Morning News Brief
Written by Dan Fischer on April 25, 2023
Derek Geib, the owner of Bourbon and Burger, Romans, and the Coffee Press, is proposing to buy two parcels in the city center mall. Parcells 11a and b used to be the Valle Jewelers location. City management had previously requested permission from City Council for a reassessment of vacant properties, and 11A and B were evaluated to be worth $60,000 each as fair market value by Lynne, Murphy & Associates, Inc. City Manager Rachel Tabelski estimated the deal could be done by July and the parcels would no longer be sitting unoccupied in the mall.
A Buffalo City School was locked down Tuesday after a gun was found in a backpack of a high school student during a routine inspection at Academy School #131 Tuesday morning. A school safety officer found the gun during the inspection and confiscated it. No staff or students were harmed. The Buffalo Police Department was immediately notified and the school was placed under lockdown. The student left school grounds and the lockdown was later lifted under the direction of Buffalo police.
ARC GLOW has a new communications manager in Mallory Diefenbach. Mallory, a native of Eden, has been living in Batavia and growing as part of the community as she worked as a reporter. Prior to moving to Batavia, she worked as a reporter for The Post-Journal in Jamestown. Together, she has a decade’s worth of writing experience and community engagement. Diefenbach has a bachelor of arts in journalism and mass communication from St. Bonaventure University, and has a double major in history. She will also be in charge of grant writing for ARC GLOW.
Rochester General Hospital staff are on strike. Several nurses picketed outside the Hospital late Tuesday afternoon. Members of the Rochester Union of Nurses and Allied Professionals said contract talks with Rochester Regional Health are moving too slowly, and claim the hospital harbors unsafe conditions. Rochester Regional Health said it’s committed to reaching an agreement with RUNAP, but some of its proposals and counterproposals have been flatly rejected without a new counterproposal response.
Police responded to Chili Avenue near Old Beahan Road around 9:20 a.m. for a report of the vehicle doing donuts in the roadway. Officers found the vehicle in a driveway and pulled in behind it, when the driver allegedly backed the vehicle over a neighboring house’s lawn, jumped a curb and struck a Gates police car on Chili Avenue. Police chased the vehicle into the city, but ended the pursuit when the driver drove through a wooden stockade fence. An officer found the vehicle flipped over at the intersection of Norton and Hollenbeck streets and said the occupants were trying to get out and flee the scene. Police took two suspects into custody. A third suspect remains at large. The 2 arrested were 22 and 14 years old.
A school in the Rochester City School District is being recognized as an Underground Railroad Site. The National Park Service selected Anna Murray-Douglass Academy School No. 12, as a new listing on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, which serves to preserve and honor the history of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, while inspiring people across the world. Frederick Douglass’ wife, Anna Murray-Douglass, played an important role in United States history, helping her husband escape slavery and sharing his dedication to the abolitionist movement. The Rochester City School District named School No. 12 after Anna Murray-Douglass in 2018.
Earlier this month, Forbes released its “Best Places To Travel In The U.S. In 2023″ and Niagara Falls, N.Y. made the list. Niagara Falls, N.Y. was submitted by Michele Herrmann, a Travel, Culinary and Lifestyle Freelance Writer and Content Creator. He recommended the aquarium, visitor center, Wine on Third and the Power Plant. Other places on the list include Phoenix, Ariz., San Francisco, Calif., Vail, Colo., St. Pete Fl., Savannah, Ga., Kansas City, Mo.
The Buffalo Bisons announced the team will host a “Nurse Appreciation Night” on May 10. The team said it has partnered with Trusted Nurse Staffing to host the night and it is in honor of the “hard work, passion and dedication of the many nurses who serve our community every day.” Nurses will be able to purchase game tickets for $10 each for themselves and their families online and at the Sahlen Field Box Office by showing a staff ID card. Trusted Nurse Staffing will also give away a free t-shirt to the first 500 nurses that visit their concourse table that night. The Bisons said there will be special in-game recognitions and the inclusion of nurses throughout the in-game entertainment.
