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Published 11 hours agoAlbion adds first of 3 small basketball courts at neighborhood parks
Photos by Tom Rivers ALBION – The Village of Albion has a new basketball hoop on a concrete quarter court at St. Joseph’s Park on North Clinton Street. The smaller court was paid with state funds administered by the Orleans County Youth Bureau. Another one of the smaller…
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Published September 26County Planning Board recommends zoning change in Albion to allow for 70 housing units
ALBION – The Orleans County Planning Board is recommending the Village of Albion approve a zoning change to allow for the housing project at west end of Washington Street and West State Street. The zoning for the land in the late 1990s was changed to a “Mobile Home Park”…
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Published September 25New owners for Pratt, Day & Day buildings see sites as downtown hub for Albion
Michael Bonafede, Judith Koehler praised for work reviving historic complex ALBION – Twenty years ago the fate of the Pratt Opera House and the neighboring Day and Day Building looked grim. The old opera house had a stage thick with pigeon poop and bird carcasses. It hadn’t…
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Published September 23County declares Central Hall surplus property, will be sold by realtor
ALBION – The county will soon be putting a historic building in Courthouse Square up for sale. The County Legislature on Tuesday authorized Woodroe Realty to the list Central Hall for sale. Woodroe was among six real estate businesses to submit proposals to the county for selling…
Rochester Beacon
Published September 16City to plant fast-growing native forest
The Miyawaki Forest Project is an urban forestry initiative that will transform an old parking lot over a few decades.
Orleans Hub
Published September 10Yates officials urged to keep STRs off private lanes
Editor: I have handed in to the town and to the Orleans Hub some good reasons why a STR (short-term rental) or airbnb should not be on an easement, shared lane, or private shared lane. On a private one-way lane, when approximately 10 people reside on the lane, it’s a private…
Rochester Beacon
Published August 26City Council approves legislation for downtown projects
The measures will fund Parcel 5 improvements and redevelopment work to create Main Street Commons.