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A local indoor cycling and yoga studio this weekend will team with the National Eating Disorder Association, or NEDA, for the studio’s semi-annual ROCyourRack event, at which women are encouraged to work out in their sports bras. Compass Cycle + Flow, ...

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The expiration of a lease and an overabundance of staff members at other call centers has prompted the closing of a Henrietta-based business, meaning 75 employees will be looking for jobs. CallVista, a call center working exclusively with Internet-based marketing ...

Canada-based Canopy Growth has announced plans to acquire 100 percent of multi-state cannabis company Acreage Holdings, pending the federal legalization of cannabis in the U.S. Acreage, based in New York, is a cannabis company managing service agreements in 20 states, ...

  Melinda Merante is a veteran of the nonprofit sector who has devoted her career to the American Heart Association, the United Way of Greater Rochester Inc., the Arthritis Foundation and Rochester Hearing and Speech. But it’s her latest role ...

  As the final third of Jeffrey Nelson’s internship with Jewish Senior Life gets underway, Nelson said he feels ready to find a paying job, probably in a kitchen. “I really like food preparation,” he said. Nelson is part of ...

For all of the advancements made in the world of neuroscience, the medical community’s knowledge of the brain is still far from complete. The organ is extremely complex. One hundred billion neurons, each firing signals and receiving information, make up ...

Rochester City Council member Willie J. Lightfoot has been named council vice president, replacing former vice president Adam McFadden. A 12-year Air Force veteran and retired city firefighter, Lightfoot was elected as council member at-large in 2017 and formerly served ...

At the monthly meeting of Rochester City Council on Tuesday, March 15, dozens of members of the Rochester Police Locust Club took the microphone to announce their disapproval of a proposed independent police accountability board,  or PAB. A month later ...

The New York Wine and Grape Foundation is moving from Canandaigua to Penn Yan. The foundation, a trade and marketing organization for grapes and wine, has been located in Canandaigua since the New York Wine and Culinary Center — now ...

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A $3 million capital campaign will pave the way for the return of a Children’s Pavilion at Highland Park, officials said Wednesday. Leadership from the Highland Park Conservancy and Monroe County said half of the campaign funds have been raised ...

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Despite a continuing shortage of homes on the market, buyer demand remained strong in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest Marketwatch Report by the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors (GRAR). Available homes for sale in the region ...

The Upstate Niagara Cooperative has purchased the former Alpina Foods Inc. manufacturing facility in the Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park for $22.5 million. The Upstate Niagara Cooperative is a farmer-owned cooperative of 327 dairy farms throughout Western New York. Brands produced ...

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A new Siena College poll found the majority of New Yorkers support a permanent property tax cap, the elimination of cash bail and the legalization of recreational marijuana, among others. The poll was conducted via phone call, surveying a total ...

A Hilton resident and her lawyer are challenging legal precedent regarding the awarding of damages for when a spectator is injured at a professional sporting event in New York. Veronica James attended an Oct. 27 Rochester Americans hockey game when she ...

This year’s edition of Party in the Park will kick off Thursday, June 6 and will run weekly through Thursday, Aug. 8 at Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Party in the Park is a Rochester music festival showcasing three bands ...