This year’s festival will span three weekends and visitors will be required to wear masks.
City news staff
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Finger Lakes COVID-19 positivity rate falls
The Finger Lakes now has the third lowest rate in the state, with only Central New York and the Southern Tier recording lower percentages.
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VOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2020 Final Ballot
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s how to make the best of a bad situation. With that in mind, we present our annual Best of Rochester readers’ poll.
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VOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2020 Primary Ballot
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s how to make the best of a bad situation. With that in mind, we present our annual Best of Rochester readers’ poll.
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Students plead: Don’t take our teachers
The Rochester Teachers Association said a third of city school student body could lose at least one teacher from the district’s proposed layoffs.
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Second Dinolfo administration official announces departure
Parks Director Larry Staub announced his retirement last week. Now, Robert Franklin, the county’s chief financial officer, will follow suit.
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Doorley fends off challenger
This year’s Monroe County district attorney race smoldered through August and September, but suddenly turned into a blaze last month. The hard-fought contest saw Republican incumbent Sandra Doorley challenged by Democrat Shani Curry Mitchell, who served under her as a prosecutor for more than five years. Doorley will hang on to the job though; with […]
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Rochester voters overwhelmingly approve Police Accountability Board
Rochester voters overwhelmingly approve Police Accountability Board City of Rochester voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the creation of Police Accountability Board, setting the stage for a legal challenge from the union representing city police. Whether to create such a board was put to voters in the form of a referendum that, with about 50 percent […]
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Former Housing Authority chair faces more charges
George Moses, the former chair of the Rochester Housing Authority and the executive director or North East Area Development (NEAD), has been indicted on 28 charges, including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and lying to the FBI. The charges are connected to an alleged scheme to defraud Rochester Housing Charities, a subsidiary of the Rochester Housing Authority, […]
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Dems gear up for intense campaign
Individual legislative-district committees have begun holding their designating meetings.
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Election Day 2018
For today: Everything you need to know for the upcoming November 6th election day. And tonight: we’ll post results here after the polls close.
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For Louise Slaughter’s seat: Joe Morelle
To resist President Trump, it’s essential that Democrats hold this seat. Morelle is their best chance to do that.
