All Grow-NY finalists are paired with a mentor and will make their pitch in a Shark Tank-style presentation at the Food & Ag Summit in Syracuse on Nov. 15 and 16.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo appointed Bob Duffy, head of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and a former lieutenant governor under Cuomo, to coordinate public health and reopening of the economy in the Finger Lakes Region.  Cuomo said during his ...

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Airbnb’s Finger Lakes host community earned a combined $3.6 million and welcomed some 17,100 guests during the biggest weekends last summer. Airbnb, the world’s leading community-driven hospitality company, said during the five biggest weekends of 2019, hosts in the Finger Lakes ...

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A septet of female chefs and food-and-beverage producers from the Finger Lakes region will be featured presenters at the esteemed James Beard House in Manhattan in January. The team, headed by Geneva’s Samantha Buyskes, is currently listed on the house’s list of ...

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It’s been a big week in Finger Lakes wine country. Not only was the area named the top wine region in North America for the second year in a row, but two executives of the New York Wine & Grape ...

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The inaugural Grow-NY agricultural business competition has attracted nearly 200 applications hoping to win start-up money to launch a venture in the Finger Lakes region. The applicants are competing to be among the 20 finalists who will have a chance ...

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A proposed waste-to-energy incinerator for Romulus, Seneca County, suffered a major blow Wednesday when the NY Senate unanimously approved legislation banning such incinerators in the Finger Lakes, following a similar Assembly vote last week. The Finger Lakes Community Preservation Act ...

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U.S. Reps. Joe Morelle and Tom Reed have sent a letter urging U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to pick the Finger Lakes region for a planned relocation of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the Economic Research Service. Morelle ...

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New federal legislation will bring the Finger Lakes Region one step closer to being designated a National Heritage Corridor. The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance (FLTA) on Wednesday learned that the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management and Recreation Act was ...

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The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance in May will celebrate its 100th anniversary at a gala honoring the nonprofit organization’s past, present and future. The May 4 event will be presented by CK Cellars and will be held at the Ramada ...

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As the craft beverage business goes, so goes Waterloo Container Co. With the boom in wineries, breweries and distilleries in New York and around the Northeast, the company that supplies bottles and packaging to the beverage industry is booming too. ...

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Paul Curcillo and Stephanie King, the Philadelphia couple who bought Torrey Ridge Winery in 2015, have now acquired another Finger Lakes winery: Rooster Hill Vineyards. Rooster Hill’s founders were Amy and Dave Hoffman, who decided to retire after 16 years ...

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The Finger Lakes is the best wine region in the country, according to the USAToday 10 Best Readers’ Choice awards. In dozens of categories, experts in the field winnowed selections to 20 finalists and then the top 10, and their ...

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Wines from the Finger Lakes region are dominating a New York takeover of a wine podcast produced in London. But it’s a friendly takeover. Lawrence Francis, creator of the “Interpreting Wine” podcast, visited the Finger Lakes and other New York ...

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No cork. No corkscrew. And, if you prefer, no glass. While canned wines have been available for several years from the West Coast and Europe, they’re just starting to spring from the vines in the Finger Lakes region. Bellangelo, overlooking ...

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