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Ontario County manufacturing mainstay Crosman Corp. has a new name, but the Crosman name still will be featured on airguns. The East Bloomfield company has adopted the name Velocity Outdoor, believing the change is more reflective of the Crosman Corp. ...

A former coach of the Rochester RazorSharks, who won league championships in his first two seasons, is suing the organization, claiming he is owed $32,475 in unpaid wages. Chris Iversen alleges in court papers that the independent minor-league basketball team, ...

Having spent 23 years working for a firm that created trade show exhibits—rising from customer service manager to owner along the way—Mark Taylor decided the ability to offer more would make his company more dynamic. Instead of just creating exhibits, ...

At age 7 Bob Capurso found his calling in life: Scouting. He started as a Cub Scout and his since gone on to earn the Silver Beaver Award, the most prestigious award in volunteer scouting. In between that time Capurso ...

An event designer whose style attracted inquiries about purchasing her rental furnishings is now opening a retail shop on Railroad Street. Kelli Berg, who has owned Simply Beautiful Events since 2001, had set up pop-up retail shops on Railroad Street ...

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The autos were rolling in, so the lumalon people had to pack up and move aside temporarily. Lumalon, a Pittsford company specializing in light-emitting diode, or LED, illumination, is executing an $866,000 contract to install LED lighting at six buildings ...

Tagged with: energy conservation LED lighting lumalon New York Power Authority NY Department of Agriculture and Markets NY State Fair Thomas Murray

Rochester-based USA Payroll Inc. was acquired earlier this month by Asure Software, the workplace management software company based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 1994, USA Payroll provides payroll and tax services, workforce benefit solutions, insurance services, payroll timekeeping and human ...

New York State Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood is suing Rochester-based home improvement contractors Alvis Sprague and Sarah Crawford, as well as their business A-S Contracting, seeking restitution, penalties and a permanent ban from the industry. The lawsuit, announced this ...

Mae Fox is soft spoken, gentle, compassionate, empathetic—the list goes on. So, when her counselor suggested she try anger management classes 20 years ago, she was rightfully stunned. “I said, ‘I think you need to look at the chart you ...

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 ...

It’s never to early to start down the path to entrepreneurial creativity. Kids ages 10 to 13 have a chance to learn the basics about starting a business at the annual Biz Kid$ Camp, an endeavor sponsored by the City ...

Are you interested in perhaps saving money or time for your business, church, school or nonprofit organization? Then the Greater Rochester Quality Council (GRQC), an affiliate of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, may have a program for you. And it’s free. ...

When Rochester’s weather is good, it’s glorious. And such was the case when Native Eatery and Bar held a ribbon cutting Tuesday at 3 City Center, the former Frontier building at 180 S. Clinton Ave. One of the restaurant’s features, which ...

Tagged with: 3 City Center downtown Elaine Spaul Heidi Zimmer-Meyer Jason Carlson Lauren Mueller Native Eatery and Bar Peter Landers Ross Mueller

  Chris Wiedemer got into online sales big-time in the early days of the internet 20 years ago. He’d spend hours in the basement of his store, Cooks’ World, preparing 20 to 30 packages a day for shipment. All that kneeling on ...

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Josh Sidebottom has been named chief operations officers for The Outdoor Group, the Henrietta-based manufacturer of archery and hunting related products. Sidebottom had been vice president of product development for the firm, which is the parent company of nine brands: ...