Water is a powerful natural force, with enough brute strength to wash away cities and the persistence to wear down rock. And in humankind’s more practical moments, people have figured out how to work with that force — think of the mills and hydroelectric plants powered by swift streams and waterfalls. But humanity’s relationship with […]
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Staub staying put in Parks Department
Monroe County Parks Department director Larry Staub won’t join the County Legislature after all. Earlier this month, Legislature President Jeff Adair appointed Staub to fill a vacant Perinton-based seat in the Legislature. Staub’s appointment was supposed to be effective today. But yesterday, Staub sent a letter to Adair declining the job and Adair withdrew the […]
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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 […]
