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Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced today an official date for the grand opening of Seneca Park Zoo’s Animals of the Savanna expansion project. Animals of the Savanna opens on Sept. 13, and it’s the second major project in phase ...

Just about everything at Canandaigua’s Young Lion Brewing Company is pretty unconventional. On Wednesday, Aug. 15, Young Lion unveiled its new event space, a second-story party venue fit with oversized windows offering one of the best views of the lake you’ll ...

Xerox Corp. on Thursday confirmed plans to cut a number of jobs at its Webster facility, as well as facilities in Canada and throughout the U.S. “Xerox continues restructuring activities as part of its initiative to optimize its operations globally,” ...

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Girl Scouts of Western New York is introducing a myriad of new programs for the fall. There are new badges for Girl Scouts to earn involving a range of topics such as cybersecurity, eco-camping, robotics, college preparation, space science and more. ...

Jeffrey A. Jennings has been named president of the New York State Funeral Directors Association (NYSFDA). Jennings owns Jennings Nulton & Mattle Funeral Home in Penfield and Harloff Funeral Home in East Rochester. “NYSFDA has always done amazing work empowering ...

A professor in Rochester Institute of Technology’s sustainability institute is leaving to become dean of Alfred University’s engineering school. Gabrielle Gaustad, an Alfred alumna who has taught at RIT for the last 10 years, will become dean of Alfred’s Inamori ...

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Southwest Airlines again plans to expand its offerings from the Greater Rochester International Airport. Southwest will offer seasonal, nonstop service on select Saturdays to Fort Myers, Florida. The nonstop flights are scheduled for Feb. 16 and 23, as well as ...

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A citizen’s group that has been fighting the High Acres Landfill in Perinton because of odors has filed suit in U.S. District Court against landfill operator Waste Management of New York. The suit seeks an injunction to: Hold off on ...

Tagged with: Fresh Air for the Eastside Gary McNeil High Acres Landfill Linda Shaw Lori Caso Waste Management of New York

  Perhaps it was his upbringing or his schooling, or it may have been his bewilderment at the age of 18 at having to accompany patients to electroshock therapy, but something early in James Branciforte’s career stirred in him a ...

New car sales across Monroe County in July continued to trail year-ago numbers, Rochester Automobile Dealers’ Association Inc. reported. Some 4,022 new cars and trucks were sold by Monroe County dealers last month, down 6 percent from 4,287 in June ...

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Manufacturing activity remained robust in New York State this month, according to the August Empire State Manufacturing Survey, released yesterday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The headline general business conditions index climbed three points to 25.6 in ...

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Through marshes, rolling hillsides, farmland and forest, a walk down the Genesee Valley Greenway trail from Genesee Valley Park seems like it stretches off into eternity. Running adjacent to the Genesee River, the trail is a 90 mile stretch of ...

Much of Nate Sweeney’s career in elder care has been focused on a culture change movement, in reimagining the way in which seniors are cared for and how that care is provided. So when he was approached by St. John’s ...

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, D-Irondequoit, and Assemblyman Harry Bronson, D-Rochester, announced today the securing of $500,000 in state funding toward the construction of the Golisano Autism Center in Rochester. This critical funding will make a huge impact on making ...

Some of the finest designs and amenities in luxury living will be showcased when Homearama 2018 kicks off a nine-day run on Saturday morning. Six recently completed homes in the WaterSong Trail development just off Five Mile Line Road in ...