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The bad news in space this week is the little rover that could has officially pooped out on Mars. The good news is NASA announced it has set aside $242 million for a new project that could explain the mysteries ...

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The Rochester Commissary, a planned incubator for food businesses, Thursday got word of a $982,800 federal grant that will help make the project possible. The grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce is to be used to renovate part of ...

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Dairy producers are being sought for an open seat on the state’s Dairy Promotion Order Advisory Board. The board makes recommendations to the state agriculture commissioner on marketing promotions, nutrition education and research programs. “The dairy industry is a major ...

A group of state legislators has introduced bills again to prevent construction of trash incinerators anywhere in the Finger Lakes Watershed, in an attempt to halt Circular energG’s proposed incinerator at the former Seneca Army Deport in Romulus. The legislators ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, housed in Sustainability Institute Hall, lists nine different laboratories. But one that’s not on the list is the biggest of all – the building itself. With power or heat or both produced by a ...

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Dan Wise, founder and CEO of RealEats in Geneva, likes to say that at 4 p.m. every day, someone in every household in America has to make a decision about dinner. And that decision usually pits healthy against easy. Since RealEats began ...

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Phase Two of the 96-unit Azalea Village has been completed in the Town of Webster and will provide housing to seniors 55 and older. The $21.6 million affordable housing community consists of two identical, two-story buildings. Apartments are available for ...

The creation of the Arbor Creek Townhomes community in the Village of Webster, a Pride Mark Homes, Inc., undertaking, is well underway. The first two phases of townhomes in the 55-plus housing development sold out, and construction continues on soon-to-be-occupied ...

  A solid return on investments enabled Rochester Community Baseball Inc., to show a modest profit in fiscal year 2018, the seventh time in the past 10 years that the ball club has made money. Income from the team’s investment ...

Tops stores will start collecting donations for Foodlink with the Check Out Hunger campaign starting on Sunday. And this year the store will also donate meals to furloughed federal workers. More than 150 Tops stores in three states will participate, ...

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It’s a little like the space race, and a piece of it is going on at Rochester Institute of Technology this week. Starting Wednesday, RIT will host a three-day workshop on quantum technology, attempting to advance the field by harnessing ...

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Symone Sanders, the youngest press secretary for a presidential candidate in history, will deliver the University of Rochester’s Martin Luther King Commemorative Address on Wednesday evening. Sanders, who now works as a political commentator for CNN, was national press secretary ...

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Flags will fly at half-staff at all Monroe County facilities through Thursday to honor the memory of Jeffrey Farrell, a county employee who was killed while on the job last week. Farrell, a member of the Monroe County Pure Waters ...

City officials helped celebrate the grand opening Tuesday of a new restaurant on Clifford Avenue. MamaJuanaROC Restaurant and Lounge, at 2260 Clifford Ave., features a Latin fusion menu, including plantain bowl appetizers, Dominican kabobs, sushi accompanied by Rochester-style ground meat ...

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CNN commentator Tara Setmayer, viral dance sensations Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies, and operatic soprano Kearstin Piper Brown will be featured at Rochester Institution of Technology’s annual Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration Jan. 31. The Expressions of King Legacy program is ...

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