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Dairy farmers have an extra week to enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage program, a type of federally backed insurance that provides payments when milk prices fall and feed prices don’t.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the new ...

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Redevelopment of Buffalo’s downtown skyway will be done with a big assist from three Rochester-based firms. SWBR, Fisher Associates and MRB Group combined forces to create the winning entry in the state’s Aim for the Sky: The Buffalo Skyway Corridor Competition. Throughout the ...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, New York City’s Bryant Park was a dangerous place to be. Whether people were walking through the park next to the New York Public Library, or along the streets nearby, they risked becoming victim ...

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For decades, it was perhaps the most underutilized thoroughfare in Rochester, an urban-renewal-era roadway meant to move drivers into and out of downtown in rapid fashion. In reality, the Inner Loop was very much a moat, sans water. The sunken, ...

Zweigle’s, Rochester’s homegrown meat manufacturer, plans to build a 29,000 square-foot expansion and create 33 new job after gaining state support of about $1 million in tax breaks and outright grants.  The expansion, due to be completed in late 2022, ...

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McDonald’s restaurant owners and Rochester City Mayor Lovely A. Warren announced on Thursday morning two new recruitment tools that may help the restaurants hire about 230 new employees this fall. McDonald’s is expanding its Archways to Opportunities program that supports ...

Tagged with: aarp Archways to Opportunity Glen Jeter hiring Louis Buono Mayor Lovely A. Warren McDonald's Susan Garrett

Eighteen finalists, including three from the Rochester area, have been selected in the first round of the state’s Grow-NY food and agriculture innovation competition. Competitors must present their business plans for consideration in a competition to win a top prize ...

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Neighbors of the now-vacant Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School are suing the City of Rochester, the city’s manager of zoning, a developer and the school itself, claiming environmental concerns were ignored and policy violated when rezoning of the site cleared ...

Several local colleges and universities will receive tens of thousands of dollars in state grants to support their innovation and collaboration with small- and medium-size manufacturers. A total of $417,165 is being awarded from the Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund, FuzeHub ...

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Monroe County, at the direction of County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo, has filed suit against New York State and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying the new law allowing driver’s licenses to be issued to undocumented immigrants is unconstitutional and forces county employees ...

The legal sports betting era has begun in the Finger Lakes, and while wagers on the NFL and other games won’t redefine del Lago Resort & Casino, they will enhance the overall business model. “It’s going to be material,” Brent ...

Funding is now available to income-eligible homeowners in Monroe County for home repair projects, if the improvements meet specific criteria. Eligible repairs including structural work (such as roof, foundation, windows, exterior paint or siding), major systems (plumbing, heating or electrical) ...

Attitudes toward undocumented farmworkers in New York have improved over the course of a decade, according to a survey and study conducted by the Community and Research Development Institute (CaRDI) at Cornell University. The researchers published the findings in a ...

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Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced today that $500,000 in federal funding will go to Geneva to establish a seed repository for the hemp industry. The money will go specifically to the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, ...

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The inaugural Grow-NY agricultural business competition has attracted nearly 200 applications hoping to win start-up money to launch a venture in the Finger Lakes region. The applicants are competing to be among the 20 finalists who will have a chance ...

Tagged with: agriculture Andrew Cuomo business competition Cornell University finger lakes Grow-NY Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit Tom Schryver