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The international campaign, Gets Kids into Survey, has another backer in the form of Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes. Launched in 2017, the campaign’s goal is to educate children on the importance of land surveying as well as making them aware of ...

Newark’s IEC Electronics Corp. on Wednesday reported a 35 percent increase in third-quarter revenues, beating Street estimates. For the third quarter ended June 28, the Wayne County manufacturer reported sales of $40.3 million, up from $29.8 million for the year-ago ...

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Two local power companies and the state agency that regulates them caught fire from residents attending a rate hike hearing Tuesday afternoon.  Some people who attended the hearing held at Rochester’s City Hall by the New York State Public Service ...

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Bausch Health Cos. Inc., the parent company of Bausch & Lomb Inc., on Tuesday reported an improvement in revenue, bolstered by a 15 percent increase in its Salix segment. For the second quarter ended June 30, the Canadian company reported ...

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The Early Head Start program at Community Action of Orleans and Genesee Inc. has been awarded nearly $800,000 in federal funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funding will be used to support childcare services for low-income families ...

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Attitudes toward undocumented farmworkers in New York have improved over the course of a decade, according to a survey and study conducted by the Community and Research Development Institute (CaRDI) at Cornell University. The researchers published the findings in a ...

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The ongoing shortage of skilled-trade workers in the construction industry continues to impact new home prices nationwide. In a survey of contractors for the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, 87 percent said the labor shortage has ...

Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced today that $500,000 in federal funding will go to Geneva to establish a seed repository for the hemp industry. The money will go specifically to the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, ...

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A well-known Greece landmark that has been nothing but a vacant building and parking lot for six years is again on the market. The former Crescent Beach Restaurant, which hugs the Lake Ontario shoreline on Edgemere Drive, has been listed ...

In April, Perry’s Ice Cream released a line of oat-milk-based frozen desserts that are dairy-free. In June they started sending out frozen yogurt laced with vegetable purees. This week craft ice-cream maker Eat Me Ice Cream was blending locally grown black currants into a ...

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The inaugural Grow-NY agricultural business competition has attracted nearly 200 applications hoping to win start-up money to launch a venture in the Finger Lakes region. The applicants are competing to be among the 20 finalists who will have a chance ...

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Median rent in the Rochester area increased faster than both the national average and statewide average between July 2018 and July 2019, according to a report issued Thursday by Apartment List. The median rent in Rochester — $780 for a ...

Jeremias Maneiro, part of The Maneiro Team within RE/MAX Realty Group, has been listed No. 246 on the eighth annual Top 250 Latino Agents Report compiled by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP). The rankings are based ...

Hearings will be held Tuesday in downtown Rochester on rate increases being proposed by Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. and New York State Electric & Gas Corp. The hearings are scheduled for 1:30 and 6 p.m. in the City Council ...

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110 Grill, a restaurant chain that began in Chelmsford, Mass., in 2014 is opening its 25th location this week in Henrietta. Though 110 Grill will have a ribbon cutting and private event Thursday night, it officially opens to the public ...

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