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A Genesee County school bus sales and fleet management services company has changed ownership. Mike Leonard has sold the family business, Leonard Bus Sales Inc., to his five sons Jon, Patrick, Ben, Dan and Chris. Jon Leonard, who purchased all ...

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The State of New York is making $20 million available for airport modernization and safety enhancement projects, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. The Airport Capital Grant Program is funded solely through the state and is part of the state’s larger, ...

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The Rochester Music Hall of Fame will induct five musicians and musical acts during its annual induction ceremony April 26. Inductees include celebrated traditional folk musicians the Dady Brothers; multi-Grammy-winning sound and mixing engineer Mick Guzauski; iconic jazz singer Nancy ...

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Three local companies have landed once again on Training magazine’s 2020 list for Training Top 125 Organizations. The companies are: Paychex, the company that provides human resources, payroll and other services to business, ranked No. 14. It was No. 12 ...

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Bio-performance company GreenLight Biosciences Inc. plans to construct a pilot plant at a building at Eastman Business Park (EBP). The project will create up to 30 jobs that will support the production of GreenLight’s ribonucleic acid-based solutions for the agriculture and ...

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A new digital delivery service arrived in Rochester this week that places the resources of a convenient store in your pocket – or at least in an app on your smart phone. GoPuff maintains a local storage facility in each ...

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When Mike Schwabl installed three electric vehicle charging stations at Dixon Schwabl Inc. during an office renovation a few years ago, he was the only person there driving an electric car. Since then, times have changed. Today there are as ...

Four local malls and plazas were named this month in lawsuits seeking greater access for people with disabilities by a New York City-area man who has been filing such suits for more than a decade. Christopher E. Brown, whose address ...

Foodlink Inc. will receive nearly $1 million to support its Career Fellowship, a one-of-a-kind culinary training program that creates pathways to prosperity for individuals with barriers to sustainable employment. New York State Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was in town Monday ...

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A Batavia manufacturer will be honored next week as Genesee County’s Economic Development Partner of the Year. HP Hood LLC, which has a nearly 450,000-square-foot facility in Batavia’s Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park, is one of the country’s largest branded food ...

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Construction is underway on Happiness House Apartments in Canandaigua, a $9.7 million affordable and supportive housing development that will create 30 homes. The project includes 22 apartments for individuals and families, another eight apartments for seniors. Four of the senior ...

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has received a $110,000 grant from M&T Bank to support its calendar of programming. The three-year commitment—$10,000 of which will support the M&T Bank Community Concert Tuesday—will provide the RPO with sustained funding to maintain and ...

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The State of New York has been awarded a $40.2 million federal grant to coordinate and strengthen its early childhood system. The Preschool Development Birth Through Five grant will help support and continue the progress made to enhance the early ...

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Transcat Inc. has expanded its service and distribution business with the acquisition of TTE Laboratories Inc. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The Boston-based supplier was founded in 1989 and provides a broad range of pipette services, from ...

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The Friends of the Rochester Public Market are offering a 50 percent discount on reusable blue bags sold at the Rochester Public Market in March to help shoppers and vendors adjust to New York’s plastic bag ban. The New York ...