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Writers & Books will again host a literary conference on writing, editing, connecting and publishing June 8. The Ladder, a one-day event at the Rochester Riverside Hotel, will feature author Mira Jacob as a panelist at this year’s conference. Jacob’s ...

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A new online guide helps Wyoming County farms and producers reach out to consumers on the go. The “Buy Wyoming County Grown” website makes available a listing of producers offering apples to zucchini, and bedding plants to Christmas trees. Until ...

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More than two centuries after the first shovels hit the ground to build a 363-mile channel connecting the East Coast to areas in the Midwest, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is launching a major initiative to explore the reimagining of the Erie ...

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Housing developments in LeRoy, Sweden, Canandaigua and Seneca Falls will share in $14 million of state funding, helping to create or preserve 256 affordable homes. The funding is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s five-year, $20 billion Housing Plan and made ...

VerifyMe Inc., a Rochester-based technology solutions company, reported a first-quarter rise in revenues and an improvement in net loss. For the quarter ended March 31, VerifyMe reported sales of $46,454, compared to $0 in the first quarter last year. Operating ...

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KeyBank has announced a total investment of $211.4 million in the Rochester area through the bank’s Community Benefits Plan. Rolled out in 2017, the Community Benefits Plan is a five-year project with a $16.5 billion budget, about 5 percent of ...

In a recent interview with CNBC, famed investor Warren Buffett marveled at the current economic environment.  He noted that unemployment is at multi-decade lows and the federal budget deficit is at an all-time high, yet inflation and interest rates are ...

Blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud computing are fast-growing technologies that are changing the financial industry and altering the way individuals interact with their banks and lending institutions. Technology is constantly changing the way people communicate and access information, ...

The main graduation ceremony for the University of Rochester takes place Sunday morning with the first female Nobel laureate from UR giving the commencement address. Exercises for the colleges of arts, sciences and engineering begin at 9 a.m. on the ...

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Mayor Lovely Warren’s proposed $552 million spending plan for fiscal year 2019-20 will cost the typical Rochester homeowner $49.56 more a year but closes to zero the $38.7 million gap faced when the budgeting process began. The city also said ...

Rochester City Ballet has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant that will enable the organization to commission the ballet “Moulin Rouge.” The $10,000 grant—the first National Endowment for the Arts grant in RCB’s history—will be used to present ...

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St. John Fisher College has joined colleges across the country in calling for government officials to lower greenhouse gas emissions by charging carbon emitters. Fisher President Gerard J. Rooney recently signed a letter urging state and federal lawmakers to create ...

Watching her father go through the annual election period for health insurance brought up concerns for Vicki James; the agent her father was working with was only showing him one piece of the health care pie.

It’s not often that we see churches on the real estate market, but when we do it takes a creative mind to envision what that property might become. Ten years ago, it was not difficult for Douglas Rice to picture ...

  Perhaps the biggest choice a person with limited means has to make is how best to use that money. How do I stretch my money to pay rent and utilities? Can I buy a car or do I need ...