Monroe Community College has been cited by the Aspen Institute as a national example of effective community college workforce development programs. MCC was one of six schools noted in the Aspen Institute’s report, “The Workforce Playbook,” which offers guidance on ...
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Several Rochester food trucks, including one of last year’s champions, will participate in the annual Taste NY Food Truck Competition at the New York State Fair Sept. 1 and 2. The annual competition features 40 trucks, with twelve new ones ...
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Melissa Sturge-Apple has been named vice provost and university dean of graduate education at the University of Rochester. Apple, a 1992 graduate of the university, currently serves as dean of graduate education and postdoctoral affairs in arts, sciences & engineering ...
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Rochester Monday morning to drum up support for his new Lake Ontario Resiliency & Economic Development Initiative, or REDI. “We have a major challenge ahead of us,” Cuomo said to a standing-room-only crowd that included ...
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The utility company that modernized energy production at the former Kodak Park and turned it away from coal has won $5 million from a carbon-reduction contest run by New York State. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Friday that Recycled ...
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State Supreme Court Justice J. Scott Odorisi signed an order today appointing a receiver to oversee the acceptance and proper application of rents and income from five east-side apartment buildings connected to Robert Morgan that are now in the early ...
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IEC Electronics Corp. broke ground Thursday on a 150,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility in the Wayne County town of Newark. Since the $22 million project was announced last year, IEC has added 175 staffers. The company employs nearly 900. The ...
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The City of Rochester has filed a lawsuit against the opioid industry, seeking reparations for the damage prescription opioids contributed to the rise of the opioid and heroin epidemic. The sprawling, 302-page lawsuit names defendants across the entire industry, from ...
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Batteries Plus Bulbs, the Wisconsin-based company that has had just one store in the Rochester area for nearly nine years, is planning a big franchise push in New York. Rod Tremelling, franchise director for the company, said Batteries Plus Bulbs ...
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New interactive inundation mapping tools have been developed to help provide property owners along Lake Ontario and its embayments with enhanced flood preparedness. Newark-based New York Sea Grant, with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration created the online mapping ...
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The Cause Collaborative Inc. this week filed suit against the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley Inc. for breach of contract. The Cause Collaborative is seeking between $30,000 and $40,000 and is represented by Luke Kalamas of Phillips Lytle LLP. ...
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David Flaum is bullish on the economy and is putting his money not where his mouth is, but where the buildings are. Flaum Management Co. Inc. has been on a buying spree. The firm’s most recent local acquisition is the ...
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Bergmann has acquired Syracuse-based William Taylor Architects, allowing the firm to expand its architectural capabilities across a variety of industries. The William Taylor four-person team will merge into Bergmann’s Syracuse office and work as part of the firm’s Northeast Buildings ...
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Where Rochester’s downtown once featured four department stores and two grocery stores, now there are none. A quarter century after the last department store closed, in the places where all of Rochester once shopped, there’s a car museum, a large ...
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Students in the optics technology program at Monroe Community College often have job offers before they complete their degree or certificate. Now some of the 120 optics companies in Rochester are also reaching into local high schools. The students either ...
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