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The Genesee County city of Batavia next month will host a workforce development event aimed at enticing youngsters to consider a career in skilled trades, manufacturing and agribusiness. GLOW With Your Hands will enable 1,000 students from 28 school districts ...

The New York State Public Campaign Financing Commission has announced their first public meeting will take place in Manhattan tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug. 21. In the 2019-20 budget, New York state established a new rule creating public financing for political campaigns ...

The Krupnicki family continues to support Monroe Community College’s Welding & Fabrication Industry Certification program through scholarship funding. Mike Krupnicki awarded $17,000 in established scholarships to the highest achieving students at the recent graduation ceremony, which featured 38 students. The ...

In the space of 75 minutes, educational leaders, current students and proud graduates from the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School waved goodbye to their old home and cut the ribbon on their new campus Tuesday morning. The progressive graduate school ...

The Strasenburgh Planetarium at the Rochester Museum & Science Center will hold a video game championship this weekend. The video game demo and championship is part of Super City Saturday, a part of Rochester’s first annual multi-venue pop culture festival ...

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The Rochester Association of Black Journalists was named co-winner of the Chapter of the Year award by the National Association of Black Journalists. Rochester shares the honor with the San Diego chapter. Other finalists were chapters in Atlanta, Los Angeles ...

The share of 401(k) assets invested in index funds has risen from 17 percent in 2006 to 33 percent in 2016, a recent report from financial data firm Brightscope and the Investment Company Institute shows. While that is impressive growth, ...

As it stands today, the sixth floor of Monroe Community College’s downtown campus is a cavernous sprawl of little else but aged off-white carpet stretched across 50,000 square feet of floor space. The site sits as a lingering piece of ...

Southwest Airlines has added new seasonal non-stop flights from Rochester to Florida for January and February. Southwest will use its 737-700 aircraft for the new service from the Greater Rochester International Airport to Ft. Lauderdale on select Saturdays in January ...

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The supply of homes on the market in July dropped 3.4 percent nationally in a year-over-year comparison, and the Rochester market saw the second-largest decline in the country. There were 1,841 homes for sale in the Rochester metro area in ...

An Orleans County frozen foods packager has been fined more than $200,000 by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for serious violations. Arbre Group Holding, dba Holli-Pac Inc., was fined $200,791 last week for violations ...

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Empire State Development has approved MicroEra Power Inc. as the first START-UP NY firm to be located at the AHEAD Energy facility at Metro Park in Rochester. The company, which will partner with Alfred University through the program, plans to ...

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The corner of N. Winton Avenue and Blossom Road will have a grocery store again starting on Thursday. ALDI plans to open its long-awaited store on Thursday at 175 N. Winton Road. The German-based chain of grocery stores had eyed ...

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When it comes to investing and managing your wealth, there aren’t too many sure-thing, 100-percent, carve-it-in-stone predictions, even from the most adept of consultants. There’s one big one, though, and it’s as uncomfortable to talk about as it is inevitable: ...

For investors hoping to reduce their tax bills, Opportunity Zones might be the ticket. “Opportunity Zones present a very exciting…opportunity for investors with capital gains,” says Danielle Ridgely, an associate with the law firm Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP. Though the ...