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The president of Rochester Institute of Technology had been promising a historic announcement for weeks. Amid musical and theatrical performances at the ice rink-turned-nightclub Thursday, July 12, David C. Munson was scheduled to make the announcement before 2,000 guests: RIT has launched ...

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The Strong National Museum of Play will receive $20 million in funding through a Finger Lakes Forward Upstate Revitalization Initiative Grant to support its $60 million expansion, which broke ground on Thursday. The funding will help attract new and returning ...

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New car sales in Monroe County were relatively flat in the first half of 2018 when compared with 2017 sales, reports Rochester Automobile Dealers’ Association Inc. In the first half of the year, area car dealers sold 23,664 new cars ...

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Eight Western New York women, including three in the Rochester region, will be honored as Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Western New York. Locally, Lindsay Cray, co-founder and executive director of Earthworks Inc.; Batavia City Council Member ...

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Nazareth College has a new dean of its school of management: Kenneth Rhee, who most recently worked at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, as associate dean of that school’s college of business administration and a professor of management. Rhee began work ...

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Constellation Brands has acquired a Texas beer company, further cementing its position as a leader in the high-end beer market in the United States. The company announced this week its purchase of Four Corners Brewing LLC of Dallas, a craft ...

The Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute has selected 17 projects for its first public-private partnership to focus on driving down the cost of technologies needed to recycle and reuse materials in manufacturing. The 17 projects have a total ...

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Rochester artist Bradd Young, whose creations are branded SALUT, will join five other artists to create murals throughout Rochester for the annual WALL\THERAPY 2018 program. Now in its seventh year, WALL\THERAPY is an art and community intervention project that uses ...

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Confidence among upstate consumers soared in the second quarter, bucking a nationwide trend, Siena College Research Institute reported Wednesday. Overall consumer confidence—which includes current and future confidence—in Upstate New York last quarter rose more than 7 points to 90.7, from ...

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Audience participation band Massaoke will headline the seventh annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival in September, festival organizers announced this week. Massaoke, a live band that started in London in 2011, plays the best-loved “hairbrush” anthems—songs you know by heart and ...

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As a business owner, Maureen Ballatori thrives off of creativity and change. It was that yearning to be more freely creative that pushed her to start her business, 29 Design Studio, in the first place. 29 Design Studio began as ...

Taylor, the regional commercial contractor based in Penfield, has partnered with the Pluta Foundation and Hanlon Architects on the design and construction of a medical office build-out on the second floor of the Pluta Cancer Center. Construction on the 6,000-square-foot ...

St. John Fisher has won a state grant of $145,000 to help furnish and equip a dormitory it is building with plans to open in fall 2019. The grant came from the state’s Higher Education Capital (known as HECap) Matching ...

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Three Rochester-area poverty-reduction programs will receive nearly $1 million in state funding through the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative (ESPRI). “Through the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative, we are empowering communities to connect people with opportunities that help move them ...

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Showing homes will take a backseat to showing support for the community on Thursday when more than 250 Hunt Real Estate Corp. agents and employees team up with United Way chapters in Rochester, the Southern Tier and across New York ...