Reluctant to take a stand on cannabis dispensaries, town and village leaders are letting residents vote on the matter.
Perinton
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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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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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Styk defects, joins Legislature Dems
County Legislature Democrats have poached a member of the Republican caucus. This morning, Democrats announced that Republican Legislator Dorothy Styk will switch her party enrollment and will caucus will their side. That means that Democrats will control 11 of the Legislature’s 29 seats. Styk, whose district covers parts of Perinton and East Rochester, was appointed […]
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Perinton’s crowd-sourced wrecking crew
For the past decade – probably longer – a former gas station at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Fairport Road in Perinton has sat idle and vacant. It’s an eyesore on a busy corridor in the town, one that leads straight into the village of Fairport. On Saturday, the building is coming down. And […]
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Perinton town races could open up Lej seats
Two Perinton-based seats in the Monroe County Legislature seats could go vacant after the November elections. Mike Barker, who’s served in the Legislature since 2004, announced earlier this month that he plans to run for Perinton town supervisor; incumbent Supervisor Jim Smith isn’t seeking re-election. Barker was endorsed by the Perinton Republican Committee last week. […]
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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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‘City’ on a hill
American suburbs are schizo. That’s clear even from the dreary landscape of academic prose. Look at these two diagnoses. On one hand, suburbanites think small is beautiful. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk put it this way in The Second Coming of the American Small Town: “[They] sense what is wrong with the places […]
