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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, ...

Despite being dealt a double whammy of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary closure of the iconic Lift Bridge, officials and businesses in the village of Fairport say they are not losing steam and are instead well prepared ...

A pop-up drive-in theater is coming to Henrietta. Birnbaum Properties is usually focused on creating office, mixed-use or flex space within the commercial real estate marketplace. But president and CEO Bernard Birnbaum, together with Dr. Joshua Weitz, has ventured into ...

LiDestri Foods Inc. plans to donate $1 million in medical-grade hand sanitizer this summer to camps and school districts to keep staff and campers safe. Company officials on Monday said LiDestri has donated 6,000 gallons of hand sanitizer so far, ...

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The city of Rochester will reinstate parking fees at meters and downtown garages beginning Wednesday, ending a three-month hiatus that was prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. Fees were waived starting April 1 to lessen hardships during the COVID-19 outbreak. The regular ...

The toughest assignment in 2020 sports has nothing to do with stopping Patrick Mahomes on third-and-one or pitching to Mike Trout with the bases loaded. No, the toughest assignment is trying to figure out how to keep those super-duper stars ...

Larger spaces with greater flexibility, improved indoor ventilation and more outdoor walkways could be an integral part of urban design post-COVID 19, Rochester area experts say. Robert Fornataro, design director for SWBR, says the urban design process is evolving as ...

As the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to shut down and offices to shift into work-from-home mode, the future of commercial real estate’s office sector came into question. If productivity remained high from employees working remotely, then why couldn’t this be ...

If you’d have asked a member of the Canandaigua Academy Class of 2020 what they’d be doing in late June, the answer would have likely included mention of a cap and a gown and walking across a stage to accept ...