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• Nathaniel Rochester Middle School renamed Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence

  29-09-2021 23:59
  
  The Nathaniel Rochester Middle School has been renamed the Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence in honor of Dr. Alice Holloway Young.
  
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• First Alert Weather In-Depth: What is a waterspout?

  29-09-2021 23:45
  
  Waterspouts are really an amazing sight and in the Rochester area, they're most likely to be seen closer to Lake Ontario.
  
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• Ontario County Sheriff to resign after first round of subpoenas issued in investigation

  29-09-2021 23:40
  
  Ontario County Sheriff Kevin Henderson will resign.
  
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• RCSD inches closer to 100% vaccinations, some staff members would rather test-out

  29-09-2021 23:17
  
  This week we've seen two deadlines for vaccination mandates.
  
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• Pittsford students walk out of school, protesting district's response to racist video

  29-09-2021 23:14
  
  Students in the Pittsford Central School District walked out of class on Wednesday morning in response to the district’s handling of a threatening, racist video that made the rounds on social media earlier this week.
  
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• Coronavirus in Monroe County: 240 new cases

  29-09-2021 22:56
  
  According to the Monroe County Health Department, more than 76,930 people in the county have tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• Consumer Alert: Congressional Report finds high levels of heavy metals in baby food. Here’s how to protect your baby.

  29-09-2021 22:47
  
  A new report by a congressional subcommittee studying the heavy levels in baby food found that not only are the levels often alarmingly high, the FDA is moving too slowly to protect consumers.
  
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• First Alert Weather: Cool air and passing showers Thursday

  29-09-2021 22:42
  
  We recorded the coolest air since May Wednesday morning, with low temperatures dipping into the lower and mid-40s.
  
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• Deputies: Man charged with failure to register as a sex offender

  29-09-2021 21:45
  
  The Ontario County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday arrested a man and charged him with failing to register as a sex offender.
  
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• ‘Water is Life’ mural by Seneca artist installed on the Genesee

  29-09-2021 20:39 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Artist Peter Jemison’s new mural depicts the Haudenosaunee creation story and acknowledges the original inhabitants of the region. In the Haudenosaunee creation story, Sky Woman, the daughter of the Great Spirit, descends from the heavens toward a watery world whose animals, fearing for her safety, dredge mud from the bottom of the sea to make the earth grow on the back of a giant turtle.…
  
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• School 3 renamed for trailblazing Black educator Alice Holloway Young

  29-09-2021 20:08 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  The Adams Street school has been renamed from the Nathaniel Rochester Middle School to the Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence. On her 98th birthday, Alice Holloway Young stood in front of the Rochester school where she taught decades ago. She recalled a moment in her childhood when she and her brother would cross state lines from Virginia to North Carolina to attend a school for Black children.…
  
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• Rochester’s School 3 renamed after trailblazing Black educator Alice Holloway Young

  29-09-2021 20:08 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  The Adams Street school has been renamed from the Nathaniel Rochester Middle School to the Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence. On her 98th birthday, Alice Holloway Young stood in front of the Rochester school where she taught decades ago.…
  
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• Fighting wave of misinfo, YouTube bans false vaccine claims

  29-09-2021 19:31
  
  The ban on vaccine misinformation, announced in a blog post on Wednesday, comes as countries around the world continue to offer free immunizations for COVID-19 to a somewhat hesitant public.
  
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• Hochul: 87% of NY healthcare staff are vaccinated

  29-09-2021 19:18
  
  The gov's office made the announcement just two days after the mandate ordering healthcare workers to have at least one dose of the vaccine or face losing their jobs, went into effect.
  
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• Lawmakers, law enforcement continue push against 'Less is More' law

  29-09-2021 18:49
  
  Republican state lawmakers and local law enforcement plan to speak out Wednesday against Governor Hochul's new law, "Less is More."
  
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• Hochul: Harvard professor named next NY Health Commissioner

  29-09-2021 18:08
  
  In a release, Hochul said Dr. Mary T. Bassett will become the next Commissioner of the DOH.
  
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• First round of subpoenas issued in investigation of Ontario County Sheriff

  29-09-2021 17:43
  
  News10NBC Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke Tweeted Wednesday the committee investigating Henderso approved the move.
  
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• Pro Wrestler on Rochester: 'Literally nothing going for it'

  29-09-2021 16:41
  
  All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star Maxwell Jacob Friedman had some, well, less than kind words when referring to what the City of Rochester has to offer.
  
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• Petito's dad: Give same attention to all missing people

  29-09-2021 16:08
  
  Petito's parents and stepparents spoke to reporters at a news conference.
  
