...

DJ Goldstein said he has learned something each day of his 11 months as executive director of Legacy at Maiden Lane. In the past three months, one lesson has been reinforced daily. “Trust is important and I think transparency goes ...

Rochester Area Community Foundation has been awarded a $384,000 grant from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation to support small, home-based child care providers through its Small Grants for Small Children program. RACF will work with the Child Care Council ...

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The Rochester Housing Authority and Trillium Health have partnered to provide COVID-19 testing at some of RHA’s public housing sites using Trillium Health’s Mobile Access Clinic. The program will be used as a pilot in hopes of providing similar services at ...

Sidewalks are becoming sideeats in the city of Rochester. Arnett Café at 332 Arnett Blvd. has joined the list of businesses participating in Flower City Sidewalks, the city’s outdoor dining, shopping and business program created to spark economic recovery from ...

There is no question COVID-19 hit many small businesses hard, but not all businesses were adversely affected by the unfortunate arrival of COVID-19 in March. The following companies are examples of small businesses that found their services were needed even ...

As regions of New York State continue their phased re-openings, businesses of all sizes have prepared or are preparing to recall their employees to return to work — either physically or virtually. As with seemingly every aspect of the COVID-19 ...

While COVID-19 has been a hardship for nearly every small business, some silver linings have come out of the changes businesses have had to make as they navigate the new normal. Virginia Smith, branch manager at the U.S. Small Business ...

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, Franklin Roosevelt once said. That seems to be the mantra for many business owners these days, particularly for those who have been trying to steer their way through the rough seas caused ...

We are now more than halfway through a year we would all like to forget. As challenging as COVID-19 pandemic protocols have been for business and the community at large, the Rochester and Finger Lakes region has done things the ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded more than $2.3 million statewide to support local cultural nonprofits and educational programming, including more than $200,000 in awards to two area organizations. “Nonprofits and cultural organizations are critical parts of ...

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“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” When the pandemic started, many companies’ first thought was how do they reduce their overhead and sustain some sense of revenue. There was ...

Sadly, to date, New York State has experienced more than 25 percent of the United States’ total COVID-19-related deaths. To put things in perspective, if it was its own country, New York State would rank fifth among nations in deaths, ...