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A dispute over alleged construction cost overruns at a new Burger King in Greece is broiling between the building landlord and the restaurateur, and the first Whopper hasn’t even been cooked. Maiden, LLC has demanded payment on $566,530 in costs ...

Rolling out of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics is a new slice of technology that will allow blood testing labs to run two tests at once. The VITROS XT MicroSlide is a blood sample tool that utilizes Ortho-Clinical’s Digital Chemistry, an optical system ...

When you’ve been in business 75 years, as is the case for LeChase Construction Services, LLC, the milestones on the company timeline are many. From the founding in 1944 by Raymond LeChase to the first contract, a $64 job for ...

If you get sued over how accessible your website is for people with visual impairments, fix the problems rather than settle the lawsuit, says Robert Duffy, president of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce. His statement was prompted by a wave ...

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The Strong Museum is one of three Finger Lakes entities that have won new contracts for low-cost power from the New York Power Authority in its latest round of announcements. The ReCharge NY program provides power from Niagara Falls and ...

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Paychex Inc. has reported a 14 percent revenue increase in the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, to a total of $1.1 billion. The report applies to the period ending on Feb. 28, and compares to a $0.9 billion revenue ...

Evolve Additive Solutions plans to expand its Metro Park location, adding 60 jobs. The manufacturer will receive tax credits of up to $1 million in exchange for job creation commitments. “The Finger Lakes region is home to some of the ...

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A Syracuse charter school organization will be in town Thursday to drum up support for expansion to Rochester. Science Academies of New York, or SANY, will host an information session March 28 at the Rochester Museum & Science Center for ...

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Orolia has announced the acquisition of Skydel Solutions, a Montreal-based global positioning system/global navigation satellite system (GNSS) company. Orolia USA is headquartered on Jefferson Road in Henrietta and serves as one of the leading positioning, navigation and timing companies on ...

The mortgage holder for a Morgan Communities-owned property in Watertown has initiated foreclosure proceedings, citing fraudulent activity and failure to make timely payments. Court papers filed in Jefferson County show that the trust company overseeing the mortgage on the Preserve ...

When she was a freshman in high school nearly 60 years ago, Kathrine Switzer made the dinner-table proclamation that she wanted to be a cheerleader. Her father, however, told her that wasn't the best choice. Cheerleaders watch what others do, he explained...

The faculty and administration of Monroe Community College could have a new labor contract on Monday. The MCC board of trustees may ratify the contract when it meets on Monday and takes up the tentative agreement between the faculty association ...

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With the foreclosure sale of the Monarch 716 apartment complex in Buffalo less than two weeks away, another student housing community developed by DHD Ventures’ partners Thomas Masaschi and Jason Teller was repossessed in February and is headed to market ...

You could argue that telemedicine has been around as long as the telephone. Just as dialing a rotary phone has changed to telling Alexa to make the call, telemedicine has morphed from the doctor simply instructing you to “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” to the use of photos, videos, smartphones..

Three-D printers make artificial limbs, “organs” so lifelike they appear to bleed and replacements for parts of jaw bones. And, the technology continues to advance. In a nutshell, a 3-D printer creates solid objects from digital representations of those objects. ...