Reluctant to take a stand on cannabis dispensaries, town and village leaders are letting residents vote on the matter.
Penfield
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Calendar preview: Summer stretch
With outdoor activities for all the senses, this week’s events let us explore and expand connection through physical (and social) movements.
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Penfield weighs options in sale of golf courses
The Dolomite Group’s plan to sell two Penfield golf courses caught town officials by surprise and has them scrambling to exert some control over the future of the properties. The Town Board will consider enacting a temporary moratorium on development of the land at an upcoming meeting. Dolomite put Shadow Lakes and Shadow Pines on […]
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High-class dog hotel planned for Penfield
The former Camp Haccamo site in Penfield could soon house a high-end dog hotel. Developer Frank Imburgia owns the 11 acre parcel, which is tucked between Route 441, Panorama Trail, Allen Creek, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Imburgia’s representatives say that the proposal is modeled after luxe canine accommodations in cities including Chicago and Los Angeles. […]
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Marina questions
Environmental questions and concerns continue to surround the Daniele family’s plans to expand their marina in Irondequoit Bay. The latest: the Penfield Town Board says that the project needs a full-scale environmental review. The board concluded at a meeting last week that the expansion could significantly affect the bay’s biology and ecology, says Jim Costello, […]
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Penfield may privatize plowing
The Town of Penfield may start using a private contractor to plow some of the town’s subdivisions in the winter. The rest of the plowing would still be done by Penfield’s public works employees. Officials want to know if the move would save money, says Town Supervisor Tony LaFountain, through reductions in overtime and equipment […]
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Changing channels
Time Warner Cable is not taking away PBS. Earlier this month, the cable company informed its Western New York subscribers via a letter that it’s changing how it carries public, educational, and government access television stations. These aren’t public stations in the PBS sense, even though some subscribers clearly believe they are. They’re better known […]
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Charging ahead
Fairport’s municipal electric company got its first electric vehicle about a decade ago: a Ford pickup truck with a bed full of lead-acid batteries. The village and the utility it operates have a longstanding policy of embracing electrified vehicles, says village administrator Ken Moore, and Fairport has several hybrid vehicles — thankfully, much more advanced […]
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A loss and a win on Binghamton’s fracking ban
A state Supreme Court justice has struck down the City of Binghamton’s moratorium on fracking and related activities, reports the New York Times. But the same judge also affirmed that communities have the right to exclude drilling activities through zoning laws. The New York Times quotes state Supreme Court Justice Ferris Lebous’s decision, which according […]
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Can you say adobe?
When you think of local suburban housing, and you think of Penfield, you probably imagine row upon row of subdivisions, one house not much different from the next, with a couple of barns tossed in here and there the farther out you drive. Just ask me, I live there. Post-1960s suburban housing design lacked a […]
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Penfield: two for super
The town of Penfield is used to challenges. In recent years, for example, there have been floods in the Panorama Valley that made a temporary mess of some homes and businesses — and, some say, highlighted the problems of inappropriate development in a floodplain. (Federal, state, and local officials are on the case.) […]
