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The Finger Lakes is the best wine region in the country, according to the USAToday 10 Best Readers’ Choice awards. In dozens of categories, experts in the field winnowed selections to 20 finalists and then the top 10, and their ...

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The Cooper Cos. Inc., parent of the local CooperVision Inc., after the bell Thursday reported a third-quarter improvement in revenue but a drop in earnings, missing Street estimates. For the quarter ended July 31, Cooper reported a 19 percent revenue ...

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Monroe County has officially begun the Make Monroe Home initiative, a program focused on addressing zombie properties throughout the county. Zombie properties are homes that have been trapped in a foreclosure purgatory after being abandoned by their owners, typically because ...

Alyssa Belasco loved her job. But she knew something was missing. She turned to volunteering outside of work to fill the void she felt, and it led her to exactly what she was looking for. Belasco, 35, worked at the ...

With roughly four months left in its yearlong funding campaign, United Way of Greater Rochester Inc. will invest nearly $13.4 million from its 2018 Community fund donations into 75 local programs. CEO Jaime Saunders said the agency’s Community Fund is ...

  Victor’s Cognivue Inc. is bringing a new weapon to the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia: the world’s first FDA-cleared computerized screening test for memory disorders. The tool itself resembles an arcade machine, a boxed-in computer ...

More than 50 percent of Rochester’s children live in poverty, and Rochester ranks first in overall poverty, child poverty and extreme poverty among comparably sized cities. Among the top 75 metro areas nationwide, Rochester ranks as the fourth poorest. That ...

In the nearly five years since A Gamer’s Nostalgia opened it has grown and expanded twice. But owner Chris Williams learned that growth isn’t necessarily a guarantee of long-term success. In fact, he learned, outside forces can wreak havoc on ...

Tops Markets plans to close 10 grocery stores—including three in Monroe County—as part of its efforts to restructure its finances under bankruptcy reorganization. The closings will affect up to 600 jobs. When possible, employees of the closing stores will be offered ...

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Rochester’s Strasenburgh Planetarium will have a new look next year, when renovations are completed on the 50-year-old Star Theater. Rochester Museum & Science Center will close the planetarium on Sept. 4 for extensive renovations that include a state-of-the-art full-dome projection ...

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The College at Brockport officially opened its newest dormitory Thursday with a ribbon cutting for the $24 million, 263-bed residence. Eagle Hall also includes a smart classroom, multipurpose rooms and soundproof study rooms. Each floor of the four-story building has ...

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A big transition has taken place at REDCOM Laboratories Inc. The telecommunications company employing 141 people not only celebrated its 40th birthday this year but also inaugurated a new CEO. Dinah Gueldenpfennig Weisberg is REDCOM’s second CEO and third president. ...

In spite of a rapidly blooming and diversifying tech scene in Rochester, the community of programmers, designers, IT professionals and everyone else across the tech spectrum has not had the chance to bring all members together. But that is about ...

Inside a machinery-laden production space at Eastman Business Park, Ian Finn dredges a clear plastic container into the wide mouth of a 3-D selective laser sintering (SLS) machine. He loads up the container with fine white powder, dumping it into ...

Nearly 80 percent of construction firms in New York state are having difficulty filling hourly craft positions, jobs that comprise the bulk of the industry’s workforce. In the long run, that’s not good for economic growth, one of the nation’s ...