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According to a statement released by the Barnes Firm, founder Steve Barnes and his niece, Elizabeth Barnes have passed away in an airplane crash. The statement reads: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we acknowledge the loss of Steve Barnes and his niece Elizabeth Barnes following a tragic accident earlier today. Steve was […]
On Monday, the Frederick Douglass-Greater Rochester International Airport found out that it would receive $2.4 million in federal funding. The announcement came from senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in a press release that read: “Air travel is vital to the connectivity and success of the Upstate economy, which is why, as New York recovers […]
On Sunday, the Penfield Central School District announced that one of the members of its varsity basketball team tested positive for COVID-19 and now the entire team will enter a mandatory quarantine. The Monroe County Department of Health let the district and school know about the diagnosis as soon as it could. According to the […]
Saturday morning, former lieutenant with the Rochester Police Department, Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan was named interim Police Chief. With this decree, she has become the first woman to lead the RPD. She starts on October 14th and the nationwide search for a permanent police chief will start on June 21st, 2021, after the Democratic Primary. Herriott-Sullivan commented […]
On Thursday, protests demanding justice for Daniel Prude and Breonna Taylor resumed in Rochester. Local Black Lives Matter group Free The People ROC organized a demonstration that began at 6:30 on Jefferson Avenue in Rochester. The march went downtown and made it to the Public Safety Building around 10:00 p.m. The peaceful protestors then sat […]
DRYS to Host Rochester City Soccer League Fall Clinics at Rochester Community Sports Complex (Friday, Sep. 25, 2020) – The City’s Department of Recreation and Youth Services has announced that a series of fall soccer clinics, hosted by the Rochester City Soccer League, will begin on Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Rochester Community Sports Complex, […]
An entire West Irondequoit middle school class in under quarantine after one student tested positive for COVID-19. A student at Rogers Middle School who had the virus came into close contact with at least one student who now tests positive as well. There is no evidence that the transmission happened in school, but just to […]
A bitcoin mining company called Founder is planning on investing $100 million into a new operation in Rochester as it expands from New York. CEO Mike Colyer says that bitcoin is here to stay and the company wants to take advantage of the bright minds that gather in Rochester. “So Bitcoin mining is basically the […]
A new multi-million dollar production facility is coming to Geneva and creating new high tech jobs. Multinational chemical production company Henkel has announced a multi-million dollar expansion to their plant in Geneva, which will be brining in more dollars to the local economy that is still reeling from the devastation that COVID-19 has caused. Mike […]
Low risk Section V sports will resume practicing today after the longest hiatus in recent history concludes. The Monroe County Public School Athletic Conference has elected to wait an additional week and will start practices on Monday, the 28th. This decision will allow more information on re-opening procedures to be analyzed and will give the […]