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In its modest home-style digs at 120 East Ave., Bryx Inc. looks no different from any other local startup. A crew of 11 engineers and staffers populate half of a small office area fit with the requisite array of Apple ...

For the folks at CJS Architects, the neighborhood surrounding their workplace is more than just the spot from where they design cool buildings and interiors. It’s their home. When they look out their office window on South Union Street, they ...

Career pivots can happen at any age. For Pamela Fennell Baker, the new president and CEO of Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women, it was at 62.

Linden Overhiser spent two years driving for Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. His experience with the industry’s two major players was the catalyst for starting his own rideshare company, Roc’n Ride. Overhiser claims both Uber and Lyft take 50 ...

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Four airports in the Rochester metro area are slated to receive a total of $2 million in federal infrastructure grants as part of the $3.18 billion Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program. It is the third allotment of the FAA ...

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Volunteers of America Upstate New York has selected former Holy Sepulchre Cemetery CEO Lynn Sullivan as its new president and CEO. Sullivan will begin her tenure with the nonprofit Aug. 12. “Lynn is an amazingly talented person. We feel very ...

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The Monroe County legislature has voted in favor of commencing litigation against the state of New York against the Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act, otherwise known as the Green Light Bill. The Green Light Bill, which was officially signed ...

Roberts Wesleyan College has launched The Community Institutes program, a strategic initiative offering custom educational solutions and resources to Rochester-area businesses and organizations. The Community Institutes will provide certificate and training programs — separate from the degree-based education already offered by ...

In ways large and small, local residential facilities for seniors are working to reduce their negative effects upon the environment. Even some of the seniors they serve are stepping up in defense of the environment. “Our residents are very much ...

In the world of craft brewing there is no shortage of collaborative efforts among brewers, and the Greater Rochester market is no exception. Teaming up with would-be-rivals to produce a special beer that both companies invest in and distribute is ...

America, we need to talk aging. I know many of you want to stop reading right now. But let’s face the facts. Never have so many of us lived so long. When I give talks about the demographics of aging, ...

NextCorps’ Growth Services, which serves as the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NY MEP) network center in the Finger Lakes, generated $77.2 million in financial impacts and helped create or retain 602 jobs in 2018. The numbers were released last week ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five year, $5.5 million grant to Rochester Institute of Technology to support the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program. In total, the funding will support 24 new scholars. The CyberCorps Program is a scholarship ...

Launch NY has expanded the deadline of its online investor network beta test from Monday, July 15 to Friday, July 26. The beta test is seeking 100 qualified investors to sign up at no charge, who will then receive access ...

British retailer EG Group has completed the purchase of all 54 Fastrac convenience stores and gas stations in New York, including seven in the Rochester area. EG America LLC will now oversee operations of the stores, part of the company’s ...