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The Sears store in Henrietta, for decades an anchor tenant at The Marketplace Mall, will close in late March. The store will be one of 80 Sears and Kmart locations shuttered by the once-giant retailer. The store’s auto center will ...

“Shapely,” a show of recent paintings and prints by Alan Singer, comes to AXOM Gallery for a six-week engagement. The works of Singer celebrate a blend of art and geometry, with design and color offering guiding principles. His new work ...

The owner of a high-end steak house in downtown Syracuse has just opened a second location at Eastview Mall. Prime Steakhouse took over the location vacated by Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano in April. The official opening was Friday, Dec. 28, but ...

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The unemployment rate in the Rochester area dropped to 3.4 percent in November, the lowest level in at least 11 years. The year-over-year decrease of 1.5 percent meant 7,400 fewer people were unemployed in the counties of Monroe, Ontario, Livingston, ...

The median sales price for homes in Monroe County rose significantly in November compared to the previous year. For 611 closed sales in the month, the median selling price was $147,750, a jump of 11.1 percent year-over-year, according to data ...

If you’re heading out of town and don’t know where to leave your dog or cat, your search is over. Paws and Claws Pet Care Inc. has everything an owner would want for their pet—and more. Owner Emily Bennett, 27, ...

The death of longtime U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter at age 88 in March was the top local business story in 2018, according to a Rochester Business Journal survey of readers and staff. Slaughter died March 16, a week after sustaining ...

Q the Medical Spa at Rochester’s Lindsay House Surgery Center is now offering EMSELLA as part of their high-tech medical programs. EMSELLA is a novel way of treating women’s incontinence by strengthening pelvic floor muscles via magnetic pulses. Essentially, a ...

Mayor Lovely Warren has officially introduced legislation to establish an independent police accountability board (PAB) in the city of Rochester. The proposal, as it stands, sets out to establish a nine-person board, independent from City Hall and the Rochester Police ...

Within the chambers of Rochester City Court Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse hangs the saying, “No snowflake falls in the wrong place.” Newly appointed City Court Judge Melissa Barrett, who quoted those words during her swearing-in ceremonies on Thursday afternoon at ...

New York City is now a defendant in the federal lawsuit the Fresh Air for the Eastside Inc. organization has filed in an attempt to abate noxious odors coming from the High Acres Landfill at the Perinton and Macedon town ...

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Dynalec Corp. is expanding manufacturing operations in the Village of Sodus to meet what the firm says is worldwide demand for its products. Dynalec, which makes shipboard systems for communication, navigation and switching, will receive $250,000 for the $1.045 million ...

The Rochester RazorSharks basketball team must pay former coach Chris Iversen $76,181 in back pay and damages, New York State Supreme Court Justice Ann Marie Taddeo ruled last week. The court granted a request for summary judgment in the lawsuit ...

Some vacationing families, such as the Griswolds of “National Lampoon’s Vacation” fame, hope to never come across “Park Closed” signs at their favorite amusement center. Other families dread “No vacancy” signs during the late-night hotel search. And the Tom and ...

  When the Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce sent a hospitality assets survey to its members this fall, executive director Ethan Fogg was thinking of places that might fill in — at least a little bit — while the Inn on the Lake Waterfront Resort ...