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• National survey: More than half of schools consider bus driver shortage 'severe' or 'desperate'

  29-09-2021 14:55
  
  The survey was conducted by the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT), the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS), and the National School Transportation
  
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• First Alert Weather: Fair weather Wednesday with some showers Thursday morning

  29-09-2021 13:32
  
  We'll see a chilly morning make way for some nice fall weather, but we do have some rain to talk about.
  
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• Rochester Police: Man found stabbed to death on Zoo Road

  29-09-2021 13:20
  
  Police went to the area of Zoo Road and Lakeshore Boulevard shortly before 1 a.m.
  
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• Good Question: Got any advice for shopping during shipping backlog?

  29-09-2021 12:26
  
  It's not even October but there's a lot of talk now about getting your holiday shopping done early. Way early.
  
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• The surreal and strange work of 'Salut'

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Bradd Young, aka Salut, makes the leap to full-time artist.After graduating from art school and spending five years honing his artistic style while paying the bills as a restaurant host, Bradd Young has reached a milestone that many artists never hit: he’s making a living making art. “I was kind of forced into it,” he says, jokingly.…
  
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• Rochester’s first meadery finds a home at the Hungerford

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  The first meadery in Monroe County has found a home at Seed and Stone in the Hungerford Building.Bill Bly, an owner of Seed and Stone Cidery in the Hungerford Building, balks at trends and his beverages show it. At a time when breweries were popping up around Rochester, Bly opened an urban cidery, the first in Monroe County.…
  
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• Rochester school board to get new blood

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  There are four candidates for three open seats, but one of those candidates is not actively campaigning, leaving the race all but settled.When city voters head to the polls in November, they’ll find a ballot for a school board race that conventional wisdom suggests is all but settled. There are four candidates for three open seats, but one of those candidates is on a minor party line and, after suspending his campaign upon losing the Democratic primary, has not been a force in the contest.
  
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• Primary winners try to lock in Council seats

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  In this year’s City Council elections, 11 candidates are battling it out for one of the five seats that are up for grabs.In this year’s City Council elections, 11 candidates are battling it out for five open seats. Typically, primary elections function as the general election for City Council, but this year is a little different.…
  
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• New Horizons celebrates 30 years of making music with Rochester seniors

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  What started as a local music group for senior citizens has grown into a vast nonprofit network of 10,000 participants in more than 230 ensembles. When Roy Ernst, an Eastman School of Music professor, set out in 1991 to form a band of senior citizens from around Rochester with little to no musical experience, he wasn’t looking to change the world. He wanted to give people whom he saw as being stuck in the past, disconnected to their present and its future, a chance to improve their lives b
  
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• Negus Irap presents his hip-hop calling card with 'My Name Is Guss"

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Corey Waterman — aka Negus Irap — showcases a whip-smart wit and untiring flow on his street-wise album, "My Name Is Guss."I first heard rapper Corey Waterman, aka Negus Irap, in the music video for “Cereal,” a kind of novelty hip-hop song by Redbeard Samurai about the perennial breakfast food staple. Of the three emcees featured, it was Waterman who stole the show with his irreverent, almost punkish delivery and ability to spit bars with a combination of smooth and sass.
  
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• Monroe County pays millions to out-of-county community colleges

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Every year, hundreds of county residents head to community college elsewhere, as do our tax dollars, under a system known as "chargebacks."Hundreds of students from Monroe County headed off to community colleges outside the county this month — and with them went millions in county tax dollars. Under a state law that dates back nearly 70 years, fees known as “chargebacks” are imposed on counties when their residents attend a community college outside their borders.…
  
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• Monroe County Legislature could go either way. Here are the races to watch.

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  All 29 seats in the Monroe County Legislature up for grabs in November, giving voters a chance to influence the makeup of county government.With all 29 seats in the Monroe County Legislature up for grabs in November, voters have a chance to influence the makeup of a county government that has been plagued by infighting and bitter partisanship for the better part of 18 months. The dysfunction began shortly after Adam Bello was elected in 2019 as the first Democratic county executive in 32 years,
  
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• Cammy Enaharo searches for ‘Real Love’ with new single

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Originally written for Gold Koa, "Real Love" features singer-songwriter Cammy Enaharo’s vivid storytelling and rich vocal tone.Cammy Enaharo is a local singer-songwriter and guitarist for several musical projects including Gold Koa, Ben Morey & the Eyes and Pleistocene. Following her superb effort with Dessert in 2019, Enaharo gave listeners a taste of the upcoming EP “Hard to Look At” in September.…
  
