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Next week, a Visual Studies Workshop event will present experimental games as art.
Career and technology education in the Rochester City School District is set to expand, which could boost the prospects of students entering a job market with growing openings due to an aging workforce.
Led by a total of $55,000 in funding from the ESL Charitable Foundation and the William & Sheila Konar Foundation, the Rochester Beacon will receive a substantial increase in institutional support this year.
The University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, backed by $7.3 million in federal funding, are partnering to study the environmental and health threats posed by plastic particles.
The city Board of Education slated an April 25 public input session, four days before making a final decision.
Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17, highlights the importance for Black women of having the space to speak up, ask for guidance, and advocate for peaceful birthing experiences.
In his new book “And the Children Shall Lead Us,” Barry Childs recounts the roots of Africa Bridge and shares the nonprofit’s model for eradicating extreme poverty.
The success at East can be replicated, but it would require the one thing that RCSD has refused to grant to anyone proposing anything out of the ordinary: autonomy.
State lawmakers should enact balanced housing policies that address the need for more affordable housing.
For members of the Newspaper Guild of Rochester, whose contract with Gannett expired in 2019, the fight for adequate pay and protections is a righteous one.
Separating myth from reality in the student loan crisis is a complex task. Knowledgeable observers assert that the system needs major surgery, not a butterfly bandage.
Susan Holliday, past publisher of the Rochester Business Journal, is the 2022 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award. She will receive the award on Sept.16.
High-tech firms in the Rochester area attracted nearly $80 million in venture capital in the first half of 2022.
The third proposed district map for the Monroe County Legislature stirs more contentious debate.
If the sale closes, it would be the largest deal yet to come out of the protracted settlement of Rochester entrepreneur Anthony Costello’s estate.
Zach King will not seek reelection as chair of the Monroe County Democratic Committee. He plans to manage Rep. Joseph Morelle’s campaign.
If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song, a songwriting contest that will culminate in a live show, returns after being sidelined by the pandemic.
In its court fight with former newspaper carriers who allege they were sexually abused by a D&C supervisor decades ago, the media company maintains the cases should be moved to workers’ comp—where the claims could be time-barred.
Reserve Interests LLC, headed by FSI General Contractors president Frank Imburgia Jr., paid $7.2 million to acquire the property, which has languished since the 2016 death of developer Anthony Costello.
All proceeds from a 15-day exhibition at Rochester Contemporary Art Center will be used to purchase humanitarian and medical aid for the embattled country.
Rochester Clinical Research is among five centers in the United States evaluating a nicotine vaping cessation treatment.
The stand-up comedian is happy to be back on tour and set to perform at the Rochester Fringe Festival.
Tav Falco and his Panther Burns tour is coming to Photo City Music Hall on Sept. 13.
The nonprofit has settled nine charges of alleged labor rights violations brought during an unsuccessful push to unionize its Rochester operations.