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Life has few experiences more daunting than watching a loved one slip into the throes of dementia or become immobile after an accident. Caregivers must be there to oversee the minutiae of that person’s daily life. It’s a thankless and ...

Local breweries have benefited from a booming industry as the popularity of craft beers and locally sourced products has skyrocketed over the past decade, but industry insiders say there are still challenges for growing companies. Breweries face difficult questions over ...

Are you interested in perhaps saving money or time for your business, church, school or nonprofit organization? Then the Greater Rochester Quality Council (GRQC), an affiliate of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, may have a program for you. And it’s free. ...

Selling out their Buffalo event in January wasn’t enough for the Tommyrotter Distillery and StepOutBuffalo.com. The distillery and event promoter from the Queen City are bringing their act on the road to Rochester, with the Rochester Whiskey Riot Festival Sept. ...

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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 ...