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Founded in 1920 by president and CEO Paul Griswold’s great-grandfather Hovey Griswold, Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Cos. has grown into the largest independently owned telephone company in New York State, serving 12,000 residential and commercial customers. But the telephone market ...

Walk through gift stores or drive down West Ridge Road and you may very well see evidence of Michelle Roberts' past life as a graphic design artist.

In her senior year at St. John Fisher College, Nicole VanGorder had already taken the Law School Admission Test, on her way to achieving her career goal of becoming an attorney, when a new opportunity came along, almost by accident. ...

  A few years ago, Tanvi Asher went from designing medical product packaging for a local manufacturer to designing and selling clothing in a tiny, out-of-the-way studio and shop. Today, the creator of Shop Peppermint has a premier spot and all the ...

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  Angela Panzarella’s resume reads like a Who’s Who of Rochester employers. Like most youngsters, she started out in fast food, where she learned that a smile could make or break the day. She worked as a litigation attorney for ...

As a leader, Pamela Reed Sanchez is all about mission, vision and values. But this extends even into her personal life. She took up running at 48. Her mission? To build her endurance as a runner. Her vision? To one ...

Long before he ever ventured to the United States, long before he ever took his first engineering class at Syracuse University, and long before he ever started inspecting bridges in the real world, Cletus Ezenwa was quite sure of what ...

In October, Soon Park M.D. stepped up to serve as Rochester General Hospital’s heart failure surgical director, at about the same time Kevin Casey M.D. was promoted to the position of hospital president. Park and Casey, coincidentally, were both in ...

When a small company in New York has a bright idea for a new food product, it typically turns to Olga Padilla-Zakour. When a large company, like Wegmans, is thinking of adding a new product line or a new vendor, it ...

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  It’s easy to see why Todd Barnum’s staff speaks highly of him. Affable and outgoing, Barnum comes across as a glass-half-full kind of leader. But Barnum might best be described as collaborative; he surrounds himself with people whose talents ...

  It’s a big time for Rochester General Hospital, as the Rochester Regional Health flagship inches closer to the opening of the $253 million Sands-Constellation Center for Critical Care. Along with that are a pledge to hit 100 percent renewable ...

He was fresh out of college and ready to make his mark, heading to Manhattan armed with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and an ambitious desire to create. Ken Glazer had the perfect launching pad for his career, too. His ...

As the new executive director of the Worker Justice Center of New York, attorney Lauren S. Deutsch is returning to her legal roots. Deutsch, 39, who had been executive director of Healthy Baby Network for four years, replaced Lewis Papenfuse, ...

Growing up the child of Chinese immigrants in Rochester and Brighton, Nancy Gong was familiar with Asian art and its emphasis on monochromatic works. Those familiar with the bus stop outside Gleason Works or the panels of glass in Rochester ...

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  It’s not often that Jrlon Inc. staffers have the satisfaction of walking into a store, pointing to an item and saying, “I made that.” So when they can, it is a bit of a celebration. “We’re making components that ...