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Airbnb’s Finger Lakes host community earned a combined $3.6 million and welcomed some 17,100 guests during the biggest weekends last summer. Airbnb, the world’s leading community-driven hospitality company, said during the five biggest weekends of 2019, hosts in the Finger Lakes ...

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Five residential homes as well as Community Habilitation services have been transferred to Lifetime Assistance Inc. from Grace Lutheran Residential Services Inc. Lifetime Assistance has taken over operations of the living facilities, which provide homes for 37 residents. The residences ...

13thirty Cancer Connect Inc. on Monday began its 20th anniversary year with an annual tradition that began in its founder’s kitchen: a pancake breakfast. “Twenty years ago I made a promise to my daughter, Melissa, to make a difference, make ...

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U.S. senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have sounded the alarm about the Federal Communications Commission excluding New York State in its new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The  initiative will allocate $20.4 billion to connect rural homes and small businesses to high-speed, ...

The Ibero-American Action League Inc. has launched an online donation campaign to help those affected by recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. The Rochester not-for-profit already has helped two dozen households who have relocated to Rochester since a magnitude 4.7 earthquake ...

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A dynamic economy has been the driving force in declining vacancy rates in all four commercial real estate sectors in the Rochester metropolitan area, according to the managing director of CBRE Rochester. CBRE’s annual Real Estate Market Outlook showed vacancies in ...

In an effort to better reflect all it does as a brand experience agency, Webster-based Mirror Show Management has changed its name to MSM Inc. When the firm was founded in 1993 by Donna Shultz, the Mirror Show name was ...

The owners of Juicy Seafood in Henrietta have opened a second Rochester-area location, in the Mall at Greece Ridge. Greece’s new King Crab Juicy Seafood offers the same fusion of Vietnamese and Cajun food as the Henrietta location, focusing on ...

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Heritage Wind is moving forward on its plans for a 33-tower wind farm in the Orleans County town of Barre and just gave public notice that it plans to submit a construction application to the state Jan. 31. The project ...

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Aquinas Institute has a new president: Anthony S. Cook III, a 1999 graduate of the Catholic school and formerly the superintendent of schools of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester. Cook returned to his alma mater in September as executive ...

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Rochester’s first live weekend morning television newscasts are coming to NEWS10NBC (WHEC-TV) starting on Saturday. The station will add two live hours of news on Saturday and Sunday. The first NEWS10NBC Today hour runs from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. ...

Rochester Museum & Science Center is challenging the community to reflect on how racist media influences people’s lives through a new permanent exhibition. “Objectively Racist: How Objects and Images Perpetuate Racism … And What We Can Do To Change It” ...

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Forty years ago, “I’d rather be in Rochester” was the slogan for a Rochester Chamber of Commerce marketing campaign. Visit Rochester will tell you that, based on four events this weekend, the slogan is still true. Nearly 7,000 people are ...

ESL Federal Credit union will issue $20 million in owners’ dividends Friday, Jan. 17, – the largest in the 24 years the credit union has been providing dividends. “We are committed to living our purpose of ‘helping our community thrive ...

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Foreclosure activity in the Rochester metro area in 2019 fell to the lowest levels since at least 2006, the first year for which ATTOM Data Solutions has statistics for default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. There were 1,881 housing ...