Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/community/page/2/)
Members of the Rochester community will mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary today. Kit Miller, director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, believes Rochester has a big role to play in promoting nonviolence.
Fleeing pograms, my family started a new life in America.
Will others get the same chance?
Kathryn Mariner, a cultural anthropologist, is researching placemaking in the city of Rochester, through Fertile Ground, a visual, large-scale, multi-year project.
The legal action brought last week by neighbors of the former Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School campus followed City Council approval of rezoning for Angelo Ingrassia’s redevelopment plan.
Facing sex-abuse claims, the Catholic Diocese of Rochester has asked court protection from creditors while it reorganizes. Still, much remains to be determined as to how the bankruptcy will play out.
After Jane and her husband, Larry Glazer, died in a plane crash five years ago today, they were remembered as successful business owners, boosters of downtown and philanthropists. But teaching, Jane’s brother writes, was her lifelong passion. And for those who knew her as teacher and mentor, she had a lasting impact.
In many U.S. regions, good-paying jobs and college-educated people are returning to cities, reversing suburban flight. New research by urban studies expert Richard Florida offers the opportunity to benchmark Rochester against the nation’s largest cities.
The new Rochester Police Department leader says he’s “chief for everyone,” but as an African American he understands why some in the community have little faith they will be treated fairly by law enforcement officers. He plans to earn their trust.
The foreign born are inseparable from Rochester’s history and identity. And they could be key to revitalizing a city that has seen both people and jobs migrate elsewhere.
“First Light,” an exhibit of photography and writing by women combat veterans in Rochester, explores their stories and gives voice to a largely unacknowledged segment of the community.