In a February 21 press release, Monroe County Clerk Maggie Brooks reacted to the state’s decision to close its Department of Motor Vehicles office in Sibley Centre on East Main Street, effective April 1 — making Rochester the only major city in the state without such a service downtown. “While any change can be […]
Downtown
Reader feedback 2.5.03
Debating ‘Roe,’ yuppie saviors, the School Board, and Buddhism
Tow job
The tail-end of a night on the town. It’s 2 a.m. Love is in the air, the air that now occupies the space where you left your car hours before. Towed! Your ride has been dragged to an unfamiliar industrial zone somewhere on the north side. Your evening out, wrecked. You finally find […]
Reader feedback 8.14.02
We didn’t want this, Clearly shocked, Building downtown, Weird’s humor, God and the pledge, Confessions of a thriftaholic…
If we build it, will they come?
What will it take to breathe life into the center of downtown Rochester? The
corporate crusaders of Wilmorite Inc. thought they had an answer.






