Today is the last day of operation for the Clover Lanes bowling alley on Monroe Avenue in Brighton. The 50-lane alley and the former Mario’s Italian Restaurant are being torn down to make room for Palazzo Plaza, a high-end retail development. The plaza would be anchored by a Whole Foods store. Clover Lanes is moving […]
Christine Carrie Fien
I'm City's news editor, which means I oversee all aspects of our news-gathering operation. I also sneak in to an occasional City Council meeting and cover Rochester's intriguing and eclectic neighbors. My family has a long legacy here, and I'm proud to continue to represent.
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Rochester: Connecting the dots
Think you’re seeing the same faces again and again in city and county government? You are. Take a peek behind the curtain.
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Panel offers hard truths for Rochester
It’s not easy to hear an outsider’s appraisal of your faults. In Rochester’s case, the evaluation comes from members of the Rose Fellowship, which brings officials from different parts of the country together to essentially size up each other’s cities. The fellows studied three areas of downtown Rochester: Main Street between Plymouth Avenue and Chestnut […]
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City of Rochester querying arts patrons about downtown PAC
The City of Rochester is surveying arts patrons regarding a possible new performing arts center downtown. The city is currently studying the feasibility and economic impact of a downtown PAC. Two sites are under consideration: the former Renaissance Square site at Main and Clinton, and the old Midtown site in the heart of downtown. The […]
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Hidden history: An RIT professor helps recover ancient texts
If the revolutionary knowledge contained in works by legendary Greek mathematician Archimedes had been available earlier, many scholars say, it could’ve altered the course of modern science. Instead, the works disappeared into a void for about 1,000 years. The newly recovered works show, among other things, that Archimedes anticipated calculus, the basis for modern engineering […]
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School board seeks community input on superintendent search
The Rochester school board wants community input on the search for a new schools superintendent. Community members can fill out a survey that is “designed to help identify the particular qualities and experience desired in the next leader of the district,” a press release says. You can complete the survey on the district’s website, or e-mail […]
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City dog park tryout could happen this spring
Your dog’s dream of a legal off-leash romp within the Rochester city limits could soon be realized. City officials are looking at a couple of sites to pilot a dog park program beginning in late spring or early summer. The possible sites are the Washington Grove area of Cobbs Hill Park, and a large chunk […]
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True-crime author takes on brutal 1966 Chili double homicide
Before the Alphabet Killer, before Shawcross, and before America’s weird obsession with serial killers and forensic science, there was Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formicola. The girls, friends who grew up poor in a rural part of the Town of Chili in western Monroe County, were abducted and horrifically murdered in June 1966. Bernard was 16. […]
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Skatepark could be homeless again
The City of Rochester is soliciting ideas to convert Genesee Crossroads-Charles Carroll Plaza on Andrews Street along the river from a little-used, little-noticed park into a reinvigorated year-round destination. Early ideas include swinging seats, a perennial garden, outdoor exercise equipment, lighting features, and performance space. The plans mostly likely do not, however, include a skatepark. […]
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Week ahead: For the week of Monday, February 22
Rochester For Progress will hold a downtown march for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 27. The march starts at City Hall, 30 Church Street, and participants are asked to wear their “Bernie gear.” The route is about 1.5 miles. The date was chosen, according to organizers, […]
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What if someone starts shooting? Seminar helps you plan
Once you may have worried about getting caught stealing pens from the office supply closet. Now you have to worry about getting shot at your desk. In a depressing reflection of the state of the country, two area business groups will hold a seminar next month on how to respond if someone walks into your […]
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Strong expansion could be in the works
Rumors have been circulating for weeks now that the Strong museum is considering an expansion. It makes sense, given the land that will be available once the nearby section of the Inner Loop is filled in and ready for development. Strong Director of Development Shane Rhinewald says that an expansion is possible, but that the […]
