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Puerto Rico is getting a $4.5 million boost in its economic development arm, with a public-private project aimed at accelerating solar business on the island. The package involves $3.8 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to train workers in ...

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Wegmans Food Markets Inc. will invest $175 million to build a regional distribution operation in suburban Richmond, Va., allowing the Rochester-based grocer to better service stores as it continues to expand in the mid-Atlantic region. Virginia officials lobbied to land ...

City and state leaders along with development partners celebrated on Friday the completion of Stadium Estates Phase II, a $13 million scattered-site housing initiative in Rochester’s JOSANA neighborhood. Stadium Estates Phase II created 46 new affordable homes, with residency based on ...

Leonard Brock will leave his post as executive director of the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative in June. Brock has been executive director since RMAPI’s creation in 2015. The organization works on ways to fight poverty in the community. Census data from ...

At 26, Caleb Freitas already has a firm footing in his career, which he began just a month after graduating high school. In his junior year of high school, Freitas began taking vocational training through Eastern Monroe Community Center. “I ...

Vera Altman exercises three times a week. She plays bingo, goes out to lunch and loves playing the game Rummikub with neighbors. She nibbles on snacks while watching movies with others and enjoys a shared vegetable and flower garden in ...

A $1.246 million upgrade to the collection storage areas at the George Eastman Museum has been completed, ensuring improved preservation of artifacts. The Environmental Improvements Implementation Project included the replacement and upgrade of 30-year-old systems that controlled the temperature and ...

When it comes to hot real estate markets, forget coastal cities like Miami and San Diego or major metropolitan areas like New York and San Francisco. Think, instead, Boise, Idaho, Chattanooga, Tenn., and, yes, Rochester. Realtor.com’s 2020 housing forecast, released ...

FIFCO, the global beverage company that owns Genesee Brewery, says the CEO of its Rochester-based U.S. division, will leave his position on Jan. 15. Adrian Lachowski had taken the position at FIFCO USA understanding that it would be a two-year ...

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A septet of female chefs and food-and-beverage producers from the Finger Lakes region will be featured presenters at the esteemed James Beard House in Manhattan in January. The team, headed by Geneva’s Samantha Buyskes, is currently listed on the house’s list of ...

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As he took courses at Monroe Community College and then the College at Brockport, Thomas Carpitella says he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do for a living. He ended up working at putting others to work. Carpitella is CEO ...

  The YMCA of Greater Rochester Inc. touches pretty much every square inch of the city and suburbs. Thousands of people flock to the nonprofit’s 17 locations each day, and that number continues to grow as the agency increasingly caters ...

Joe Robach has been called an institution and a stalwart, a fair-minded legislator who could back-burner partisan politics to do what was right for his district. More than anything, however, he has been a voice for the Rochester region during ...

At least three local farms are receiving more than $100,000 each in grants from the federal government to help bring their operations up to date with renewable energy systems.  The state director for rural development announced this week that New Yorkers ...

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The Autism Council of Rochester will roll out the state’s first Autism Mobile Services and Crisis Unit van in January, thanks to a $10,000 grant. The van will provide mobile support services to children up to age 18 who are ...