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• Black, Armed, and Aware

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  The growth of groups like the Rochester African American Firearms Association mirrors a surge in gun sales to Black Americans.Paul Adell stood in the shooting stall wearing earmuffs atop his Chicago Bulls baseball cap. He fired a Canik TP9 Elite Combat pistol a half-dozen times, hitting a target 10 feet away with almost surgical precision.…
  
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• As opioid epidemic rages on, supervised injection sites still at a stalemate

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Supervised injection sites were at one time seemingly coming to New York. As the opioid epidemic rages on, the prospect is at a standstill.Often overlooked during the pandemic has been the nation’s other health crisis: the opioid epidemic. But more than 95,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in February, according to the latest federal data available, eclipsing the toll from any year since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s.…
  
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• Aaron Lipp has 'Nothing to Lose'

  29-09-2021 11:00 via rochestercitynewspaper.com
  
  Meet the musical chameleon at the forefront of the Finger Lakes roots scene.The road to musician Aaron Lipp’s home in Naples already felt remote and rural before it turned to dirt and narrowed to a single lane under a thick canopy of trees. His house, a two-story number he began building from the ground up six years ago that doubles as a recording studio called Temple Cabin, was hard to spot on its perch on a steep hill in the middle of a forest.…
  
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• Rochester Police investigating death along Zoo Road

  29-09-2021 10:55
  
  While details are limited, we can tell you about a mile-long stretch of Zoo Road, near Durand Lake is blocked off, so is Lakeshore Boulevard.
  
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• Sweden Town Supervisor: Feedbacks about 50-50 regarding opting out of recreational marijuana sales

  29-09-2021 05:43
  
  The Town of Sweden started airing out the issue of allowing marijuana sales in local communities Tuesday night, with a public hearing examining the pros and cons of “opting out,” when the state legalizes pot.
  
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• Town of Sweden holds public meeting on opting out of recreational marijuana sales

  29-09-2021 05:25
  
  The Town of Sweden started airing out the issue of allowing marijuana sales in local communities Tuesday night, with a public hearing examining the pros and cons of “opting out,” when the state legalizes pot.
  
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• Experts warn inhaling hydrogen peroxide for COVID-19 is dangerous

  29-09-2021 05:15
  
  A dangerous at-home treatment for COVID-19 is going around social media.
  
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• Despite COVID numbers, schools still remain one of the safest places for students

  29-09-2021 05:11
  
  Parents can now keep track of how many people at their child's school currently has COIVD-19.
  
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• On National Voter Registration Day, Harris encourages all eligible Americans to register to vote

  29-09-2021 02:51
  
  Sept. 28 is National Voter Registration Day and Vice President Kamala Harris visited a registration drive at George Mason University.
  
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• City of Rochester unveils Iroquois Creation Story Mural at Floreano Convention Center

  29-09-2021 02:18
  
  The City of Rochester unveiled a mural at the Floreano Convention Center on Tuesday.
  
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• Haunted History Trail of New York State adds ghostly getaway at Mount Morris B&B

  29-09-2021 01:49
  
  The spooky season is coming, so who's up for spending the night with a ghost or two?
  
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• New deal with workers could raise National Grid bills by next year

  29-09-2021 01:23
  
  If you get your power from the National Grid, you could be seeing a bigger bill in the near future.
  
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• Edison Tech students get hands-on experience in the trucking industry amid driver shortage

  29-09-2021 00:57
  
  Edison Career & Technology High School is reinventing the classic field trip and is showing students what it’s like to work in diesel mechanics with a three-day event for them to get a hands-on experience.
  
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• CDC adds people with risky jobs to COVID booster list

  29-09-2021 00:52
  
  Today the CDC released a list of occupations that are considered at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure.
  
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• Feds release new video of Rochester man charged in January 6 US Capitol attack

  29-09-2021 00:39
  
  News10NBC has a new video to show you of the only local man charged in the assault on the U.S. Capitol last January 6th.
  
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• SUNY schools nearing 100% vaccination compliance

  29-09-2021 00:28
  
  There was another vaccine deadline Monday. On-campus SUNY students needed to prove they're vaccinated.
  
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• Nursing homes/assisted living facilities hit hardest so far by vaccine mandate

  29-09-2021 00:15
  
  As New York State’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers goes into effect, initial reports indicate it's hitting nursing homes and assisted living centers the hardest.
  
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• Petito family launch 'Gabby Petito Foundation'

  29-09-2021 00:05
  
  The family of the New York woman found killed in Wyoming announced the formation of the Gabby Petito Foundation.
  
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