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Telesca Center receives $90,000 in state funding
The new state grant will support the Telesca Center for Justice, which brought legal services to over 50,000 Rochester residents last year.
Livingston County Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Celebrates 20 Years of Care
MOUNT MORRIS, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2025 — Livingston County Administrator Shannon Hillier joined County officials, caregivers and community members at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation today to celebrate the County nursing facility’s 20th anniversary.
George Eastman Museum workers seek union, file for NLRB election
The organizing group, which calls itself George Eastman Museum Workers United, says a majority of museum employees supports its push for union representation.
When neighbors crossed the threshold
Rochester has a rich inheritance of interfaith hospitality, an important legacy at a time when Americans know remarkably little about one another's religious traditions.

How Canandaigua’s Peacemaker Brewing landed $389,000 in state funding
Documents provide an inside look at the Downtown Revitalization Initiative process that made Peacemaker Brewing one of 10 projects to share $9.7 million in state funds.
Senior quartet leads Kendall spikers
Merged Roy-Hart/Medina girls varsity soccer team preps for first N-O League season
Finishing in the runner-up spot last fall the now merged Roy-Hart/Medina girls soccer team returns a good nucleus with which to again challenge for top Niagara-Orleans League honors. Low participation numbers over the last couple of years has caused Medina to join with Roy-Hart.…
Hawks open with win over Purple Eagles
Albion downs Holley in volleyball opener
Albion Family Dental hygienists grateful for small-town atmosphere, patient connections
Sponsored Content ALBION – Albion Family Dental will be expanding, adding more space with renovations this fall to better serve patients. The dental practice has already added another full-time hygienist. Ashley Rush recently joined Albion Family Dental as a hygienist. She…
Albion and Barker golfers win N-O openers
Balanced scoring earned Albion a 235-269 win over Wilson in a season opening Niagara-Orleans League golf match at Hickory Ridge this morning. Albion had four players in the 40’s as Gavin Boyce shot 43, Owen Spencer 46, Drew Pritchard 47 and Viktor Snyder 49. Wilson’s Ben Meyers…
A roadside stands app’s rapid growth
Launched Aug. 11, Stands By Me helps users find and support farm stands, roadside sellers and small producers. It already has expanded to 33 states.