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The mortgage holder for the $18 million Chateau at Heritage Square senior living community in the Town of Sweden has filed suit to foreclose on the loan. S&T Bank of Indiana, Pa., filed papers in state Supreme Court in Monroe ...

Monroe Community College faculty and staff on Monday and Tuesday are taking a vote on whether to issue a statement of no confidence in President Anne M. Kress. Both the MCC Faculty Senate and the faculty union, the MCC Faculty ...

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Monroe Health Plan is expanding rapidly in the upstate marketplace with an expectation of adding 50 new jobs by the end of 2018. The parent company of YourCare and MP CareSolutions, Monroe Health Plan is a nonprofit organization that specializes ...

Girl Scouts of Western New York CEO Judith Cranston will retire from her position in January. Alison Wilcox, chief operating officer, was unanimously appointed by the board of directors to replace Cranston. Cranston has been with GSWNY for nine years, ...

The closing of the Thomson Reuters legal services office in Rochester will leave all 304 employees without jobs by the time the shutdown is complete on Sept. 30. The Toronto-based, multifaceted media and information firm announced last week that Rochester ...

The City of Rochester and Monroe County are now providing more direct information at their annual tax foreclosure auctions about homes scheduled for demolition. While city and county officials say a notice about impending demolition has always been available before ...

When Khuram Hussain was 7 years old he came to school to find a cupcake and an American flag on his desk. It wasn’t his birthday, and he hadn’t won some academic award. But it was a celebration: His parents ...

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Butler/Till has re-branded its integrated marketing agency to Verdant Brand Communications, a move meant to better reflect its evolution to meet a more diversified set of client challenges. Formerly known as Brand Cool, the new Verdant has expanded beyond the ...

Stantec, the Rochester-based design firm, was recognized for its work to revitalize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square. The project received a Diamond Award in the annual Engineering Excellence Awards from the American Council of Engineering ...

The new Dunkin’ store (they dropped the Donuts part, remember?) in Geneseo will be holding a grand opening event Monday, revealing a new style of store that soon will be coming to a Dunkin’ near you. The franchise owned by ...

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  With so many choices for meal and delivery services, it can be hard to stand out in a crowded field. But a new Geneva company is trying to do just that with Real Eats. The 13-month-old company is currently shipping ...

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Karen Webber says that if you ask a lot of accountants how they got into accounting, “they say they just kind of fell into it.” For Webber, that is far from the truth. She was working at Hegedorns Market, a ...

Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, has promoted four women to senior management positions on the firm’s administrative team. Elizabeth E. Hofmeister, an attorney who was hired about 14 years ago as director of legal recruiting and professional development, is now ...

When Loren Ranaletta joined Episcopal SeniorLife Communities in 1984, he intended to stay five years. Three decades later, he’s still there. “I was No. 2 at a very large facility as the chief operating officer and I just wanted to ...

The high school graduation rate in the Rochester City School District is projected to improve this year. Early grade literacy is trending up, and so is middle grade math. But there is much more to be done, and community leaders ...

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