Beacon Notes
The Beacon at 3: focused on growth
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Launched on Oct. 18, 2018, the Beacon in the coming year will work to deliver even more its audience.
Culture
Pop waltzing beneath psychedelic clouds
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Rochester’s sensational multi-instrumentalist Sam Nitsch rolls out his new release.
Health & Science
The rural fight against COVID
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Health officials in outlying parts of the Rochester-Finger Lakes region have been grappling with vaccine hesitancy and general challenges of vaccinating rural populations.
Events
Evans: ‘Trust must be restored’
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In a Rochester Beacon online event, City Council member Malik Evans discussed the challenges facing the city and how he will tackle them as mayor.
Community
ESL gives $1.5 million to nursing development program
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The funds will support the training, education and job placement of low-income individuals in the field.
Economy & Business
A hazard in the road for Hyzon Motors
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The Honeoye Falls-based company faces a class action shareholder complaint drawn from an activist investment firm’s report that Hyzon has labeled “inflammatory and grossly inaccurate.”
Education
A strong voice for the nursing profession
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Kathy Rideout, who will step down as dean of University of Rochester School of Nursing in June, says in this “season of stress” the focus must remain on the critical importance of the profession’s educators and frontline workers.
Culture
Three-card Monte with a beat
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Saint Free’s take on punk rock spans reggae, ska and even Motown.
Community
Community Foundation leader Jennifer Leonard to retire
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The organization’s president and CEO for 28 years, she plans to step down in September 2022. Simeon Banister, vice president for community programs, has been promoted to executive vice president.
Community
Searching for the Fifth Chaplain
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Are we still able to have national heroes like World War II’s Four Chaplains? Or have we become too divided by politics and ideology?