The first business in Brighton’s long fought-over Whole Foods Plaza opened on Friday. But the legal fight is far from over.
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Calendar preview: Looking up
This week’s preview highlights the action in the sky from day to night, and live music on the ground, from Baroque to noise.
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Calendar preview: A summer switcheroo
This week’s mix of live, streamed, and drive-through socials, concerts, garden tours, theater, and talks give you options to stay in or venture out responsibly.
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Both sides claim win in Whole Foods court decision
An appellate court tossed two challenges to the Whole Foods Plaza project, but remanded a third back to the lower court.
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Brighton FD to town: No more speed bumps, humps please
Speed humps slow fire trucks down and can damage the expensive vehicles.
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More suburbs partner on renewable energy
The towns of Irondequoit, Brighton, and Pittsford, as well as the Village of Pittsford, will likely join the growing ranks of New York communities using community choice aggregation to bring clean, renewable energy to their residents and small businesses en masse. Under a CCA program, local governments contract with energy suppliers on behalf of their […]
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Plan to remove trees along canal delayed
The New York State Canal Corporation is pausing its plan to remove large numbers of trees from the banks of the Erie Canal west of Fairport. Earlier this year, the Canal Corporation began a preventive maintenance project that involved removing trees from 56 sites between the Village of Medina in Orleans County and the Village of […]
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Judge orders environmental review of canal plan
A state judge has ordered the New York State Canal Corporation to go back and complete a thorough environmental review before it removes any trees from canal banks in Brighton, Pittsford, and Perinton. Acting Supreme Court Justice Daniel Barrett issued his ruling yesterday in a lawsuit brought by the three towns. The governments sued the […]
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Irondequoit, Brighton sue county over maintenance fee policy
The towns of Brighton and Irondequoit are suing the county over a policy change that they say will limit their ability to address abandoned, neglected, and problem properties.
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[Updated ]JCC threatened again; rally against anti-Semitism today
For the second time in a week, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester has received a bomb threat and evacuated its building on Edgewood Avenue in Brighton. The center closed temporarily, but will reopen at 3 p.m. Brighton police are investigating the threat — just as they are the one received by the JCC […]
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Week ahead: Events for the week of June 20
The Town of Brighton will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Wednesday regarding the Daniele family’s proposed Whole Foods Plaza. The hearing will take place at Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. The hearing is specifically about the developer’s draft environmental statement for the project, as well as its incentive zoning application. The Danieles […]
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Clinic worries Brighton residents
Growing opioid dependence in the Rochester region is straining local treatment facilities, including UR Medicine’s outpatient Strong Recovery program. The health system wants to move Strong Recovery — which treats alcohol and drug dependency, including opioid addiction — from Strong Memorial Hospital’s R-Wing on Crittenden Boulevard to the Brighton Business Center at 2613 West Henrietta […]
