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During the first wave of COVID-19 in the spring of this year, assisted living communities across New York state reacted swiftly and comprehensively to minimize the spread of the virus within. Adult Care Facilities were mandated to test all staff ...

A new grant program for locally owned small businesses in Irondequoit impacted by the recent Orange Zone designation has been implemented by the town. Under the new Phase II initiative of Revitalizing Irondequoit’s Small business Economy (RISE), small businesses located ...

Rochester’s EZaccessMD will begin rapid mobile in-home COVID-19 testing, the first service of its kind. EZaccessMD is the first and only mobile, employer-based subscription telehealth provider that brings rapid diagnostics to a patient’s home and now will offer free COVID-19 ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted financial institutions’ strategies for their branches, from what services are provided on-site to their hours of operation, and for some, has accelerated the development of long-term changes that were underway prior to the outbreak. Marcelina ...

Area banks have been showing empathy to their customers who are facing financial hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic while, at the same time, making sound business decisions for their own financial success. Dan Burns, president of M&T’s ...

Business owners, already coping with what for some has been a monumental loss in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic, could face another gut-punch to the bottom line unless Congress acts soon to reverse an Internal Revenue Service ruling. Properly paid ...

The New York State Main Street Program administered by the state Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) is accepting applications until Jan. 15th. The federally funded program is typically part of the annual Consolidated Funding Application round but will run differently ...

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Small businesses in Monroe County may face an even more dire short-term existence as the exponential spread of COVID-19 continues, especially if the public doesn’t adhere to suggested precautionary protocols. Those were the blunt warnings from Monroe County Executive Adam ...

As Wesley René was working on a corporate transaction since February, his client was hoping to be able to close on the transaction in October. But looming over the transaction was the fact his client had a Paycheck Protection Program ...

We all know more seven months into this pandemic than we did at the outset, including businesses seeking legal redress for business disruption, breach of contract, insurance protection and business loss. It has been more than five months since my ...

Josh Whetzel sits at the kitchen table of his Brighton apartment, talking into a microphone as the University at Buffalo men’s basketball game unfolds before him on his laptop screen. Were this a normal year, he’d be in the arena, ...

At Alfred University, we have yet to run across a college student during these COVID months who does not long for a return to the Old Norm of good old-fashioned classroom instruction. COVID has resulted in colleges pivoting to a significantly ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is playing a role in significant changes a business may be considering, from completing a merger or acquisition to buying out a business partner. Katarina Polozie, a partner in the business and finance department at Woods Oviatt Gilman ...

Relief for renters and property owners in the EMMA and Beechwood neighborhoods of Rochester will be available thanks to a $250,000 grant to Connected Communities by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. The investment by the foundation created two funds to help renters ...

The Advocacy Coalition of Rochester Area Chambers (ACRAC) is encouraging its member businesses and other organizations to take precautions during an upswing in COVID-19 cases in the Finger Lakes Region. “ACRAC is not interested in taking political sides on this ...

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