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Its appeal brief argues that Bankruptcy Judge Paul Warren should not have lifted a stay on abuse survivors’ individually filed claims against the Rochester diocese’s parishes.
City of Rochester official Anthony Hall has filed a court complaint alleging that he was wrongly arrested and harassed by an RPD officer in June.
The complex story of a Puerto Rican family in the 1950s that loves to dance will be accompanied by a new “Mondays at Geva” series.
After virtual events last year, the annual Lane Dworkin Jewish Book Festival is in-person again.
Buyer sentiment has turned negative amid rising mortgage rates and economic uncertainty, but homes in Rochester continue to sell faster than in any other large metro nationwide.
Lidrotec will receive a $1 million investment from New York. It is one of 10 startups that vied for a total of $2 million in prizes.
New York’s deal with Micron Technology is touted as an investment that will generate nearly 50,000 total jobs and a total of $25.6 billion in revenue to state and local government. But these forecasts rely heavily on speculative assumptions.
A digital news startup that faced long odds, the Beacon topped 1 million total pageviews this summer.
Business intelligence firm Cause + Effect Strategy’s data work represents a growing shift in electoral politics.
The request asks the bankruptcy court to allow the option for parishes to contribute to a fund to settle claims of alleged sex abuse suffered in Boy Scout troops sponsored by Rochester diocese churches.
To operate amid the pandemic, the Brighton Farmers Market adopted measures to ensure social distancing and minimize patrons’ contact with products and other shoppers.
To those gaining COVID-related experience every day, the answer is: We need to be smart, careful and cautious.
Morgan Properties, which owns a number of apartment communities locally, is expected to donate a portion of residents’ May and June rents to Rochester Regional Health and Foodlink.
For the region’s farmers, the coronavirus pandemic has caused customers to disappear, disrupted supply networks and brought the risk of infected workers.
Many families are weighing whether a nursing home or senior living community is the best option for elderly parents now.
David Brown, who has partnered with Dennis DeLeo to launch a new venture fund in Rochester, says “it’s one of the best times in history to be starting a company.”
History suggests if we want to begin to repair the social fabric, a good place to start is our own neighborhoods.
In a web conference presented by the Rochester Beacon and Upstate Venture Connect, Monroe County’s Adam Bello and his peers from Onondaga and Oneida counties expressed cautious optimism on the region’s economic prospects as the pandemic threat recedes.
In the week ended May 30, filings in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region fell to the lowest level since the pandemic shutdown began.
Racism is complex and polarizing—and its dehumanizing nature affects all of us.
Last weekend’s rally to protest the death of George Floyd, and the violence and looting that followed it, brought to the forefront issues of racism and unequal justice. How will our community respond?
There are many important steps that Rochester and other communities can take to reduce and ultimately end police abuses.
The aim is to determine definitively whether hydroxychloroquine works to cure or inhibit COVID-19.
Kit Miller, director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, says her group’s new campaign presents nonviolence as a solution for young people—a matter of increased urgency after last weekend’s rioting in Rochester.