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This Saturday will mark 20 years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Several events are scheduled throughout Livingston County to honor those who lost their lives that day. These events … more: Livingston County shares various events scheduled for Saturday in honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11

Explore your passions. Face your fears. And take a detour to the Ask Desk if you’re being chased by a bear. Those were just a few of the helpful and humorous words … more: Keuka College holds academic convocation for incoming freshmen and new students

Nearly 130 golfers attended the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester (BBBSR) Annual Golf 'Fore' Kids' Sake tournament at Irondequoit Country Club. The event raised more than $64,000 that will go … more: 130 golfers attend Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester Annual Golf ‘Fore’ Kids’ Sake tournament

Sergeant Jeffrey Cicora of Baldwinsville passed away in 2019 after losing his battle to cancer, which he developed after working at Ground Zero following 9/11. The day of the attack he was working … more: Local Trooper suffered from a rare cancer and passed away in 2019 after helping at Ground Zero twenty years ago

Wegmans brand eggs will no longer be sold in polystyrene foam containers. The new cartons will be made of recycled newsprint and paper. They're recyclable and biodegradable. The change makes it so … more: Wegmans switches to recycled, biodegradable egg cartons

With school starting children are contracting COVID-19 at rates higher than any other time during the pandemic. 250,000 new infections were reported in children just last week. Children went from representing 22% … more: 250,000 cases of COVID-19 reported in children last week

Children can suffer from "long COVID" but the good news is that they're less likely to be impacted by symptoms that persist or start a month or more after the initial … more: What does long COVID look like in children who have had the virus?

As the IRS faces an historic backlog of tens of millions of 2020 tax returns, a new tool is coming to help taxpayers send in supporting documentation to assist with processing some of … more: IRS sends out audit letters to millions waiting for tax refunds: Here’s how to fix it

The Delta Variant is causing more children to get sick with COVID-19, and parents ask what types of masks are best for their children as they return to school. Are cloth masks less … more: What type of mask protects best against Delta? Experts say surgical masks are better than cloth masks

Businesses still struggling from the pandemic will have a chance to get more funding. $20 million in CARES Act funding will be made accessible to small business owners in Monroe County. … more: $10,000, $15,000, or $20,000 grants are available to small businesses still struggling from the pandemic

Americans collecting unemployment dropped last week to only 310,000. This is the lowest it's been the entire pandemic and shows that the Delta Variant isn't having as hard of an impact as … more: Unemployment claims drop in the United States to the lowest they have been since the pandemic began

Federal workers, large employers with more than 100 employees, and healthcare staff were all included in massive effort imposed by the Biden Administration on Thursday. The plan would include upwards of 100 … more: Employers with over 100 workers will face huge fines if they violate new COVID vaccine mandate

In an attempt to help solve the bus driver shortage, New York Congressman Joe Morelle addressed the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. He asked that the requirement for a Commercial Drivers … more: Officials ask to waive the CDL requirement for bus drivers to help fix the shortage

New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin was officially sworn in on Thursday. Governor Kathy Hochul welcomed Benjamin to her administration and he thanked her for choosing him. When Hochul took over for former … more: Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin is officially part of the Hochul Administration

President Joe Biden has enforced mandates to help bolster the success of the vaccine as the population deals with the spread of the Delta Variant. These new mandates could impact 100 million … more: President Joe Biden enforces strict mandates as almost 80 million Americans still refuse the vaccine

Advocates are calling for a change in the application process for aid provided to workers who were not included in the federal stimulus payments. The fund is called the Excluded Workers Fund … more: Advocates call on Governor Kathy Hochul to make it easier for qualifying applicants to apply for the Excluded Workers Fund

Geneva General Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s GoldPlus Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award for our commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, … more: Geneva General Hospital earns American Heart Association’s GoldPlus Get With The Guidelines Stroke Quality Achievement Award

The New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS) today announced the launch of the Kinship Care Toolkit to support relatives and family friends who are caring full-time for … more: NYS OASAS announces the launch of Kinship Care Toolkit for people who are caring for children who have parents that can’t

The legislative picks for the new cannabis board are former state senator Jen Metzger and an attorney from Buffalo, Adam Perry. The board was created to monitor the commercial cannabis industry … more: Two legislative picks have been announced for the cannabis board