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Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and The Strong have partnered to celebrate Deaf Awareness Month with a Deaf Day of Play at the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Sunday.  Students from NTID’s Department of American ...

Rochester Rotary Sunshine Camp is celebrating its 100th year of serving children and youth with disabilities.  Originally located on 23 acres of land near Durand Eastman Park when it opened on June 12, 1922, the camp relocated to its current ...

The city of Rochester and Ibero-American Development Corp. are seeking vendors for the International Plaza. Located at 828 N. Clinton Ave., the International Plaza is a Latin-themed marketplace and event space that will operate from noon to 4 p.m. on ...

IDEX Health & Science’s Life Science Optics Team—comprised of units in Henrietta, Lima, Livingston County and Carlsbad, CA—donated nearly $105,000 in 2021 to local organizations, surpassing the company’s initial goal of $100,000.   In 2021, the Life Science Optics team ...

C.A. Reed Associates, Inc., a Canandaigua-based manufacturer and installer of industrial flooring, received a first-place award in the annual Contractor Awards by CoatingsPro Magazine. C.A. Reed Associates was honored in the Industrial Concrete category for renovation of the Horst Engineering ...

St. John Fisher College is offering a new Bachelor of Science degree in athletic performance this fall.   The program builds skills in exercise science, psychology and biomechanics.   “Our program is designed to teach students how to take a ...

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly commonplace, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic brought about remote work and insecure remote access to businesses became more prevalent.

A community relief effort has launched to provide emergency medical vehicles and supplies, firefighting equipment and vital humanitarian aid to the residents of Ukraine as the attack by Russian forces continues. American Medical Response (AMR) has donated two ambulances and ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration will hold its 2022 Women’s Business Summit from March 28 to 30, in honor of Women’s History Month.  The summit will consist of virtual panels, “Ask an Expert” workshops and fireside chats to help women-owned small ...

Adam Shine has been promoted to president of Sunnking, the Brockport-based electronics recycling firm. Shine has been vice president at Sunnking since 2015 and has spent more than 15 years in the recycling industry. CEO Duane Beckett had also served ...

Serial entrepreneur Richard Kaplan predicted the downfall of brick-and-mortar retail stores more than four decades ago — long before it actually happened. At the time, Kaplan owned the now-defunct Max Pies furniture stores. The company had expanded from Rochester to ...

The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package passed by Congress includes $9 million in funding for projects in the Finger Lakes. “This funding mean jobs, new businesses, feeding the hungry, bridging the digital divide and better serving the public,” U.S. Sen. ...

Business leaders in the Finger Lakes region believe the state’s economy will be a little better in 2022, but lingering challenges from COVID-19 will remain.

Dan Torrens has been named CEO of eHealth Technologies, succeeding Jeff Markin, who will remain in an advisory role at the firm.   Torrens brings 25 years of leadership experience to the position, most recently as the chief operating officer ...

The past two years have prompted regional commercial insurance agencies to get creative with technology and communication.