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What does living on the Upper West Side of New York City have to do with being the executive director of New York Wine & Grape Foundation, which is headquartered in Canandaigua? Plenty, it turns out. Sam Filler, who became the new ...

  Sometimes it’s what you don’t say that speaks volumes about who you are. When Michael Manikowski joined the Ontario County Office of Economic Development three decades ago, then-county administrator John Hicks put him through a subtle test. “When he ...

The modern landscape of public health is one riddled with trials. From classic hurdles such as poverty to more contemporary issues such as the opioid epidemic, it’s a field constantly facing new challenges and barriers to break through. For Michael ...

For a good four years, starting in 1999, Steve Metzger spent the majority of his workweeks bringing to fruition the terminal building at the Port of Rochester. As vice president and director of civil engineering for LaBella Associates, Metzger was ...

Cressida Dixon, chair of the trust and estates department at Bond, Schoeneck & King, is now deputy managing member of the Rochester office. “I’m very excited about taking on new opportunities on the management side. This is a great opportunity ...

Jerry Grant juggles a demanding schedule as the owner of a private computer consulting business and part-time digital forensics investigator for the Federal Public Defender’s Office, but he claims he’s never worked a day in his life. Grant, who has ...

It may be hard to fathom, but imagine a manufacturer losing 30,000 years of experience in one fell swoop. That’s what happened following Delphi Automotive Systems’ 2005 bankruptcy filing, which resulted in more than 1,000 early retirements. And that was ...

In the kitchen of her home off Lake Avenue, Christine Wagner scurries between her oven and the half dozen trays of unbaked bread resting on countertops, preparing for their journey to the annual church bake sale. In the center of ...

  You read Pete Giovenco’s request to the 400-plus employees of Bergmann in his quarterly in-house newsletter and you don’t envision the warm smile, the down-to-earth demeanor and the raised-by-Italian-immigrants work ethic he possesses. You also don’t see someone who ...

In 2010 Elizabeth Zicari decided it was time to hang up her Jazzercise shoes, but her energy has not waned. Many people in the community recognize the Brighton native as the first Jazzercise instructor in Rochester, introducing the fitness class ...

When David Munson Jr. tells you that engineers are disproportionately represented in marching bands and glee clubs, it’s just as much an insight into his personal history as it is about the multi-talented students he’s serving as the new president ...

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It may come as no surprise that when engineer Dragana Pavlovic discovered a fondness for yoga, she felt the desire to dissect the discipline and to understand the biologics of the ancient spiritual science. “I have really gotten interested in ...

For most, a good massage is a simply relaxing experience. It’s a means to unwind after a particularly stressful week and loosen up those muscles that have grown tense and worn. For Karin Cole, founder of Monarch Integrative Care, however, ...

For 26 years his office had been a narrow parcel of real estate alongside an ice rink, a space just wide enough to pace or stand but with little room to do much else. Behind him, a sea of often-maniacal ...

If you look around Rochester, it is not hard to find signs of Chuck Cerankosky’s influence. In the last decade he has helped to bring new dining experiences to the area, all filtered through a specific lens and his first ...