Flower City Habitat for Humanity breaks ground today (Wed) on its 239th Rochester home, the largest it’s ever built. The organization is building the 1,600 square foot home for the Abdulahi family, refugees from Somalia who spent eight years in a Kenyan refugee camp before finally being granted asylum in the United States. The […]
The Rochester Board of Education has hired the city’s new school superintendent. He’s Terry Dade, one of the four finalists introduced last month and currently assistant superintendent of the Fairfax County Schools in northern Virginia. School Board President Van White said Dade understands that change can’t be accomplished by just one person and that it […]
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says a police chase that began in Gates and ended with a crash in Brighton led to the arrest of a bank robbery suspect. They say 40-year-old Jason Rosso was wanted in Monday’s robbery of the Canandaigua National Bank Branch on Ridge Road in Greece, as well as another bank […]