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The Corn Hill Arts Festival is letting the musical group Inside Out take visitors back to 1969 when they take center stage for the featured performance at this year’s golden anniversary celebration. Inside Out headlines the festival’s extensive free music ...

The Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office has released its annual heroin and fentanyl overdose data, and the results are far from pretty. The report shows that 287 people—about 24 per month—died as a result of an overdose of Fentanyl, heroin or ...

Aligning with Rochester Regional Health, Wegman Companies has acquired The Village at Unity, a senior living facility on Long Pond Road in Greece. The acquisition took place in partnership with a fund managed by Seattle’s Columbia Pacific Advisors. The Village ...

Rick Schiffhauer’s first foray into the world of sporting goods came in the late 1990s, when he dabbled in selling discontinued Mizuno softball bats out his Rochester Athletic Club office. He’d buy them in bulk for $50 a bat and ...

A beverage made as an experiment in 2013 ended up paving a new career path for Tony Moringello, now co-owner of Bloomfield-based Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery. Working as a chef at a senior living community at the time, Moringello whipped ...

Thirty organizations in Upstate New York, including 14 in the Finger Lakes region, have come together to form a regional hub to coordinate the care of intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals. One of six new Care Coordination Organizations (CCO) founded ...

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A Morgan Management project is back in motion in the Syracuse suburb of Fayetteville, a month after the village board of trustees suspended action on the endeavor because of a federal indictment involving executives from the real estate development company. ...

Seneca Foods Corp. on Thursday reported a fourth quarter and full year loss in earnings as a result, in part, of decreased demand for canned fruit. For the fourth quarter ended March 31, Seneca Foods reported a 6.8 percent increase ...

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Barclay Damon LLP has launched a new “cannabis team” led by Syracuse-based attorney Sara Payne, a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Cannabis Law. Barclay Damon’s multidisciplinary team, which represents individuals and organizations participating in or impacted ...

New York’s Labor Laws 240/241, known as the “Scaffolding Law,” was passed in 1885 and is an anachronism that needs to be corrected. Imagine yourself in 1885. Grover Cleveland, a former mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York state, ...

It’s a seller’s market in the greater Rochester area, according to local realtors. However, any gains from a sale will be offset when it comes to purchasing a new house in the region. As John Baron says, it is a ...

Recreation is big business in the Rochester area, where golf clubs and waterways draw enthusiasts from near and far. Don your cleats, and you can play 18 holes at a host of facilities within an hour of downtown. The Ravenwood ...

OK, you’ve put your 40-plus hours in at the office. Now what? Instead of cozying up to your TV, why not paddle local waters, give your time to an amateur theater troupe or take up another pleasurable, healthy pursuit. You ...

As Rochester-area residents and visitors hop in their Uber or Lyft during the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival or the upcoming July 4 holiday, they may recall that Friday marks one year since ridesharing came to the region. Thousands of ...

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Five Rochester-area companies are among the 20 finalists in the 76West Clean Energy Competition, vying for $2.5 million in prize money. New York State Energy Research and Development Agency announced the finalists today (Friday, June 29). The five were among ...

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