Jay Eastman, who founded three Rochester-area tech firms and championed the optics industry, died in April.
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Museum momentum
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Frederick Douglass’ descendants hope to inspire healing and reconciliation with a new downtown ‘home’ for the 19th century orator, writer and activist—the Frederick Douglass Museum Center for Knowledge, Equality and Justice.
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Growing your own … backyard wheat
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Most children raised in cities and suburbs have no hands-on understanding of where their food comes from, unless we show them. Growing your own wheat—and other field crops—in your backyard is one way to give them that knowledge.
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The lady of the street rises again
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La Madonna Della Strada, an organization started by Sister Grace Miller and her supporters, seeks to create a new center for unhoused services.
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A leader in local philanthropy, business
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John “Dutch” Summers Jr., who died April 7 at 84, built a business empire and became a leading Rochester philanthropist, but he did so out of the spotlight.
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Monroe County lost population during pandemic
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In the Rochester-Finger Lakes region, only Ontario County gained residents from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022.
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Inside the struggle over Code Blue
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Even with a mild winter, snowy days have shown failings in the Rochester shelter system.
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Women’s soccer finds new turf with premier league
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Rochester NY Football Club has formed an alliance with the Women’s Premier Soccer League. The team will compete this season.
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The road to rent stability
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Tenant rights activists would like the city of Rochester to limit rent increases. Meeting that request has proved to be a challenge.
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Finding peace through horsemanship
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At its new location in Rush, Black-owned ranch A Horse’s Friend continues to help urban youth.
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An invitation to dialogue
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A recent event hosted by the Levine Center to End Hate asks, can white Jews and African Americans find the common ground they once had?