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Things About Living in Rochester That Only Locals Understand

No matter where you live, there are always going to be certain things that only the people who live there will 100% ...
Post-Bulletin

Black Swan Living bought Rochester's Georgetowne Home for $20.3 million

ROCHESTER — Rochester’s Black Swan Living recently paid $20.3 million to add Georgetowne Homes with 132 townhome units to its local housing portfolio. Black Swan Living, led by Nick and Dr. Elaine ...
Yahoo

Living outside in Rochester brings danger, even in the summer. Especially for women.

Rob Bell, Democrat and Chronicle reporter: Patricia Ferrin woke up in a gazebo to smoke one June morning. The sun was covered by a thick haze when she peered into the sky from The Vineyard, a homeless ...
Post-Bulletin

State report: Two Rochester assisted living employees wrapped chains around residents' wrists, filmed them

ROCHESTER — Two staff members at a Rochester senior living facility were found to have "emotionally abused" two residents and violated their privacy rights, a state investigation concluded. The report ...
Foster's Daily Democrat

Rochester looks to ban living in RVs: Advocates for homeless aren't happy

ROCHESTER — City officials are working on an ordinance change to prohibit people from living in campers, including on private property. Amy Malone, a former Rochester city councilor who last year led ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Rediscovering Rochester: Living Like a Tourist Again

I recently finished up “finals” week of my second semester at RIT. I remember how challenging the first semester was — and I’m sure it felt the same for many first-year students, especially ...
inforum

Rochester's whites-only racial covenants covered the living and the dead

With the help of optical character recognition, a Rochester group's effort to map the use of racial housing covenants to exclude Blacks is being energized. A 1952 contract for the sale of a cemetery ...