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Author-turned-portraitist Nicholson Baker debuted his portrait collection “Bear Witness to Palestine” last week with Writers & Books at Hinderland Studio in Rochester’s High Falls district. 

The collection features 14 portraits, each capturing the raw emotions of activists and victims of the war in Gaza. The collection will be on view until Oct. 18.

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Elders & Allies to Free the People Roc believes housing justice is racial justice. We join Citizen Action in calling on the legislature and County Executive Bello to address the housing crisis.

The county’s rental assistance programs are a tangled web, causing confusion, discouragement, shame, and, ultimately, failure to obtain adequate housing.

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I have bad news for New Yorkers who are already paying the fifth highest residential electricity prices in the nation—your bill is going up, and it has nothing to do with the utilities. It’s because leaders in Albany decided they want us to pay ...


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United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes formally assumed leadership of the local Imagination Library in April.

In February 2022, Katrina Gordon’s premature twin daughters were in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Gordon could not yet hold them.

“There were so many things coming at you; it was a very overwhelming situation,” she...


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A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security, ruling that its warning notice to Rochester resident David Streever likely violated his First Amendment right to free speech.

In his


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