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Her father saved baseball in Rochester and, years later, her mother made sure a family vision lived on by chairing the board of directors of Rochester Community Baseball. Naomi Silver, however, never saw herself becoming a baseball executive. The heir ...

The Inn on the Lake is being reborn as a house. A very big house. The Lake House on Canandaigua, the latest destination venue created by the Sands family, is replacing the former Inn on the Lake. Developers expect the ...

Nickelodeon Worldwide Day of Play is coming to the The Strong on Saturday, Sept. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be hopscotch, Hula Hoops and a jump rope competition, along with a special performance by the New ...

Coast Professional just keeps growing, and the Geneseo-based firm continues to do so faster than most companies in the area. For the sixth consecutive year, Coast Professional landed on the Inc. 5000, a ranking of the fastest-growing, privately held, for ...

Imagine Monroe, the county’s industrial development agency, has approved incentives for six projects that are expected to create nearly 200 local jobs and retain more than 1,000, including the addition of 100 at Bausch & Lomb Inc. and 50 at ...

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The Genesee County city of Batavia next month will host a workforce development event aimed at enticing youngsters to consider a career in skilled trades, manufacturing and agribusiness. GLOW With Your Hands will enable 1,000 students from 28 school districts ...

The Krupnicki family continues to support Monroe Community College’s Welding & Fabrication Industry Certification program through scholarship funding. Mike Krupnicki awarded $17,000 in established scholarships to the highest achieving students at the recent graduation ceremony, which featured 38 students. The ...

In the space of 75 minutes, educational leaders, current students and proud graduates from the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School waved goodbye to their old home and cut the ribbon on their new campus Tuesday morning. The progressive graduate school ...

Southwest Airlines has added new seasonal non-stop flights from Rochester to Florida for January and February. Southwest will use its 737-700 aircraft for the new service from the Greater Rochester International Airport to Ft. Lauderdale on select Saturdays in January ...

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The supply of homes on the market in July dropped 3.4 percent nationally in a year-over-year comparison, and the Rochester market saw the second-largest decline in the country. There were 1,841 homes for sale in the Rochester metro area in ...

An Orleans County frozen foods packager has been fined more than $200,000 by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for serious violations. Arbre Group Holding, dba Holli-Pac Inc., was fined $200,791 last week for violations ...

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Empire State Development has approved MicroEra Power Inc. as the first START-UP NY firm to be located at the AHEAD Energy facility at Metro Park in Rochester. The company, which will partner with Alfred University through the program, plans to ...

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The corner of N. Winton Avenue and Blossom Road will have a grocery store again starting on Thursday. ALDI plans to open its long-awaited store on Thursday at 175 N. Winton Road. The German-based chain of grocery stores had eyed ...

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A New Jersey-based optical component manufacturer has opened a branch in Rochester. Esco Optics Inc., based in Oak Ridge, N.J., has produced optics since 1955 and has a staff of 48. Esco products are used in UV, visible and IR ...

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The University of Rochester will receive $1.55 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to support research in quantum computing. U.S. senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced the award Thursday. They said the funding will help researchers ...

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