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The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering help to businesses struggling to make payroll during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our small businesses are the economic engines of their communities, and the SBA is ready to provide them with the support they ...

The application window to enter the $3 million Grow-NY business competition is now open.  Empire State Development and the Cornell Center for Economic Development both announced on Tuesday that the competition is opening up for its second round of applications, ...

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Effective at 7 p.m. today, Rochester Regional Health and University of Rochester Medical Center are requiring universal masking, meaning all providers, staff and visitors must be wearing a surgical mask at all times in public and clinical areas for the ...

As the region’s health care providers grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of resources and vital supplies, two more Rochester-area manufacturers have stepped up to help. J.N. White Associates Inc. on Sunday said it had launched a splatter ...

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Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren today announced a suite of programs to support residents and businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. » Free professional financing counseling and coaching will be available to residents from the Office of Community Wealth Building’s Financial Empowerment ...

Dozens of New York localities will share an additional $2.4 billion in funding from the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD), a part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The funds are to be used for ...

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Apex Clean Energy, the company planning to build a 33-turbine wind farm in the Orleans County town of Barre, has opened a community grant program.  “This is a difficult time for all New Yorkers and we want to step up ...

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Transportation provider Leonard’s Express can have a tractor-trailer in Arizona carrying produce and be able to monitor the temperature inside the trailer and adjust it from a laptop at its Farmington-based headquarters, says Michael L. Riccio, chief marketing officer for ...

Jennifer Muniga has been executive director of Cameron Community Ministries, an Urban Outreach Community Center in the Lyell-Otis Neighborhood, since 2011. In that role, she sees first-hand the impact of poverty on youth, as 98 percent of neighborhood residents live ...

Fairport’s Iron Smoke Distillery is the latest craft distillery that is switching from making liquor to making alcohol-based hand sanitizer in this era of pandemic.  But Iron Smoke is partnering with Rochester Midland Corporation, a 140-year-old company specializing in sanitation, ...

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Construction firms large and small, forced to leave job sites on Friday when their work no longer fit the state’s definition of an essential industry, are hoping Gov. Andrew Cuomo instead will allow municipalities to determine whether building is a ...

Having backgrounds in the health care industry, Silas and Micky Patel said they followed intently the spread of the coronavirus long before it reached pandemic proportions in New York. They saw the devastation in China and then in Italy, and how ...

Two local small-business owners have stepped in to help other small-business owners determine what loans or grants are right for their company during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tamara MacDuff, owner and founder of NOW Digital Marketing, and Almarie Falbo, owner of ...

Christine Whitman believes it is better to be overcautious than underprepared as her firm navigates the business landscape amid the COVID-19 outbreak. “We’ve taken this very seriously right from the beginning and have been planning for it,” says Whitman, chairman ...

A local accounting firm, RDG+Partners, is providing free assessments for businesses to help them figure out which stimulus benefits they are eligible for, and to which they should apply.  The firm offered a similar service after the 911 terrorist attacks, ...