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Six area arts establishments have been awarded $10,000 each in CARES Act funding to support staff salaries, fees for artists or contractual personnel and facilities costs. A total of $490,000 was awarded to 49 arts organizations in nine New York ...

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Excellus BlueCross Blue Shield will provide $600,000 in funding to food banks and food pantries across Upstate New York as part of its planned $162 million response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The ability to earn a paycheck and feed a ...

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DiBella’s Old Fashioned Submarines Inc. has not taken a backseat during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Rochester-based submarine sandwich restaurant company has retained the majority of its workforce, donated some $365,000 to food banks and fed more than one million people ...

Applications for a one-time rent assistance payment, covering up to four months rent, will be available for low-income tenants in New York. The COVID Rent Relief Program will make a direct payment to landlords or housing providers through funding from ...

The town of Irondequoit has awarded $145,000 in grants to local small businesses through the first round of its Revitalizing Irondequoit’s Small Business Economy. RISE funding has been awarded to 40 businesses to help retain employees and ease the financial ...

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With the coronavirus continuing to spread at a record pace across much of the country and with medical experts warning that there is no end in sight, Rep. Joe Morelle is proposing the creation of a federal contact-tracing jobs program. ...

Confidence among Upstate New York consumers continued to drop in the second quarter, although at not as steep a pace as in the first quarter, a quarterly report from Siena College Research Institute shows. Overall consumer sentiment, which includes current ...

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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 Park. 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 ...