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Foodlink Inc. has opened a new community café inside the Central Library’s Bausch & Lomb building downtown. The café is a pay-what-you-can eatery at which guests can pay the suggested price on the menu or pay what they are able. ...

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Rochester’s Transcat Inc. on Tuesday reported record sales and operating income for the fourth quarter, beating Wall Street estimates. For the quarter ended March 27, the manufacturer reported revenue of $48.8 million, a nearly 7 percent increase from $45.8 million ...

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HCR Home Care Founder and CEO Louise Woerner this week said she would step away from the CEO role when a successor is found. Woerner will remain on the board as executive chairman. “The past year proved the strength of our ...

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DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna found herself in unfamiliar territory this year, when, in the midst of a global pandemic, she accepted a new job in a new state. The interview process, as well as the search for a new home, were both done virtually before Burt-Nanna had ever set foot in Rochester. “It was ...

Bank of America will be boosting its minimum wage once again, promising to pay all employees at least $25 an hour by 2025. The increase continues the company’s aggressive internal campaign to increase employee compensation. The bank bumped minimum wage ...

The Roberts Wesleyan College campus has a lot to offer, from the serenity of the suburban setting to the architectural splendor of stately Cox Hall, from the beauty of the pond and fountain to the arch that signifies the bridge ...

Savage Chef Kitchen in Webster was one of 30 winners in Citizens Bank’s fourth annual Small Business Community Champion Awards. Each business will receive $10,000. Citizens’ total commitment of $300,000 is the largest so far for the award program. Businesses ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement Monday that the state’s mask mandate was being revised in accordance with federal recommendations, was widely embraced, but still left many questions and confusion. “It’s a trend in the right direction, it just creates so many ...

With Amazon threatening to put the kibosh on plans for a $412 million project in Gates, Monroe County’s economic development agency Tuesday morning granted a waiver that will allow the retail behemoth to employ a percentage of non-local construction workers. ...

The Irondequoit Police Department on Monday confirmed that the Brighton man who was reported missing on Friday has been found deceased. He was a local business leader and philanthropist. Edward Boucher was reported missing by his family on May 14. ...

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Marlowe V.N. Washington has been named senior diversity officer at St. John Fisher College. Washington, an alumnus of the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. School of Education’s Doctor of Executive Leadership program, will start in the role on June 1. As ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1.4 million in Western New York for three brownfield cleanup projects, including one in the Rochester region. Nationwide, more than 150 communities will receive 154 grants totaling $66.5 million through the EPA’s Multipurpose, ...

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Xerox Holdings Corp. continues to reinvent itself. Xerox has partnered with the Australian state of Victoria government to launch Eloque, a joint venture to commercialize new technology that will remotely monitor the structural health of bridges. Eloque uses tiny fiber ...

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Minimum wage for all Monroe County employees will rise to $15 starting on Jan. 1, Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said today. Nearly 600 county employees are paid less than $15 an hour for their work in various departments, including ...

Foodlink has purchased 3.6 million pounds of surplus food from farmers in the state over the past year as part of Nourish New York.

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