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Monroe Community College has received a $3 million gift from the Wegman Family Charitable Foundation to help low-income students in need of food and other necessities overcome obstacles that make it hard to attend college or complete a degree. Wegmans’ ...

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Sports betting could begin at New York’s four full casinos, including del Lago Resort & Casino in the Seneca County town of Tyre, by late May, but racinos and off-track betting locations will remain shut out of the action. The ...

A proposed waste-to-energy incinerator for Romulus, Seneca County, suffered a major blow Wednesday when the NY Senate unanimously approved legislation banning such incinerators in the Finger Lakes, following a similar Assembly vote last week. The Finger Lakes Community Preservation Act ...

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The Rochester Police Locust Club descended on City Hall Tuesday evening, denouncing the proposed establishment of a civilian-led police accountability board (PAB) in Rochester. The PAB legislation on the table is a sweeping bill made in collaboration with the Police ...

Xerox Corp. is exploring the possibility of a “strategic transaction” involving its customer financing business and related assets, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week shows. Monday’s filing included slides from a March 2019 presentation in which ...

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So you think your property taxes are high? You’re right, they are. In fact, they’re the highest in the entire country, according to data analysis released this week. Homeowners in the Rochester metro area pay the highest effective tax rate ...

U.S. Reps. Joe Morelle and Tom Reed have sent a letter urging U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to pick the Finger Lakes region for a planned relocation of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the Economic Research Service. Morelle ...

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The first batch of 9,000 new public safety radios manufactured by Harris Corp. have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection. The XL-200P radios are the first order from a $25.7 million contract awarded ...

The Daniele Family Cos. recently knocked down the old Mario’s restaurant on Monroe Avenue in anticipation of a Whole Foods grocery store development, but arguments are to be heard in Monroe County Supreme Court this week on a motion to ...

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CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival producers on Tuesday announced a full lineup that includes more than 320 shows at 20 venues. Previously announced headliners for the 18th annual show include George Benson; Steve Gadd Band; Patti LaBelle; Jeff Goldblum & ...

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REDD, a restaurant planned for the downtown space once occupied by 2 Vine, has been granted a JobsPlus Property Tax abatement and a sales tax exemption on construction materials, equipment, furniture and fixtures. The tax breaks were approved by Imagine ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is making a splash at the largest game development conference in the world this week, with more than 100 RIT students, faculty, alumni and staff in attendance. Game Developers Conference 2019, at the Moscone Conference Center ...

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An international wine competition in Texas announced winners on Monday, including gold medals for four Finger Lakes wineries. All four winners were recognized for varieties of Riesling. The TEXSOM International Wine Awards drew a record-breaking 3,300 entries from 32 countries ...

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Mastodon Design LLC recently closed on the purchase of what will be its new design and manufacturing facility on Rochester’s Southeast side, city officials said. Rochester Economic Development Corp. (REDCO) sold to Mammoth Property Holdings LLC the 31,878-square-foot facility at ...

Four firms and six brokers were named Power Broker Award winners by CoStar Group. R. Scott Burdett of Flaum Management Co. Inc. won Power Broker Awards as a Top Office Leasing broker and Top Retail Leasing Broker. Steve Soja of ...