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  The YMCA of Greater Rochester Inc. touches pretty much every square inch of the city and suburbs. Thousands of people flock to the nonprofit’s 17 locations each day, and that number continues to grow as the agency increasingly caters ...

Considering his father, his maternal grandfather and an uncle all chose the banking industry as a vocation, it was pretty much a given that Roger Brandt Jr. would uphold family tradition when he finished college. Working for a bank was ...

Laurie Broccolo isn’t the type to shy away from a challenge. In fact, she chases them. In 2011—21 years into her business, Broccolo Tree & Lawn Care—Broccolo was bored. As CEO and co-owner of a successful landscaping company, it’s hard ...

Catharine Young didn’t change much about her living situation when she became head of the new Center of Excellence in Geneva last March. Young had spent 20 years on the road, commuting between her home in Olean and Albany, where ...

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There may have been a bit of serendipity, or kismet or fate involved when Mary Balme came out of semi-retirement for a stint at Rochester Hearing and Speech Center. She had only planned to be there a few months to ...

When she received an offer to join Partners + Napier, Courtney Cotrupe was between jobs, having given up the life she so loved in the heart of Manhattan to return to Brighton to be closer to the family she loved ...

As president of the Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys, or GRAWA, Carey Ann Denefrio wants to provide resources to help members deal with the stress of their work. A women’s health committee has been meeting to plan spin classes, ...

A year ago this month, David L. Long was standing at a podium showing off Rochester Institute of Technology’s newest toy – MAGIC Spell Studios, a state-of-the-art studio for creating video games, movies and all kinds of media. It would ...

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Seanelle Hawkins might well be described as a dynamo. Equal parts gutsy and tenacious, Hawkins grew up being reminded that she had something that others did not. “My father told me that I had a fire that lived inside of ...

It’s amazing how the sense of smell can engage the mind and trigger the play button to the library of childhood memories. For some, it might be the sweet aroma of a linden tree that sends their mind free-falling back ...

Mark McDermott began his career in law, shifted to the shoe industry, moved into manufacturing and landed in companion care. According to Ann Marie Cook, CEO of Lifespan of Greater Rochester, “Mark has the ability to see the big picture ...

The day Red Jacket Orchards turned on the juice production line at its new plant in 2010, Brian Nicholson had a realization. What began as a fruit farm and roadside produce stand two generations earlier had already expanded to shipping ...

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Sibley Square, by sheer location, has no option but to be the focal point of downtown. Granted, the days of the site serving as a bustling department store, first as Sibley’s then as Kaufmann’s, or as the downtown educational hub ...

  It’s not every day that the crew at Mercy Flight Central gets the opportunity to see how their patients turned out. Typically, once a patient reaches the hospital the story ends. But at a recent fundraiser for the Canandaigua ...

Her father saved baseball in Rochester and, years later, her mother made sure a family vision lived on by chairing the board of directors of Rochester Community Baseball. Naomi Silver, however, never saw herself becoming a baseball executive. The heir ...