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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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The state Department of Transportation has completed its nearly $6 million rehabilitation of the Lake Ontario State Parkway, following eight months of construction. Some 7.2 miles of the parkway between Route 19 in Hamlin and Route 237 in Kendall, Orleans ...

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The University of Rochester’s new director of alumni relations and constituent engagement comes from a similar position at Harvard Law School. Karen Chance Mercurius will start her new job as associate vice president at UR March 18. “Karen is a ...

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Archival Methods has expanded half a dozen times in its 16 years, but its most recent move puts all of its employees under one roof. The archival storage and presentation products company this week celebrated its recent move from two ...

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Harris Corp. has been awarded a $75 million order from the U.S. Marine Corps for upgrades to its Falcon III manpack radios, manufactured in Rochester. The contract follows U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer’s push for increased funding in the 2019 Defense ...

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