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After being remote for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Diabetes Association’s Tour De Cure is back! This cycling event will take place next Saturday, June 11th at the Xerox Campus. It is expected that more than 600 riders are to take part in this special event. Riders can choose […]
As of June 1st, the pause on gas taxes has officially begun in New York, and many are starting to notice the slight difference. Several counties, including Monroe, followed the state’s lead in capping their local sales tax, and it could save drivers roughly 24 cents a gallon. Mark Walton, who has owned Bowen’s Sunoco […]
As the warm days approach us, many are concerned about the nationwide shortage of lifeguards that could prevent about a third of the country’s pools and beaches to close this summer. Rochester is still working on recruitment before public swimming spaces open on July 5th, where the city needs to hire 25 to 30 lifeguards […]
With the horrific events that happened in Texas and Buffalo, New York lawmakers are debating what is next in the future of gun laws. With the shootings being only a week apart, New York Lawmakers have spoken out. Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand stated: “These incidents are becoming all too common and point to the […]
Yesterday in East Greenbush during an Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns meeting, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke out on her plans to raise the firearm age in New York. This news follows after the tragic shooting in Texas. Gov. Hochul called on State Police to check on school districts every day until the end of […]
A New York State-wide U.S History Regents exam has been canceled because of potentially traumatizing content in the test in light of a mass shooting in Buffalo. The exam was set to be given on June 1st, but after the New York State Department of Education reviewed Regents exam content and found that this particular […]
Yesterday morning, local leaders and Governor Kathy Hochul stopped at Monroe Community College to celebrate the grand opening of the Finger Lakes Workforce Development (FWD) Center. Located on the fifth and sixth floors of MCC’s Downtown Campus, the $11.4 million 50,000-square-foot center will serve as a regional hub for career training, focusing on technology-oriented training […]
New York State Health officials announced over this weekend that a New York City resident has tested positive for the virus that causes monkeypox. While they wait for further confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control, the unidentified patient isolates and treats the case as positive. According to the CDC, Monkeypox is “ a rare […]
Rochester’s Jazz Fest is coming up and the performers have slightly changed. Country music singer Wynona Judd has canceled her upcoming appearance at the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival due to the death of her mother. Judd’s mom passed from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 30 and Judd announced that she’s still taking time […]
I don’t know if you are ready to hear this but Gas prices are the highest on record for Rochester, NY and the rest of the country. So the average gas prices in all 50 states are over $4.00 for the first time ever in history. According to AAA the national average is $4.589 as […]