For months, the sign on the door at 137 W Commercial St. in East Rochester, a former dry cleaning business, has read "Opening soon." Residents and other passersby who have anxiously been awaiting that sign to...
DEVELOPMENT: Wegmans has contract to purchase Fountain Bleu for East Avenue store
Wegmans has finally reached a long-sought-after deal to buy the Fountain Bleu hair salon; the...
RBTL's 2010-2011 season leaks early
Although the official announcement of the season is scheduled for next week, the Rochester...
MAYORAL CONTROL: Duffy spells out more of his vision
Mayor Bob Duffy has released more information on what he hopes to do if the Rochester school...
On the remote chance that you haven't read enough about Upstate New York's Eric Massa, a lengthy article in today's Washington Post tells just about everything you could possibly want to know, and a good bit that you probably don't. Written by...
News Articles
DEVELOPMENT: A last-minute save for Medley project
Medley Centre developer Scott Congel made his deadline. This afternoon, he wired $332,497.39 to the county's Industrial Development Agency to satisfy a deadline imposed by the town of Irondequoit, East Irondequoit School District, the county,...
News Articles
MAYORAL CONTROL: Media schedule a televised forum
WXXI, in partnership with City Newspaper and WDKX, will present a live, two-hour forum on April 1 on mayoral control of the Rochester school district. Panel members will be Mayor Bob Duffy, School Board President Malik Evans, and Joseph...
News Articles
Mayoral control change: mayor likely would name all board members
State Assembly staff are still trying to finish drafting a mayoral-control bill for Rochester. But there's been one major new development: the legislation may let the mayor appoint all nine members of the advisory board that would replace the...
News Articles
TRANSPORTATION: [UPDATE 4:50 p.m.] Transit Center could still wind up on Mortimer Street
Rochester Genesee Region Transportation Authority officials are turning their attention back to Mortimer Street as a location for a new bus station. RGRTA head Mark Aesch told 13 WHAM that the agency won't build a bus station if it can't use...
Family
ACTIVITIES: Alternative birthday-party ideas
Parents with children of a certain age might begin to suspect that there's an unwritten law that declares a kid's inalienable right to celebrate his or her birthday at an indoor inflatable playground. Luckily, that isn't the case - in fact, the...
It's not that Wilkes-Barre dark heavies Breaking Benjamin are letting up on the gas with the...
St. Patrick's Day is filled with corned beef and cabbage, shamrocks, tacky bright green...
"You're in my spotlight," Pandora Boxx says with a coo as she playfully shoos a particularly...
Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
This past weekend I took my nieces and nephew sledding at Harris Whalen Park in Penfield....
Recent Comments
Anthony J. Longo said:
Dan - please do not solicit for your vote, again, on Stanwood Lane, Manlius. We are in the process of sending our petition to you in reference to...
in Maffei backs health bill
Kenneth M. Doran said:
I believe global warming is a serious issue that must be discussed in an intillegent and educated manner. Not in the use of scare tactics such as...
in ENERGY: The nuclear option
KNARF said:
That's amazing. I wonder if he can be arrested for treason. When President Bush told a bold faced lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...
in Iowa Rep. ponders revolution
Gary Anderson said:
Dick Cheney is the ultimate terrorist, facilitating 911 and allowing the deaths of thousands of Americans on that day. I think that there is so...
in Have Dick and Liz Cheney wigged out?
Jane said:
Just so you know Lisa, those big brands you hate so much, they pay for the wine that you think is so "fine and complex". You clearly have no...
in WINE SALES: We lose with wine in grocery stores
marckus said:
I been watching top model faithfully and in my opinion DA worst bunch of girls was cycle short girly (5'7) under. I believe cycle 14 will be...
in "America's Next Top Model" Cycle 14: The worst bunch of girls ever
Tom Janowski said:
These details sound promising. Education with these provisions would no longer seem like "one size fits all", but something that can be tailored...
in MAYORAL CONTROL: Duffy spells out more of his vision