Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday the New York Fresh Connect Farmers' Markets (FreshConnect) program. It launches new farmers markets and expands others around the state by increasing the sale of locally-grown food.
Wilson Commencement students won more than just bragging rights at a recent throw down hosted by UNO Chicago Grill in Victor. Thirty-nine students from Wilson Commencement Park in Rochester went up against UNO’s own pizza chefs in a competition for the best the best deep dish pizza creation — and won.
Students from Wilson, a Rochester-based not-for-profit organization that serves single parent families in crisis, were organized into three teams.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced today that federal authorities have agreed to work with New York’s wineries to correct delays in the process of approving new labels for wine bottles, which had been hindering business.
Visitors to the New York Wine and Culinary Center have plenty of ways to learn more about local food and wine. They can learn the best way to cook a steak, try local dishes at its restaurant and, of course, sample wine from all over the state.
“We have a lot of people coming in to do one thing, and they end up doing another,” said Chris Barden, director of education at the center, which has received between 80,000 and 90,000 visitors a year since opening in 2006.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a new law giving horseback riding and training operations the same tax breaks that horse breeding and boarding farms get.
Sponsors say the agricultural district protections and tax assessments apply to operations that have at least seven acres, stable 10 horses and gross at least $10,000 annually.
It was the sixth worst point decline for the Dow in the last 112 years and the worst one-day drop since December 2008.
The New York Farm Bureau today praised a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that extends the same legal protections and tax assessment benefits to commercial equine operations that commercial horse boarding operations currently have.
The small business approach to web design and company branding has been successful for Pittsford Sutherland and Rochester graduate Greg Cunneyworth, 24, and Josh Lowery, 23, a Roberts Wesleyan College graduate.
Union officials say thousands of striking workers will join picket lines and rallies at more than 100 Verizon work locations across New York and New Jersey.
The contract for 45,000 employees from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., expired at midnight Saturday without agreement on issues including health care costs and pensions.
The dispute doesn’t affect the wireless division.
Dave and Trish Christoforo, and Jennifer Brownell and Roger Morse, all from Canandaigua, take in one of the monthly wine walks sponsored by the Downtown Canandaigua Merchants Association Saturday. Trish said it was her first time doing the walk that promotes local businesses. She liked the variety of wine samples, she said, and visiting the shops.
At the wine walks, patrons grab a wine glass for $5 at any participating merchant, sample wines from Finger Lakes wineries and explore Canandaigua.
Artist Will Perkins of Canandaigua — who's done design work for Wick-edly Sent in Canandaigua — now has teamed with his writer brother Michael on a comic book project, "Beware .. The Frogmen From Neptune."
A conversation with Judy Hinman, owner of Judy's Bargain Books in Canandaigua.
After a nearly four-year delay, Walmart is building a supercenter in an upstate New York suburb.
The groundbreaking ceremony is planned for next Thursday in the Rochester suburb of Greece.
The town granted approval in 2007 for the retail giant to move ahead with a 146,000-square-foot store at Northgate Plaza. Construction was delayed by a series of legal challenges from two activist groups that were knocked down in 2009 and 2010.
Hiring picked up slightly in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly three years.
anny Wegman described his first meeting as co-chair of the Finger Lakes Economic Development Council as “the first day of school.”
And members of the council are taking the characterization to heart, because business, government and community leaders will be taking new approaches to stimulating job growth in the Finger Lakes region, said Farmington Supervisor Ted Fafinski, who is one of two representatives from Ontario County on the council.
Corporate profits are at record-breaking levels, and CEOs are not shallow about using this money to start new endeavors. The only thing companies aren't investing in is people.
Unicell is spending $3.46 million on upgrades.
Hospitals in the Finger Lakes region, as a group, are the third largest employer in the region, generating $4.9 billion in economic activity, according to a report released by the Healthcare Association of New York State.
As company heads discuss the future of what PAETEC’s future at Midtown will hold after this week’s announcement that the company has been purchased by Arkansas-based Windstream Corporation, it is assuring employees that their jobs are safe — for now.
