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Familiar faces won many of the races in New York in Tuesday’s election, especially locally. Democrat Joe Morelle was tapped to fill the 25th Congressional District seat left vacant by the late Louise Slaughter earlier this year. Morelle, 61, has ...

What do cardboard, soldering irons and a giant metallic fire-breathing dragon appropriately named Heavy Meta have in common? Not much really, but they all find themselves right at home at the Rochester Maker Faire. Going into its fifth year, the ...

Princeton University’s Gideon Rosen will talk Thursday about managing moral outrage through philosophy at the first in a series of talks hosted by the College at Brockport’s Center for Philosophic Exchange. The lecture will be at 5 p.m. in McCue ...

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The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival this weekend will host the 2018 U.S. Association of Fringe Festivals annual conference. “This is a real honor for us, both for our festival and for our city,” festival producer Erica Fee said in a ...

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As the send-off to the county’s first Budget Week, the 2019 proposed Monroe County budget has been revealed, with the first county-wide property tax cut in 10 years. The budget is a sprawling 773-page, $1.2 billion document that marks a ...

Cochran, Cochran & Yale LLC recently underwent an ownership change, with company president Shawn Baker purchasing the firm from his father, Gary. Brighton-based Cochran, Cochran & Yale specializes in executive search and management consultation, priding itself on finding the right ...

Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo and Seneca Park Zoo officials kicked off the demolition of the Main Zoo Building at the Zoo yesterday. Tearing down the outdated 1931 structure signifies the conclusion of Phase One of Master Plan improvements at ...

County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has announced a new partnership between Imagine Monroe, The Entrepreneur’s Network (TEN) and Chloe Capital aimed at attracting woman-owned tech businesses to Rochester. Chloe Capital is a venture capital firm aimed at providing seed money to ...

High profile data breaches and email hacks have brought awareness to the need for increased cybersecurity and data protection in recent years, and local industry leaders say the business is rapidly expanding with more and more companies realizing the importance ...

In a recent study on combating cybersecurity attacks, two-thirds of 3,866 information technology  professionals surveyed across the Americas, Europe and Asia said artificial intelligence tools could reduce false alerts and increase team effectiveness. Yet, only 25 percent of the respondents ...

The Rochester office of T.Y. Lin International, the full-service infrastructure consulting firm, was recognized for work on two projects that won Diamond Awards for engineering excellence in New York. The awards came in the Special Projects and Transportation categories. Both ...

  Flower City Solutions is set to bring the NYHempLab, an educational event based around the hemp industry, to St. John Fisher’s Wegmans School of Pharmacy. Slated for Saturday, Nov. 17, the event will bring together prominent researchers, stakeholders and ...

A world renowned composer will join the Eastman School of Music this month as this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. Charles Wuorinen will be in residency at Eastman from Nov. 12 through 16. His visit will culminate in ...

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As part of its Animals of the Savanna expansion, the Seneca Park Zoo has added a third Masai giraffe. Parker is a 2-year-old male from the Santa Barbara Zoo, who recently arrived at the zoo as part of the expansion ...

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The City of Rochester is testing  app-based parking meters from two companies, with a final decision to be made based on public input. A series of meters has been placed around hot spots in Rochester, marked with a sticker, asking users ...