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A year and a half after opening their expanded test and assembly site at Eastman Business Park, ON Semiconductor has announced plans to downsize in Rochester. ON Semiconductor, ranked 485 on the Fortune 500, is a global supplier of semiconductor ...

Applications are now open for Monroe Community College students seeking work and scholarships from ESL Federal Credit Union. The deadline for the ESL/MCC Scholars program is Oct. 18. Students in MCC’s School of Business & Entrepreneurial Studies are eligible for ...

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Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery has been named one of the top 100 wineries in the world for 2019 by Wine & Spirits magazine. The magazine released its list over the weekend, including wineries from around the globe, with one-third of ...

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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 ...

Talya Meyerowitz was raised by “the most open South African hippies. My parents were really open to the core. I can talk about anything. That has always made me feel different.” Meyerowitz has taken her childhood experiences with openness and ...

History shows us that humans needed and wanted to interact with each other way back in the Stone Age. Paintings and symbols were used to warn others of danger, celebrate the hunt, and create a sense of well being. Today, ...

USA Today readers voted del Lago Resort & Casino the fourth-best casino hotel in the United States, besting notable locales such as Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel and Casino, The Wynn Las Vegas & Encore Resort and Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas ...

Rochester Regional Health and the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center have announced a new collaboration to bring free health services to JCC members. Officially started on Wednesday, Sept. 18, the new initiative kicked off with the opening of a ...

Amid neatly stacked shelves and bins of steel odds and ends, punctuated with brilliant sculptures by Albert Paley — some oxidized to a rusty finish and others wearing a bright white coat — an end-of-an-era party took place Thursday. The ...

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Dairy farmers have an extra week to enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage program, a type of federally backed insurance that provides payments when milk prices fall and feed prices don’t.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the new ...

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Inside a small Petri dish in the hands of Sanatela Medical co-founder, chairman and CEO Michael Crowley is a product which, he believes, will revolutionize the field of cancer treatment. The thin, gauze-like material is nothing much to look at, ...

St. John Fisher College is embarking on the largest fundraising campaign in its history, aiming to raise $75 million that will increase its endowment, renovate buildings, and enhance students’ experiences. The college has already raised about $42 million of that goal ...

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In one of the final scenes of “Free Solo”—a documentary on Alex Honnold, the first person to scale Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan without the use of ropes or tools—Honnold crests the 3,000-foot granite wall and holds a recognizable tie ...

As daylight hits the graveled lot of Parcel 5 on crisp early September Rochester morning, anything remarkable about the barren sliver of downtown directly across from Sibley Square is hard to see. But for two days beginning Sept. 13, the ...

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Anne M. Kress, president of Monroe Community College for the last decade, is one of three finalists for the presidency of Northern Virginia Community College. The college in Richmond, Va., has 75,000 students on six campuses, making it about four ...

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