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The creation of the Arbor Creek Townhomes community in the Village of Webster, a Pride Mark Homes, Inc., undertaking, is well underway. The first two phases of townhomes in the 55-plus housing development sold out, and construction continues on soon-to-be-occupied ...

The $79 million, two-year transformation of the Greater Rochester International Airport garnered a great deal of attention both during construction and following its completion last fall. This week the renovation earned the Project of the Year Award from the Genesee ...

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This year’s trend in Super Bowl advertisements will be humor and girl power, says the business dean at St. John Fisher College, who has been monitoring such ads for 20 years. Fisher’s Rama Yelkur says humor is always a big ...

Bank of America named business banking market manager Colleen Matteson Rochester Regional Market President. Matteson replaces Jeff Adams, who has served as market president since July 2017. In her new position, Matteson will be responsible for connecting investment resources through Bank of ...

Graduate schools’ reliance on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) in physics as a gateway exam might be helping to shut women and minorities out of doctoral programs, according to a statistical analysis led by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology. ...

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Lisa D’Angelo began her career at the Friendly Home in 2005 and has climbed the rungs of the promotional ladder to her role today as clinical nutrition manager. Over the past 14 years she has worked in the cafeteria, helped ...

Andy LaManna is hooked on his volunteer work with Meals On Wheels. And for good reason. “My last delivery on my Webster route, the person had fallen the night before and that Friday at lunch we called 911 and everything ...

  Rochester’s first pediatric urgent care has opened in Perinton Hills Shopping Center. Pediatric Urgent Care of Rochester is a for-profit company that follows up on the success over the past eight years of two Pediatric Urgent Care of Western ...

Parker Hannifin Corp., whose global operations include manufacturing facilities in Fairport, Clyde and Marion, today reported year-over-year rises in sales and revenues for fiscal 2019 second quarter that ended on Dec. 31. Second quarter sales increased 3 percent to $3.47 ...

Monro Inc. on Thursday reported record third-quarter sales, beating Street estimates for the third time in four quarters. For the third quarter ended Dec. 29, the Rochester company posted revenues of $310.1 million, a nearly 9 percent increase over the ...

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County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo, alongside local town supervisors and mayors, gathered Jan. 31 to denounce a proposed cut to the aid and incentives for municipalities (AIM), which could take a total $3.3 million from municipal budgets. AIM is a state ...

As a leader, Pamela Reed Sanchez is all about mission, vision and values. But this extends even into her personal life. She took up running at 48. Her mission? To build her endurance as a runner. Her vision? To one ...

FIFCO USA, formerly North American Breweries, has latched onto the hemp bandwagon, launching Hemptails, dubbed the first flavored malt beverage made with hemp seeds. Hemptails is an 8 percent alcohol by volume malt beverage available in three flavors; Passionfruit Express, ...

Rochester was one of 90 metropolitan areas in the country to experience at least an 8 percent year-over-year growth in construction jobs in December. Firms in the Rochester area employed 19,800 workers in December 2018, 1,500 more than in December ...

  A solid return on investments enabled Rochester Community Baseball Inc., to show a modest profit in fiscal year 2018, the seventh time in the past 10 years that the ball club has made money. Income from the team’s investment ...