A near-final version of the city’s master plan for the west half of Genesee Valley Park will get a public airing this week.
Genesee River
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Agencies stock Genesee River with young sturgeon
A group of county, state, and federal organizations released more than 1,000 lake sturgeon fingerlings into the Genesee River today. The fish were hatched in June at the State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Oneida fish hatchery. Early this afternoon, a DEC boat took them to Seth Green Island where they were released. The sturgeon will […]
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OUTDOORS: Whatever floats your boat
When fall rolls in, and the temperatures cool down, spending time outdoors becomes even more enjoyable. No more sunburns, no more sweating, and no more humidity. It’s not time to go inside just yet. Now is your chance to throw on a light jacket, and do things it was too hot to do just a […]
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More good news for sturgeon
Approximately 10 years ago, federal, state, and university scientists took a gamble and reintroduced lake sturgeon into the Genesee River. They believed that the river’s water quality and pollution levels had improved enough that the fish could survive, grow, and ultimately reproduce. And so far, they’ve been right. The fish are growing at good rates, […]
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Week Ahead: County moves to restrict gifts; waterfront planning in the city
Monroe County Legislature committees are meeting this week.Democrats have introduced legislation to restrict the gifts that county officials can accept. In an introductory memo, Democrat Josh Bauroth writes that the current prohibition on accepting gifts is too vague. Current county law prohibits county employees and officials from receiving gifts exceeding $25 if “it could be […]
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On the streets where you live
Monroe County is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages. The Genesee River and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are […]
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Money challenges for waterfront project
It’s difficult to view the abandoned campus in the Flint Street area of southwest Rochester and not see the possibilities, as well as the clearly daunting challenges. The 25-acre industrial ghost town is on the western bank of the Genesee River between the Ford Street bridge and the recently reopened railroad bridge crossing. It’s secluded, […]
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A boost for Rochester riverfront development?
The Vacuum Oil industrial site in southwest Rochester typified the city’s manufacturing muscle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when busy factories dotted the area. But the now-rundown 25-acre collection of public and private properties on the west bank of the Genesee River at Flint Street could see a revival. A bill sponsored […]
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Yogurt, Lake Ontario, and regulations
FILE PHOTO New York’s yogurt boom may have an unseen byproduct: cow poop. It’s not a glamorous subject; agriculture often isn’t. But the yogurt boom is being talked about as a much-needed boost for New York’s dairy farmers. So much so that Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to amend a key set of dairy industry environmental […]
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Crossing the Genesee
Photographs by Gary Ventura Sitting in a small green flatbed boat, John Morehouse says he has become pretty good at running construction crews back and forth between the land where materials for the new Troup-Howell Bridge are unloaded and stored and the construction barges floating out on the river. Navigating the Genesee is trickier than […]
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Suspense
It’s so gray, it’s hard to tell it’s 10 in the morning. And we’re surrounded by mist, as if a micro-sprinkler in the vegetable aisle were hanging overhead. In the trailer on Exchange Street, we gear up in hard hats, safety glasses, and bright orange vests before heading over to the barges parked on the […]
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The vital center: river talk
Stand beside the Genesee River in the middle of downtown — the several hundred yard stretch from East Main north to Andrews Street — and you feel the impure thoughts welling up. Is this a river or a canal? What’s in that soup of muddy water and driftwood? Is this a living stream or a […]
