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The University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business is getting positive response from prospective and accepted students after Simon recently was named the MBA Program of the Year by Poets & Quants, a media company covering business schools. “There’s really ...

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When it comes to agriculture, the industry is no Silicon Valley. Surveys conducted just a few years ago found that the average American farmer was 58 while the average American computer programmer was 31. The food and agriculture workforce has only gotten older since ...

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Takeform, an experiential graphics and wayfinding firm based in Medina, Orleans County, has acquired Buffalo-based PrintLeader. PrintLeader is a full-service, large-format digital printing and installation company. Takeform and PrintLeader had collaborated on projects for national accounts over the past year, ...

Rochester area residents, businesses and foundations dug deep in their pockets last year, together giving more than $30 million to United Way of Greater Rochester Inc.’s centennial fundraising campaign. Hundreds of community members on Thursday joined United Way President and ...

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Foreclosure filings in the Rochester area dropped significantly in 2018, with total activity reaching a six-year low. Default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions totaled 2,267—or one in every 0.48 housing units—for the Rochester metropolitan statistical area, which includes Monroe, ...

Imagine Monroe, formerly known as the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency, approved incentives for one expansion project in January, expected to create 12 jobs. Butler/Till Media Services Inc. plans to invest more than $500,000 to expand its Jefferson Road ...

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Business activity grew slightly in New York in January, although the Empire State Manufacturing Survey’s general business conditions index fell 8 points. At 3.9, the general business conditions index was at its lowest level in more than a year. New ...

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Lifetime Assistance Inc. in June will hold its 20th annual Airport Games, a family event that brings individuals with and without disabilities together to raise funds for the not-for-profit agency’s services. In two decades, Lifetime Assistance has raised roughly $1 ...

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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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A new partnership Nazareth College has with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine allows students to apply to both schools as they’re leaving high school and be able to attend medical or dental school without further ado after finishing at ...

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A play center for children seven and under will hold its grand opening at the Whitney Town Center in Perinton this weekend. LADYBUGS Play, at 650 Whitney Road, just outside the village of Fairport, has scheduled its grand opening Saturday ...

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Richard “Dick” Ash, who guided Rochester construction mainstay C.P. Ward Inc. for more than 50 years as the firm’s president, died on Friday with his daughters at his side. He was 81. Mr. Ash, who lived in the Livingston County ...

Roughly 1,000 athletes and coaches will descend on Rochester next month as it plays host to the Special Olympics New York State Winter Games. The event will be held Feb. 22 and 23 at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside ...

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New-car sales in Monroe County received an end-of-year boost in December but were off slightly in full-year sales, Rochester Automobile Dealers’ Association Inc. reported. Area car dealers sold 4,187 new vehicles in December, up more than 17 percent from 3,572 ...

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