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The transformation of Peebles stores to Gordmans is underway in earnest, with job fairs set for Jan. 7 at each store location. The discount department store chain announced in the summer that locations in Albion, Geneva, Geneseo, Hornell, Newark and ...

Erika Green will become the chief program officer at the Ibero-American Action League. Green will have executive and operational oversight of the organization’s divisions and services in the Rochester area. The new position aligns with Ibero’s expanding programs. “Ibero has ...

Houses for sale remain in short supply in Monroe County, but the median price of homes that did sell rose less dramatically than in recent months and also in the year-over-year comparison. The median sales price in November was $150,000, up ...

When it comes to coordinating one’s trust and estate plans with other retirement plans, do not go at it alone, area experts say. “It takes a team,” says Kris Dowejko, senior vice president and financial advisor at Sage Rutty & ...

Developer Robert Morgan and his wife, Robyn, have sold their Pittsford estate—for considerably less than the original listing price. Morgan, besieged by an ongoing federal fraud investigation as well as allegations of impropriety by the Securities and Exchange Commission, signed ...

A total of $125,000 in grants for projects that protect and restore the health of the Great Lakes will be available through the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Great Lakes Research Consortium. The 2020 Great Lakes ...

Ontario ARC, a not-for-profit organization supporting people with disabilities in Ontario County, has received $36,000 in grants from the Trustee Management Board of NYSARC Trust Services. The grant awards will support Ontario ARC’s guardianship and recreation programs. Ontario ARC received ...

Security 101 of Rochester has awarded Camp Good Days & Special Times a video surveillance system, part of the company’s nationwide The Gift of Security promotion. The Security 101 surveillance system has a price tag of $10,000. Camp Good Days ...

Gail M. Norris, former vice president and general counsel at the University of Rochester, is entering a new phase of her career. In November, Norris, 61, retired from her position at the region’s largest employer and moved to the law ...

The Rochester region had a wide array of major news events in 2019. The year saw the completion of major projects such as the Golisano Autism Center and the Schottland Family Branch of the YMCA. ROC the Riverway also moved ...

  Following its expiration at the start of 2019, Gov. Andrew Cuomo reinstated New York State’s estate tax clawback provision. What does this mean for New Yorkers working to plan or manage an estate? The new budget bill retroactively extended ...

Flaherty Salmin CPAs of Gates and EFPR Group of Henrietta were named to the Forbes’ 2020 list of America’s Top Recommended Tax and Accounting Firms. Forbes partnered with market research company Statista on the project. The list is based on ...

Evans Bancorp Inc., parent company of Evans Bank N.A., has announced plans to acquire FSB Bancorp Inc., the holding company of Fairport Savings Bank. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020, subject to closing conditions, ...

Five Star Bank, a subsidiary of Financial Institutions, Inc., has hired W. Jack Plants II as senior vice president and corporate treasurer and named as general counsel Samuel J. Burruano Jr., who will continue to serve as senior vice president ...

  From the time he decided to learn all he could about photography while attending Rochester Institute of Technology, Mike Bradley planned to use his camera to tell stories. He would use his creative eye, and the lens of the ...