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Eastman left mark as entrepreneur, inventor and optics industry leader
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Jay Eastman, who founded three Rochester-area tech firms and championed the optics industry, died in April.
Community
An entrepreneur and education philanthropist
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Joseph M. Lobozzo II, who died May 12, built JML Optical Industries from a one-man operation into a multimillion-dollar business. He also was a generous contributor to RIT and UR.
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ESL awards nearly $9 million in grants to nonprofits
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The credit union gave 119 grants in the first quarter to organizations that provide critical services and programs for individuals, children, youth and families.
Community
Will the real Columbus please stand up?
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After nearly 600 years, the Vatican has formally disowned the Doctrine of Discovery. But its legacy remains at the heart of the debate over European nations’ colonization of the New World—including Upstate New York—and whether to “cancel” Columbus.
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Building a collaborative future
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The Levine Center to End Hate youth summit seeks to help young changemakers focus on the principles of collective impact and amplify their voices together.
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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.