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It is rare that a single proposed idea can hold so much potential to transform a city. The re-imagining of Rochester’s Erie Canal Aqueduct is one such project. Although it is part of a much more extensive and ambitious plan, ...

Willow Domestic Violence Center has tapped a five-year veteran of the nonprofit as its new leader. Meaghan Lacey de Chateauvieux had for three months shared interim leadership responsibility with Mike Dedee, director of operations, and Marie Viavattine, director of programs ...

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Gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon’s Friday, Aug. 31 visit to Rochester brought a hardy stance on social justice reform, but fell short on addressing economic development in upstate. The event at Webster Avenue’s Thomas P. Ryan Community Center focused specifically on ...

Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli has accepted a new job with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and will resign Sept. 15, according to city officials. Mayor Lovely A. Warren has appointed Deputy Chief Mark Simmons interim chief, effective Sept. 16. ...

Paul Curcillo and Stephanie King, the Philadelphia couple who bought Torrey Ridge Winery in 2015, have now acquired another Finger Lakes winery: Rooster Hill Vineyards. Rooster Hill’s founders were Amy and Dave Hoffman, who decided to retire after 16 years ...

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Continuing its growth through acquisition strategy, Transcat Inc. on Tuesday announced it had purchased a Virginia-based in-house and on-site equipment calibrator for $4.7 million. Founded in 2000, Angel’s Instrumentation Inc. provides calibrations nationally to the manufacturing and maritime industries from ...

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New York Attorney General candidate Tish James and Assemblyman Harry Bronson, D-Rochester, hosted a roundtable discussion last week on student loan debt, for-profit educational institutions and protecting students across the state. Hosted at Bronson’s coffee shop Equal Grounds on South ...

 The U.S. Postal Service is accepting applications through Sept. 7 for “city carrier assistants.” These positions are similar to full-time carriers, but are for a term of slightly less than one year. The appointment can be renewed for another year ...

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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 ...