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Brooke Smith struggled with bulimia and disordered eating for nearly two decades, beginning as a teenager, before finding her refuge. “When I was recovering in my early 30s and discovering intuitive eating, I realized that I had wasted almost two ...

Cornell University has put out a call for innovators for New York’s agricultural community. The university this week released a first-of-its-kind report designed to guide inventors and investors toward urgent technology needs within the state’s farming and food processing industries, ...

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University of Rochester Medicine Home Care President and CEO Jane Shukitis on Wednesday said she plans to retire in December. She led the organization for seven years. “It has been an honor to lead UR Medicine Home Care over the ...

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Had it not been for the recession in 1974, or for a creepy orange-colored slime seeping into the Genesee River around the same time, who knows where Larry Smith would be today. Maybe he’d have his own furniture company or ...

Considering the scope of the Rocket Mortgage advertising blitz, you surely heard about the mortgage lender’s Super Bowl Squares contest back in February. Rocket Mortgage was giving away $50,000 to one contestant every time the score changed during the Feb. ...

Home Leasing LLC and its contracting subsidiary, Home Leasing Construction, have been recertified as B Corporations, a designation the firms have strived to attain and maintain. B-Corporations strive to reach certain standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency ...

Corporate powerhouses Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and HUNT Real Estate ERA maintained prominent positions on the RISMedia Power Broker Report & Survey while Keller Williams Realty Greater Rochester ranked highest among firms headquartered in Monroe County. Pittsburgh-based Howard Hanna, ...

Rochester’s Ortho Clinical Diagnostics has been awarded a $53.7 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund manufacturing capacity expansion dedicated to U.S. customers of the company’s COVID-19 antigen and two antibody tests and for the company’s VITROS ...

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The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance this week said that all New Yorkers enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will receive the maximum allowable level of food benefits for April. Households already at or near the ...

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He may already be the most prolific inventor in Xerox Corp. history, but Santokh Badesha is far from done when it comes to innovation. “I love coming to work every day,” says Badesha, a Xerox Fellow and manager of open ...

Manufacturing in New York state grew at a steady pace in March, a monthly report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows. The headline general business conditions index climbed five points to 17.4, its highest level since last ...

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Upstate United, a non-partisan, pro-taxpayer organization, is again pushing back against New York state’s tax burden. In a fact sheet released last week ahead of the state’s budget agreement, Upstate United shows how New York compares with other states in ...

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The newest WellNow Urgent Care outlet will open in Brockport on Wednesday, the sixth location for the provider of walk-in medical clinics. The Brockport WellNow Urgent Care, located at 6555 4th Section Road near the intersection of Routes 31 and ...

NextCorps Inc. — which recently celebrated three years at Sibley Square downtown — has continued to help develop cutting edge companies despite the COVID-19 pandemic and is now looking to add to its list of services for entrepreneurs. The organization’s ...

With nearly a year of pandemic restrictions, closures and economic turmoil under their belts, nearly half of Finger Lakes Region CEOs said they expect the New York state economy to worsen at least somewhat in the year ahead, an annual ...