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First American Equipment Finance and Monroe Community College were named Marketers of the Year at the annual American Marketing Association Rochester Pinnacle Awards Ceremony. First American Equipment Finance won Market of the Year in the for-profit category while MCC won ...

Rochester Regional Health recently was named winner of the George K. Hansen Exemplar Award, the highest honor given by the Greater Rochester Quality Council. Rochester Regional Health was recognized for its Optimizing EMR Alerts, an improved med administration initiative. The ...

Two of Rochester’s largest commercial printers have merged, consolidating space and staff in Henrietta. Canfield & Tack Printing Inc., an employee-owned printer, and Cohber Press plan to operate as one company from Cohber Press’s John Street location in Henrietta. Although ...

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OptiPro Systems LLC, will celebrate the grand opening of a 15,000-square-foot machine technology center on June 19 and 20. OptiPro Systems, 6368 Dean Parkway in the Wayne County town of Ontario, provides precision CNC machine tools and Mastercam software to ...

Adaptive sports professionals and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical providers will learn about technological advancements and risk reduction in adaptive sports when Disabled Sports USA’s Adapt2Achieve annual leadership conference comes to Rochester in early June. The conference, set for June ...

MVP Health Care will partner with the City of Rochester and National Fitness Campaign on a program to bring a free, outdoor fitness court to Rochester. Rochester is the first community statewide to join the National Fitness Campaign on the ...

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Two groups have come together at the Rochester City Public Market to make sure tons of food waste are used for animal feed or turned into compost instead of being trucked to a landfill. The joint efforts of Flower City ...

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Most people duck on to the golf course to get away from work, but there will be a different brand of R&R when the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship comes to Oak Hill Country Club next week. Instead of rest and ...

Aaron Newman is freshly back in Rochester via Nepal, where he hit 20,000 feet on his first attempt at ascending Mt. Everest. He didn’t quite make the summit, which stands a hair over 29,000 feet, but his attempt at his ...

If you’ve had your New York driver’s license renewed in the past six years, you’re holding in your wallet what is considered one of the most secure licenses in the country. Thirty different security features are peppered around the polycarbonate ...

Two anonymous alumni of the University of Rochester have provided a gift to the Eastman School of Music that will create an endowed professorship honoring the late Paul Burgett. Burgett, who died in 2018 at age 72 after a brief ...

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IEC Electronics Corp. has been awarded a top global defense company contract worth more than $50 million. The multiyear contract is for a program the Newark manufacturer has supported for several years from a single service line. The new contract ...

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Virginia “Ginny” Squire has been named director of operations in the Rochester office of Hanna Commercial Real Estate. Squire will oversee sales agent support, back office operations and staff, agent recruiting and training, with a role in driving growth of ...

Louise M. Slaughter’s congressional papers are being donated to the University of Rochester. The late congresswoman, who died in 2018 while still in Congress, represented the Rochester area for 31 years and 16 terms. The university announced the donation from ...

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Keuka College has elevated Amy Storey, who has been interim president since last July, to the job permanently. The Keuka board of trustees voted to offer the job to Storey Monday, after a nationwide search with more than 100 applicants. ...

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