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This month, Pegasus Early Music’s John Dowland Festival observes the 400th anniversary of the passing of one of England’s greatest composers. Is it odd to celebrate a great composer’s death? Not when the composer’s music still speaks so strongly after four centuries.

On Sunday afternoon, several singers and instrumentalists will perform a bouquet of Dowland’s songs ...


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Nate Salzman, a Brighton Town Board member who declared his candidacy for town supervisor at the beginning of this year, has received his party’s designation for the race.

The Brighton Democratic Committee on Wednesday chose Salzman over the longtime incumbent, Bill Moehle.

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“I am deeply honored and grateful for the confidence the committee ...


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On Dec. 3, Omar Ramos Jimenez went to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Buffalo Field Office in Batavia for what he was told would be a routine check-in, one like others over a number of years. He has yet to return home.

Ramos Jimenez, a native and citizen of Mexico, is being held at ICE’s Buffalo Service Processing Cente...


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Last year, when I heard that a former Oak Hill Country Club board president had quietly Venmoed money to a key witness in the club’s civil litigation, I had that typical reporter’s sensation: What a story!

I didn’t have the story nailed down, but the former president, Robert Sansone, stepped away from the other defendants in the lawsuit and retained his own attorney...


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I was outraged to learn that STREAM US Data Centers and their financial backer, the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, are asking for $744 million in taxpayer subsidies—that’s 3 /4 of a billion dollars—to build a monster data center at the failing STAMP mega industrial site in Genesee County. And what’s more, this data center doesn’t just want to steal our tax doll...


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