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The YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County, Willow Domestic Violence Center and the Legal Aid Society of Rochester have received funding from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Rochester/Monroe County Homeless Continuum of Care (RMHCoC). The ...

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North Star Coffee, an enterprise of Ontario ARC, is featuring “celebrity” baristas every morning during its open house week,  March 11-15. The coffeehouse at 1880 Rochester Road (Route 332), will welcome the town supervisors of Victor and Canandaigua, along with ...

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Expansion and/or improvement projects by Gateway GS LLC and Tenney Coin Laundry were approved for incentives by the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) on Thursday. Gateway GS has plans to invest $450,000 to build out the interior of an ...

Fun, funky and affordable. Those are the three words Ron Weinstein uses to describe his vintage store, Tupelo Interiors. Weinstein got his start in the antiques and collectibles business at a young age. Both his father and grandfather were local ...

St. John Fisher has launched a new master’s degree program in strategic communication that will be mostly taught online. Strategic communication combines traditional emphases of communications programs, such as public relations, marketing and advertising, with study in the creation of ...

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Rochester-based Omni-ID, the founder of industrial radio frequency identification tags (RFID), has named Tony Kington president and CEO. Kington was appointed by Omni-ID’s board of directors. The announcement was made this morning. “It is a privilege to lead a long-serving ...

Batavia and Genesee County were ranked No. 3 in the country on Site Selection magazine’s annual list of Top Micropolitans of 2018. The magazine, the official publication of the Industrial Asset Management Council, cited 13 project “wins” during 2018 across ...

Xerox Corp. plans to reorganize its corporate structure into a holding company, documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday show. Following the restructuring, Xerox will become a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of a new holding company. The purpose of ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology is expanding a relationship with a West Coast software company that will provide campus-wide access to Autodesk’s products for designing in three dimensions. RIT’s College of Art and Design has had a relationship with Autodesk since ...

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A grant of approximately $3.4 million from the National Cancer Institute will support clinical trials at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Wilmot Cancer Institute for the next five years. While the Wilmot Institute has received funding from the NCI ...

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Rochester City Ballet Inc. Artistic Director David Palmer will leave the agency at the end of March, following the conclusion of RCB’s production of Dangerous Liaisons. “We hired David to be a game changer. He has done what we asked: ...

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Wegmans is first on the 2019 Axios Harris Poll 100 list for corporate reputation, moving up from the second spot in 2018 and nudging aside Amazon. The study that leads to the ranking looks first at which companies are most ...

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Two area nonprofit agencies will receive federal funding to support Senior Corps Retired and Senior Volunteer Program projects. The funding, provided by the Corporation for National and Community Service, statewide will support more than 4,100 Senior Corps volunteers from throughout ...

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LeRoy’s OrCon Industries Corp. has acquired AC Packaging for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to expand OrCon’s product and service offerings to include on-site crating. It is the company’s third plant, and first in Rochester. “This acquisition rounds ...

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The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Inc. has joined a statewide coalition to advocate for making the 2 percent property tax cap permanent. On Tuesday, several organizations including the Chamber, the Business Council of New York State, the Business Council ...

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