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Looking at the broader picture may make you wonder about priorities. The City School District's transportation policy provides busing only for kids who live more than 1.5 miles from school - neighborhood safety isn't factored into who gets bused and who doesn't. | Meanwhile, just a phone call away
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Texting is often seen as a frivolous exercise; an indulgence of an easily distracted, constantly connected culture. But the ubiquity of cell phones, paired with young people's technological virtuosity, present opportunities beyond idle chatter. | "Txt 4 Help" is a new initiative of National Safe Place, which provides havens for
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City Council member Lovely Warren says that she fully supports letting the fire department use vacant houses for training. She just wants to know, she says, that the monument to their training won't be left standing ad infinitum. "I don't have a problem with them tearing a hole in the roof
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The Landmark Society wants to sell or lease the Campbell-Whittlesey House, one of two house museums that the society operates. The society has owned the house at 123 South Fitzhugh Street since 1937. Executive Director Joanne Arany says that a declining number of visitors, finances, and the gradual evolution
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Less than 10 minutes after leaving his van to run an errand at the Public Safety Building, a city resident, who does not want to be identified, returned to find his Honda Odyssey being towed away. The tow-truck operator told the resident to call the towing company in 15 minutes. The
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St. John Fisher is often overshadowed by its headline-grabbing sister colleges in Rochester; it doesn't have a fancy new arts center or scientists conducting cutting-edge medical research. The school's profile did get a serious bump, however, when the Buffalo Bills moved their training camp to Fisher in 2000. The camp
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Private citizens will be able to pursue civil cases against the owners of suspected drug houses under a new initiative conceived by City Council member Adam McFadden. Rochester Street Watch is being piloted in the Thurston Road neighborhoods in the 19th Ward, where McFadden announced the initiative this morning. Citizens who live
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The following narratives, taken from interviews, have been edited for clarity and brevity. The names of the recovering addicts have been changed. Harvey Harvey, 26, lives in Greece. He started using marijuana when he was 12 or 13, and eventually became a daily heroin user. He says he spent $700 to $800
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To read three stories of recovery, go here. Shawn blames the drugs for a lot: dropping out of college, his more than 50 arrests, and coming thisclose to gunning down his family. But hand on a stack of Bibles, may lightning strike him dead, that was, honest-to-God, a pterodactyl that
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Journalists around the world are facing threats ranging from outright violence to layoffs. | The United Nations Association of Rochester is holding a one-day conference, "Freedom of the Press: A Global Crisis," to examine the issue. | "It's really an opportunity for people to exchange ideas, debate, and to
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Members of Rochester City Council are touring the Auditorium Theatre this afternoon - a fact-gathering mission requested by Council member Lovely Warren. Warren has toured the building previously and says that she wants her colleagues to share her experience. "When you're sitting in the stands, you really can't understand why you can't
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The Great Outdoors will be the venue for some of the performances occurring during the American Association of Community Theatre Festival, which will take place in Rochester in 2011. | The eight-day festival, scheduled to take place June 19-26, will feature short "bench plays" - performances lasting about five minutes
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Nonprofits will no longer get discount rates to rent meeting rooms at the Central Library. The Rochester Public Library used to charge nonprofit groups $25 an hour, but that has increased to $100 an hour, with a two-hour meeting minimum. The minimum meeting time isn't new, but was previously only periodically
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The City of Rochester's $420,000 subsidy to Marina Auto Stadium - formerly Paetec Park - this year, was supposed to be a one-shot deal. Rob Clark, owner and CEO of the Rochester Rhinos, said in the spring that he expects the operation to turn a profit in a year. And
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Although representatives of the city and Ren Square met this afternoon to discuss the possibility of saving the project, there was no progress. City Council member Dana Miller, who attended the meeting, said participants "had a good discussion," but, he said, no one changed their position. There was "no progress forward,
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The fact that the woman confused the church for the Target store that just opened in Chili should tell you that the Father's House is something different. "This is a church?!" she shouted from her car, loud enough to be heard through a steady rain. More closely resembling a large theater
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Read about the July 22 RGRTA press conference and the city's response. Downtown Development Corporation leader presses for the project. County Executive Maggie Brooks writes to Mayor Bob Duffy. Duffy spokesman says the transit center footprint must shrink. Maybe it was always going to play out like this: city officials on one
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Monroe Avenue hasn't been high on the city's list of priorities, says Carolyn Curry, head of the Monroe Village Task Force - a coalition that includes businesses, residents, and the arts. But Curry says she's willing to believe that can change. Curry attended an open house last week put on by
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You never saw this on "Little House on the Prairie." Prior to regular garbage collection, which began in the 20th century, people just tossed their useless items out of a convenient door or window, and left them there. "People's ideas of cleanliness were a lot different than they are now," says Brighton
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The Rev. Henry Turner is grateful that the eyes of the city have finally focused on Dayton Street; residents have been clamoring for the attention for years, he says. But he says he's concerned that the tragedy that elevated Dayton in the public's consciousness might cause people to act rashly. Rochester
