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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, has allocated more than $7.6 million to recipients in New York state to increase their health workforce in rural and underserved communities. Nationally, HHS awarded ...

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Governors from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have enacted a joint incoming travel advisory that will require travelers coming from certain areas to quarantine for two weeks. Announced Wednesday and made effective at midnight last night, the new travel ...

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LaBella Associates is growing yet again after completing the acquisition of Harmony Architectural Associates, PC, of Syracuse. Harmony has more than 45 years of experience over a wide range of commercial and residential architectural projects, including design-build. It’s the fifth ...

Nearly 30 small businesses in the Rochester area have been selected for the Small Business Relief and Retooling Grant Program. The Urban League of Rochester N.Y. Inc. administered the program. The program, funded by KeyBank Business Boost & Build powered ...

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Allendale Columbia School plans to launch a year-round educational childcare program this fall. The Little School will be available to children 18 months through 3 years old, officials said this week. The school will open in September. The Little School will base ...

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RG&E customers will pay more for their electric service beginning in October if a proposed rate settlement is approved by the Public Service Commission. The increase will be minimal for the final three months of 2020 and the first four ...

This new position for Greg Constantino — managing director of Northwestern Mutual’s Rochester operations — was a rather logical next step for someone with 20 years of experience at the firm. It is not, however, what his mother necessarily envisioned ...

Optimation Technology Inc. has named an industry veteran as its next COO. Wendy Smith brings more than three decades of plant operations and design and engineering services management experience to the role. She joined the company as mechanical and process ...

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Visit Rochester has introduced a new tool for the tourism and hospitality industry. ROC Ready Promise is a tool for Rochester-area tourism businesses to communicate their compliance with public health recommendations to keep employees, customers and guests safe. The visual ...

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After guiding Landsman Development Corp. for nearly 20 years, James Goff will hand off the leadership reins to Kurt Ziemendorf on Jan. 1. Ziemendorf has already assumed the role of president and will transition to CEO as well over the ...

The Genesee County Economic Development Center is in talks with a Buffalo-based logistics provider to construct a regional multi-temperature warehouse facility in the Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park in the town of Batavia. Sonwil Distribution is proposing a multi-temperature warehouse that ...

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The Golisano Foundation has awarded some $416,000 to 11 organizations in Western New York and Southwest Florida in its third round of COVID-19 Response Grants. The foundation has given more than $1.1 million in COVID-19 grants to date. Third-round grants ...

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The Lake House on Canandaigua, a re-creation by the Sands family of the former Inn on the Lake, will christen the first phase of the new destination hotel when the Sand Bar opens on July 1. The redesigned Sand Bar will ...

Rochester Area Music Project, or RAMP, Founder Garry Manuel has announced his retirement from teaching. Ownership of the organization has been passed to his son, Marshall Manuel. Music has been a constant in Manuel’s life for nearly five decades. In ...

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The continuing effort to address the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis will undoubtedly influence Jill Paperno’s upcoming tenure as president of the Monroe County Bar Association. Paperno, first assistant Monroe ...