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City editorial staff on April 25th, 2012
THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED:
First Place ($500 gift certificate toBernunzio Uptown Music) is Washboard Dave Paprocki.
Second Place ($250 gift certificate to Bernunzio Uptown Music) is Boggs Visionary Orchestra.
Third Place ($100 gift certificate to Bernunzio Uptown Music) is Jinn Farfast.
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The City Newspaper Best Busker Contest
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City editorial staff on March 14th, 2012
Bolgen Vargas
Occupation: Interim superintendent, Rochester City School District
Neighborhood: Cobbs Hill
Most beautiful place in Rochester: Durand Eastman Park looking at the Lake Ontario waterfront.
Best kept secret of Rochester: The Highland Park Lamberton Conservatory. You will find tropical flowers there on the middle of the coldest winter day in Rochester. The
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City editorial staff on November 8th, 2011
The Fight for Washington Square (Nov. 1)
The Occupiers versus the Selling of America (Opinion, Nov. 1)
Occupy action: Bank-transfer theater? (Blog, Nov. 4)
Tom Richards on Occupy Rochester (Nov. 3)
Occupy Rochester Won't Hurt Washington Square Park (Blog, Nov. 3)
Occupy Rochester Event Tonight Could be Huge (Blog, Nov. 2)
Occupy Rochester Participants Arrested (Oct.
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City editorial staff on November 2nd, 2011
Best fast-food trend: gourmet food trucks
Food trucks have been trending nationally for a while now - Food Network has aired two seasons of "The Great Food Truck Race," a reality show devoted to them. Now it seems like Rochester is starting to get hip to the benefits of mobile
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City editorial staff on October 11th, 2011
It's campaign season, and with the elections so close, your local candidates are appearing at forums and other events to try and win your vote.
Upcoming events are listed below. This list will be updated as necessary. If you'd like your forum listed, please send information to cfien@rochester-citynews.com.
CANDIDATE APPEARANCES
Meet the
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City editorial staff on September 21st, 2011
This is a corrected version of this story.
If the results of the city's 2011 Democratic primaries had a message, it's that they lacked a message. There were a few upsets, but no true anti-incumbent sweeps. Voters made no broad statements; each race was influenced by its own
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City editorial staff on September 7th, 2011
by Tom Hayden
After witnessing the first jetliner crash into the Twin Towers on that September 11 morning, a friend of mine's wife and 7-year-old daughter fled to their nearby Manhattan loft and ran to the roof to look around. From there, they saw the second plane explode
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City editorial staff on September 1st, 2011
UPDATE:
Mia Hodgins is not a candidate in the Democratic primary election. She has the endorsement of the Working Families Party and will run in the general election.
For city school board:
Campos, Evans, Powell
UPDATED 9/01/11: As a reader has pointed out, our discussion of school board incumbents Malik
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City editorial staff on August 31st, 2011
City endorses in the City Council, County Legislature, and Rochester school board races.
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City editorial staff on April 27th, 2011
Mayor Tom Richards will join Andrew Turner, chief of customer satisfaction, and William Ansbrow, the city's budget director, for the three more "Voice of the Customer" sessions on the proposed 2011-12 budget.
The dates and locations for the sessions are as follows.
* Wednesday, April 27, 6 p.m. at the South Avenue
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City editorial staff on May 14th, 2012
We'll finally learn this Friday, May 18, how Rochester Mayor Tom Richards plan to fill the $25 million hole in next year's budget. Richards has talked about things like pension fund borrowing and public safety cuts. He also held public meetings in each of the city's four quadrants
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City editorial staff on May 7th, 2012
There will be a protest at noon today outside the Wells Fargo branch at 1200 Pittsford-Victor Road in Pittsford. Take Back the Land Rochester, Band of Rebels, Occupy Rochester, and their supporters will protest the bank's foreclosure on Leonard Spears, a resident of 26 Ries Street in Rochester. The
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City editorial staff on April 30th, 2012
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards will give his first State of the City address at 7 o'clock tonight at the National Museum of Play. The address is usually a chance for a mayor to highlight the accomplishments of the past year while also noting the challenges facing the city. Richards
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City editorial staff on April 23rd, 2012
Rochester City Council meets Tuesday night. Three particular items of interest are a tax-abatement program to encourage owner-occupied housing downtown, a change to the city's lease with the group that owns the Rochester Rhinos, and a $20 million loan for the Mt. Hope College Town project. All three proposals
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City editorial staff on April 16th, 2012
The education activist group Rochester Parents United will hold a rally today at 6 p.m. to protest the superintendent search. RPU is among the community activist groups that have criticized both the search process and the finalists the search produced. The rally will be held at The Cross of
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City editorial staff on April 2nd, 2012
Rochester Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas will present his proposed budget for next year at a school board meeting tomorrow night. Vargas is expected to say that the district will face a budget gap in excess of $40 million, and he'll present his plan for closing that gap. The
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City editorial staff on March 26th, 2012
Water quality has been one of the region's top environmental issues for some time. But the problems constantly evolve, and new ones emerge.
The environmental group Color Brighton Green will hold a program on regional water-quality issues at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. Two Monroe
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City editorial staff on March 12th, 2012
The Rochester Planning Commission will consider a proposal tonight to establish a Marina District at the Port of Rochester. The district would encompass properties on North River Street and Lake Avenue, where the city has plans to redevelop the port, primarily for housing and a marina. The new district would
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City editorial staff on March 5th, 2012
The Rochester school district will hold a brainstorming session tonight to hear suggestions from parents and community members on a proposal for an alternative high school. The event will be held at the district's central office building, 131 West Broad Street, at 6 p.m.
Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas recently proposed opening
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City editorial staff on February 20th, 2012
The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council will have its first meeting of 2012 on Wednesday at Monroe Community College, an Empire State Development spokesperson says.
A time for the meeting hasn't been set yet.
Ultimately, the Finger Lakes council will be working to secure state economic development aid, as will regional
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