Attorney Peter J. Pullano is planning to spend a bit of time with his late brother. Pullano will embark Wednesday on the five-day, 420-mile AIDS Red Ribbon Ride in memory of his brother Patrick, who died of the disease in ...
Read More »After rail tragedy, the little guy won
The horse-drawn carriage carrying Porter D. Smith and his family approached the railroad crossing on a Farmington road known today as County Road 22 on a frigid February night in 1900. A Lehigh Valley express train bound for New York ...
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Read More »City, vendors work toward viable food truck plan
City officials appear to be receiving few major complaints about the operations of food trucks as the second summer season of a pilot program winds down, although some details may need to be worked out before final legislation is enacted. ...
Read More »Board backs plan for grocery on West Main
A vacant church building that pit many who live in the West Main Street neighborhood against preservationists who want to save the structure may be demolished — provided a grocery store is the only business that will go in its ...
Read More »Fisher seeks approval for new chapel
Nixon Peabody law partner Robert W. Burgdorf said St. John Fisher College had been talking about a new chapel at least since he was attending the Pittsford college in 1984. Three decades later, Burgdorf on Aug. 11 presented a preliminary ...
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Read More »New Farmington Town Court dedicated
The ceremonial opening of the new Farmington Town Court may have been held over the weekend, but the court was open officially for business about three weeks ago. A two-day jury trial was scheduled to open July 16, and ...
Read More »Travelers can learn from TSA app
Pink-handled claw hammers. Big folding knives. Small knives. Bronze knives. Orange knives. Yellow, green and gun-metal gray knives. “Prohibited in purple, prohibited in pink,” said Lisa Farbstein, public affairs manager with the Transportation Security Administration. TSA officers at the Greater ...
Read More »Ceremony to mark new Farmington Town Court
Cozy might be one way to put it. Cramped is another. At times, the Farmington Town Court operation could be considered downright dangerous. The tiny basement court in the 37-year-old Town Hall has been overcrowded for years, said Town Justice ...
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Read More »Baseball, law make for homerun of a career
For every double off the leftfield wall at Frontier Field that brings fans to their feet comes the behind-the-scenes work resolving liability issues that results in an award-winning, ahead-of-the-curve, allergy-free, gluten-free section of the stadium the Rochester Red Wings call ...
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Read More »Riveros awarded by business association
The constitutional law professor asked the class to tell him something — anything — that didn’t have some connection to law. Easy, one student answered: when you’re born. The professor rattled off a lengthy list of laws that applied to ...
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Read More »Officials: More lights will make for safer boating
Providing more illumination will shine a light on what is known in the boating community as an optical illusion. And proponents of a call to put extra lights on the Summerville Pier on Lake Ontario say it will save lives. ...
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Read More »Mayor: Leaders work together to fix problems
On the same day Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren released details of the city police department’s reorganization, she shared a story of a skeptical young man questioning having young people join with government leaders in correcting the problems of the ...
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