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Let them eat snow

James Leach

On the Sunday before Christmas, the stalls at the Long Season Market in Brighton are heaped with fresh produce and the aisles are crowded with self-described locavores who are eager to take it home with them. There are beets that are still icy cold and wet to the touch, alongside parsnips, turnips, a few radishes, […]

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Of food and felonies

CITY STAFF

Adam Durand’s palms were sweating. A few minutes before 2 p.m. last Thursday, a Wayne County court clerk addressed the 26-year-old packaging designer from Rochester as “the defendant” and asked him to rise. “When I was asked to stand to hear the verdict, it was an incredible moment,” he recalls. “My heart was racing.” Durand […]

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No threats, please

Avatar photo Mary Anna Towler

Oh, for heaven’s sake. I expect big-business leaders to stand together, but this buzz about Wegmans is getting a bit much.             Wegmans has wanted to build a couple of big new stores, on the county fairgrounds property on Calkins Road in Henrietta and on Elmwood Avenue on the former RochesterPsychiatricCenter campus. And it plans […]

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Pre-emptive petitioning

CITY STAFF

Pre-emptive petitioning David Day of the Azalea Neighborhood Association isn’t sure who his future neighbors on Elmwood Avenue will be. He knows, however, who he doesn’t want: Wegmans or any other large-scale commercial operation.             New York State owns the land now occupied by the Terrance Building of the Rochester Psychiatric Center. Soon, the state […]

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East meets Wegs

Chad Oliveiri

If Wegmans proceeds with its plans to double the size of its East Avenue store, only one thing seems to be certain: That section of East Avenue near Winton Road — generally considered the gateway to the East Avenue Preservation District — may change. Drastically.             If some neighbors’ worst fears materialize, the north side […]

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