From last January to June, 80 people in Monroe County died from an opioid overdose. The Office of the Medical Examiner won’t release 2019 full-year data for a few more months. But if the second six months echo the first ...
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The Rochester area is replete with innovative partnerships to help patients receive care that they wouldn’t otherwise receive — whether it’s a new mobile medical clinic serving underserved LGBTQ communities, a data exchange ensuring Medicaid recipients being released from jail ...
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Blink Fitness opened its first Rochester-area location Monday, with a new gym at 2833 W. Ridge Road in Greece. The company has 140 locations in 10 states, with most of its New York gyms in the greater New York City ...
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Xerox Holdings Corp. on Monday said it had raised the $24 billion necessary for its proposed hostile takeover of HP Inc. The document company has received financial commitments from Citi, Mizuho and Bank of America. In November, Xerox officials reached ...
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The George Eastman Museum on Monday broke ground on the Thomas Tischer Visitor Center, a project several years in the making. The new visitor center will be funded through several sources, including a more than $1.5 million donation from retired ...
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Wegmans will stop giving out single-use plastic grocery bags in its New York stores on Jan. 27, slightly more than a month before a state-wide ban goes into effect. At the same time, the chain of grocery stores will start ...
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Garth Hankinson will assume his new role as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Constellation Brands on Jan. 13. Hankinson succeeds David Klein, who will become CEO at Canopy Growth, the Canadian-based cannabis firm in which Constellation owns ...
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Brian M. Kolb, R-Victor, is stepping down as state Assembly minority leader, following his arrest New Year’s Eve on a charge of driving while impaired. “I will not allow my own personal challenges to distract from the goals, message, and ...
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TYS LLP, an accounting firm with offices in Fairport and Walnut Creek, Calif., has merged with the San Francisco agency of Lefkowitz & Co. LLP. Founded in 2010 by California-based Glen A. Thomas and Christopher York and Fairport-based Tim Shortsleeve, ...
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The Summit Federal Credit Union has announced a change in leadership for the first time in 25 years. Longtime President CEO Mike Vadala is retiring after 35 years with the financial institution. Stepping up on Feb. 1 will be Laurie ...
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A longtime Rochester office furniture and supplies company has rebranded, updating its name and image to reflect a unified company. FM Office Express Inc., a full-service office furniture and supplies company, will now be known as Intivity. Each of the ...
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Digital Hyve, a rapidly growing marketing agency dedicated wholly to digital opportunities, has been awarded up to $1 million in tax credits through the Empire State Development Excelsior Jobs Program. Founded in Syracuse in 2014 by Jeff Knauss and Jake Tanner, ...
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About two-thirds of all businesses in the country are family owned, but it’s rare for a company to remain in a single family’s control for several generations. Lake Beverage in Henrietta is one of the 3 percent to make ...
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He hasn’t given up on his football dream, or his love for the game, but Quentin Gause knows very well that his time on the gridiron won’t last forever. Which is why the lifelong Irondequoit resident is already well into ...
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Rochester Contemporary Art Center and the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House plan to collaborate this year on a site-specific public art project that will celebrate the 200th birthday of Susan B. Anthony and the 100th anniversary of the ...
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