Even plenty of sunshine and unseasonably warm weather wasn’t enough to draw more than a dozen or so people to Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte during a recent afternoon. Seagulls well outnumbered cars in the Port of Rochester’s huge parking lot. And that’s just fine with some people who live and spend time there. The […]
Charlotte development
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Feedback 10/1
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Feedback 9/24
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. For our print edition, we select and edit comments from all three sources. On the waterfront Development plans for the Charlotte port area are drawing comments from both opponents and supporters. A sample of recent submissions: […]
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Feedback 5/14
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River views
The temperature inside the meeting hall has risen by several degrees. At least that’s what it feels like at the public hearing when the question-and-answer period — which becomes more interrogation than questioning — begins. “I just wish you would back off on some of the building development,” says one Charlotte resident. “You negate or […]
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Metro ink – 5.10.06
STILL PLANNING THE ‘ZONE’ It’s been almost a year since Rochester’s school superintendent, Manuel Rivera, unveiled his ambitious surround-care plan for the northeast quadrant of the city. Rivera’s concept, which he modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, targets the environmental conditions that produce generations of children who enter school unprepared to learn. The northeast area […]
