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Updated at 4:40 p.m. 01/07/2010 for a correction about the possible opening date. Wegmans has released the long-awaited design for its big new East Avenue grocery near Winton Road in the city: a half-block-long building with a clock tower and a Market Cafe. If city officials approve the plan, the store will
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See a related column by Mary Anna Towler. When Renaissance Square died in late July, the drama surrounding plans for a performing-arts theater had just begun. Almost immediately, leaders of the Rochester Broadway Theatre League began looking for a new site, and they're now being courted by officials and developers in
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It's looking more likely that if it can raise enough money, the Rochester Broadway Theatre League will build a new theater rather than remaining at the Auditorium Theatre. A city-commissioned study seems to indicate that it would cost more to renovate the Auditorium than to build a new theater. And if
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The primary-election season started off low key, but ended with an ugly splash. In the campaigns' final days, mailboxes were flooded, robocalls interrupted the dinner hour, and crass, anonymous flyers attacked some of the candidates. The result of all that? An abysmally low turnout, and few surprises. (Among those few: Loretta
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With just over a day before a federal funding deadline, city and Ren Square officials don't seem any closer to an agreement on the project. At a press conference at transit-authority headquarters this morning, transit authority chief Mark Aesch presented what he is calling a compromise, a "different design" for
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This afternoon's meeting between City Council members, Mayor Bob Duffy, and Renaissance Square officials ended in a stalemate. Both sides seem convinced that they're right, and neither side seems willing to bend. Council didn't take any action today - and it wasn't expected to. This was billed as a City
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Mayor Bob Duffy says he's learned his lesson. "I would rather people either support me or not support me for what I truly believe, as opposed to trying to manage relationships," Duffy says. He's talking, of course, about Renaissance Square. He sparked an uproar among the project's backers earlier this month when
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It won't have the drama and appeal of the Obama-Clinton-McCain races, but campaign season for a big local election is about to start. At stake: three of the seven seats on the Rochester School Board, five of the nine on City Council, and control of the Monroe County Legislature. Republicans and
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Residents of the 56th State Senate District have been getting calls from pollsters about potential Democratic challengers for Republican Senator Joe Robach in the 2008 election.The poll names Brighton Town Justice Rick Dollinger (a former state senator) and former City Council member and mayoral candidate Wade Norwood. But when reached
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On a party-line vote, County Legislators approved a plan to solve the county's budget problems by letting the state take over its Medicaid costs, giving up a substantial amount of its sales tax in return. Under Brooks' plan, announced just an hour before the legislature met to vote on it,
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As the struggle to block a Rite Aid development on Monroe Avenue neared an end, dooming part of the historic Monroe Theater, some opponents focused their attention on a possible savior for the theater: Garth Fagan Dance.The dance troupe, some of the activists told the media, was interested in using
