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Verizon says it’s closing its call center in Henrietta by January 27th. It’s one of five centers being closed around the country…according to a website used by Verizon employees to post comments about employment conditions and layoffs. All the employees of those centers were notified in meetings at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. The company says […]
Gasoline prices bumped up over the last week across the Rochester region and western New York. The AAA says Rochester’s average was up two cents a gallon to $2.29. Buffalo is up three cents to $2.31 and Syracuse up a nickel at $2.27 per gallon. The Auto Club says several things are behind the increase, […]
New York and four other states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, demanding they do something about pollution that blows in from other states upwind. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says those states are mostly west and south of the northeastern states. New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont say air […]