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Growth is a choice. As president and founder of Career Start Workforce Management Group, Lindsay McCutchen has chosen growth for her company. As of the end of May, Career Start’s revenue is up 52 percent compared to last year at ...

Besides a growing downtown restaurant scene, jazz fans will have a wide selection of street-side food vendors to choose from for their meals and snacks this year. One change is the food booths that have previously lined East Avenue on ...

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If the term “wearable biometric device” doesn’t ring a bell to you, you’re likely not alone. It’s a term seemingly pulled out of a science fiction novel, and comes off as something reserved solely for the world of synthetic humanoids. But ...

The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival feeds the Rochester community with more than music and food each summer. Millions of dollars are poured into the local economy as thousands descend on downtown for the nine-day festival. “On an annual basis, ...

Rochester’s Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is kicking off a yearlong 50th anniversary with a three-day event beginning June 28. The anniversary marks the beginning of the first and largest technical college for the deaf,  which ...

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Rochester area motorists are paying more at the pump than they have since 2014, despite two consecutive weeks of lower prices. The average price of a gallon of gasoline here this week was $2.97, down from $3 last week, but ...

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MRB Group, a Rochester-based engineering, architecture and surveying firm, has acquired Chatfield Engineers. The move expands MRB’s municipal services team and is designed to enhance services to clients of both firms. “In order to serve the increasing need clients, we also ...

The Holly Central School District has a new superintendent from nearby. The Holley Board of Education has selected Brian Bartalo, currently Hilton High School’s principal and head of school for the International Baccalaureate program at that school. “Throughout the rigorous search ...

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The Rochester City Council unanimously passed Mayor Lovely Warren’s $539,646,900 operating budget at the monthly council meeting on Tuesday, June 19. The budget is about 2.4 percent higher than the 2017-18 budget, which places it slightly below the inflation rate ...

Vuzix, the Rochester-based augmented reality glasses producer,  is set to join the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes on June 25. The Russell 3000 Index is a stock market index composed of 3,000 of the largest publicly held companies in the ...

Serial entrepreneur John “Dutch” Summers was recently awarded the 2018 Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award by the Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Summers is CEO of Graywood Companies, a Rochester-based holding company managing commercial ...

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Cornerstone Pointe Apartments, a $14.3 million senior living community on Long Pond Road in Greece, officially opened Tuesday morning. The apartment complex has 66 one- and two-bedroom apartments designed for seniors, with 33 units accommodating frail elderly households as an ...

KeyBank has been named as one of the 2018 Civic 50, a listing by the international volunteer advocacy group Points of Light. KeyBank has a long history of donations, grant awards and community activism. In the past few months in ...

Another defendant in the 5 LINX fraud case is considering a plea agreement offered by federal prosecutors. Jeb Tyler, a former 5 LINX vice president, is scheduled to be in U.S. District Court on Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate David G. ...

As a hiring manager, your top priority is (or should be) identifying the best talent for your team — period. It seems like a simple concept: define the skill set you’re seeking, interview qualified candidates, and hire the finalist that ...