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Gigi’s Playhouse Rochester has received a $25,000 Social Impact Grant from L3Harris Technologies Inc. to support math education for school-aged children with disabilities who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The math sessions will be offered throughout the ...

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RDG+Partners of Pittsford has expanded its service menu again with the addition of a payroll division. Lauren Burns has joined the accounting firm to lead the new payroll division. RDGpayroll will offer payroll processing, time and attendance, pay-as-you-go workers’ compensation insurance, ...

The far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 remain uncertain across many industries and the insurance industry is no different, but local insurance experts say the cost of certain policies are rising dramatically in part due to the coronavirus pandemic and other global ...

Insurance claims have been indirectly affected by COVID-19 as delays in other sectors, as well as changes at insurance offices, have led to a slight lag in processing claims. Area insurance experts, however, say the situation has improved since the ...

A historic Ontario County building is getting a transformation, with help from several grants and a coalition of preservationists. Geneva’s Parrott Hall Coalition has tapped Crawford & Steams, Architects and Preservation Planners LLC to work with engineering firm Klepper, Hahn ...

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The Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society has selected NiCoForm Founder and President Berl Stein as its 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year. The award is in recognition of Stein’s development of innovative new chemistry for the highly precise fabrication ...

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Randi Proukou wants the members of GRAWA (Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys) to let their guard down a little. As president of the Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys Proukou wants to know about all the stresses and struggles ...

Zweigle’s Inc. on Friday cut the ribbon on an ongoing expansion project at the company’s Plymouth Avenue facility. This phase of the expansion included the addition of 15,000 square feet to the company’s advanced manufacturing plant. The entire project will ...

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Hydrogen mobility and clean energy company Hyzon Motors Inc. and Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, the venture capital arm of European energy giant Total SE, have announced a strategic investment led by Total and other specialist hydrogen investors. Financial details of ...

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The New York Power Authority and the state Department of State are collaborating on an effort to significantly expand deployment of electric vehicle fast-charging stations. The city of Geneva will serve as one of seven communities statewide that will participate ...

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Eight months after Robert Morgan’s defense team said their client’s right to a speedy trial had been violated, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford agreed and has dismissed federal fraud charges against Rochester’s most prominent real estate developer. Federal prosecutors are, ...

New York’s county leaders last week renewed a call to the White House and congressional leaders to reach an agreement that would provide local governments with direct federal COVID-19 stimulus assistance, following the House of Representative’s passage of an updated ...

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Sibley Square Asset Manager Ken Greene and Cub Room owners Greg and Jodi Johnson talk to the RBJ about The Mercantile on Main at Sibley Square, Rochester's food scene, COVID's impact on the restaurant industry and more.

Roughly a decade ago, Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. determined that the electricity transmission system in the Rochester area needed to be beefed up. But to do that, a delicate ecosystem would need to be disrupted. To ease that disruption, ...

The Rochester Business Journal has announced 25 recipients of the 2020 Icon Honors awards. To be eligible for Icon Honors, honorees (over the age of 60) must have a long-standing commitment to the Rochester business community and significant professional accomplishments ...