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New to the Seneca Park Zoo is a baby giraffe! Over the weekend, Iggy, one of the zoo’s female Masai giraffes, gave birth to her first calf. Due to the exciting addition added, the zoo’s Animals of the Savanna building will remain closed for the next few days, to ensure Iggy and her calf are […]
Over the weekend, Main Street Armory hosted the city’s first BrickUniverse LEGO Convention. The event featured artists from near and far displaying dozens of works that included a seated King Triton, an 8-foot-high LEGO Model of New York City’s Woolworth Building, a replica of Burj Khalifa, the largest skyscraper in the world, plus the full […]
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Monroe County, among other counties, has been put back into a high-risk zone for COVID transmission. Other counties joining Monroe is Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, and Yates. Monroe County Executive Adam Bello stated: “In some ways, I’m not surprised. We’ve seen these high […]
Yesterday afternoon, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans met with city officials at the Central Library of Rochester to reveal the completed renovations of the library’s “secret room.” The renovations of the ‘secret room’ is a famous hidden Rochester landmark, located on the second floor of the Bausch & Lomb Building of the Central Library, that is […]
If you were planning on taking the Inner loop today, you better act fast. The New York State Department of Transportation partnered with the City of Rochester to clean the expressway. It’s planned to be closed from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. The spring cleaning includes each department bringing crews in to remove litter and […]
While the weather barely feels like spring, Rochester is preparing for this year’s Summer Soul Music Festival. Yesterday, the organizers of the summer music festival announced that the headliner Monday is none other than singer, songwriter, and producer Babyface. The festival will take place at Frontier Field and will kick off at 5 pm on […]
Yesterday, Wegmans announced that they plan to eliminate plastic bags throughout the company by the end of 2022. As we all know, New York State stopped using plastic bags two years ago because of state law, but that is not the case everywhere else in the world. Wegman’s goal is to shift all customers to […]
We are starting to see a spike in COVID-19 cases across the county from the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.2. Earlier this week there were 695 new COVID cases, 169 people are hospitalized, and 16 of them in the ICU. Robert Mayo, Rochester Regional Health’s chief medical officer, recently spoke out on the surge, stating: […]
Yesterday, you might have noticed that the Joseph A. Floreano Convention Center was packed. That’s because the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce put on the new Roc on Tech conference, featuring a pretty big name in the technology world. None other than co-founder the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, was the featured keynote speaker. Wozniak […]
According to Fortune Magazine, Wegmans ranks number three on the best companies to work for. This is Fortune’s 35th anniversary of the 100 Best Companies to Work For List and Wegmans 25th time being on the list. Fortune says that the list is based on an analysis of survey responses from more than 4.5 million […]