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The animals in a barn at 193 Bloomingdale Road in Alabama were evacuated safely this morning during a fire.
No people were injured either.
Alabam...
Le Roy soccer players at all levels gather to celebrate the grand opening of the multipurpose field Saturday night. Photo by Brian Quinn
It was time to play some soccer on the new, $7.36 million multipurpose field and Le Roy's teams went a perfect 4-0. The Le Roy/Caledonia-Mumford Rivals varsity and junior varsity boys' teams and Knights girls varsity...
A typical Sunday in the '60s was very different from our Sundays today.
If you needed something for dinner on a Sunday, usually only one store was open. If I remember correctly, it was Lambert's corner grocery store on Bank and North streets — today, the Northside Deli. One drugstore would be open, and it would rotate which one was open every Sunday.
<...It was 20 years ago this week that I first pulled off the Thruway and into Batavia.
A couple of weeks earlier, I started a job with a newspaper company in Fairport, and my wife and I planned to sell our home in Bakersfield and move to the Rochester area.
While living in Bakersfield, I took up a new hobby—growing roses. I really didn't want to grow i...
Residents of 400 Towers held a pet parade from the towers to Bank Street on Saturday.
Photos by Howard Owens.