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A world renowned composer will join the Eastman School of Music this month as this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. Charles Wuorinen will be in residency at Eastman from Nov. 12 through 16. His visit will culminate in ...

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As part of its Animals of the Savanna expansion, the Seneca Park Zoo has added a third Masai giraffe. Parker is a 2-year-old male from the Santa Barbara Zoo, who recently arrived at the zoo as part of the expansion ...

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SPX FLOW Inc.—which has its Lightnin subsidiary in Rochester—this week reported an increase in third quarter revenue and earnings, beating Street estimates. For the year ended Sept. 30, SPX reported sales of $530.3 million, up 8 percent from $491.1 million ...

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Remedy Intelligent Staffing and the firm’s Talent Acquisition Team have joined forces in a new facility at 360 Monroe Ave. in Rochester. Remedy Intelligent Staffing is a workforce solutions company while the talent acquisition team specializes in direct placement opportunities ...

Engineering has traditionally been a male dominated field, and while more and more women are entering the profession—and the STEM fields as a whole—the playing field is not yet level. Caroline Wheadon, an environmental engineer, project manager and hydropower business ...

Buffalo’s Dunn Tire LLC, which has eight retail locations in the Rochester area, has begun offering a customer loyalty program. The tire retailer and undercar maintenance provider in October launched the Dunn Tire Club customer loyalty rewards program to offer ...

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Parker Hannifin Corp. on Thursday reported increases in first quarter sales and income, beating analyst estimates for EPS. For the first quarter ended Sept. 30, Parker Hannifin—which has some 100 employees in the Rochester area—reported a 3 percent sales increase ...

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  Average residential rent prices climbed 0.4 percent in October in the Rochester metro area, pushing the year-over-year increase to 1.8 percent. Of the largest 100 markets in the country, only 20 had a larger monthly percentage increase than Rochester, ...

Ultralife Corp. shares topped $8.10 Thursday morning, following the Newark manufacturer’s third-quarter earnings release, which showed a dramatic improvement in its bottom line. Shares (Nasdaq: ULBI) had leveled off at $7.45 in heavier-than-usual trading this afternoon. For the quarter ended ...

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He was considered the best basketball player of all time. And after six seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and 14 with the Los Angeles Lakers during its 1980s dynasty era, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar went on to act, advocate, write, teach, ...

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Rochester’s economy remained strong in September, with growth in private sector jobs and another dip in the unemployment rate, the state Department of Labor reported recently. Rochester’s six-county metro region gained 6,900 nonfarm jobs, or 1.3 percent, from September 2017 ...

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The U.S. Marine Corps Coordinating Council of Greater Rochester Inc. will continue its annual tradition this weekend with its 2018 USMC Rochester Ball. It is the second such event since the organization sidelined the ball for four years. Saturday’s event ...

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  Could Susan B. Anthony have envisioned a scholar working in her name and studying how women are treated in Rwanda following genocide? Such a person exists in the new director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality ...

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She had seen the bright yellow FOR SALE signs of Steven G. Walther Realtor & Associates all of her life. Who in Irondequoit hadn’t? Those unmistakable signs had been a staple of the neighborhood landscape in town for decades, starting in ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in town Wednesday to officially declare the $79.4 million renovations to the Greater Rochester International Airport complete. Amid much fanfare under the new canopy that covers the upper and lower airport roadways, Cuomo drew attention to ...

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