Residents passed Fairport's $107.2 million school budget on Tuesday.
Close to 4,000 voters cast their votes at Johanna Perrin Middle School, and the school budget passed by a vote of 2,623 votes in favor and 1,306 against, not counting absentee ballots, which were too few to sway the results.
The major new exhibit, featuring lions and more, will be officially unveiled by Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, local dignitaries and zoo officials.
The East Rochester Village Board of Trustees took a bold step on Monday by voting to borrow whatever is necessary to move the Eyer Building renovation forward.
The board voted unanimously to authorize the village to borrow up to $5.5 million in bonds to go toward the $7.6 million project to demolish the existing village office buildings that are now home to the town court, senior center, public cable TV channel, and library, and move them into the Eyer Building.
Two Monroe County politicians today announced their intent to run for State Senate less than one day after Republican Jim Alesi announced that he will not run for re-election in the 55th District.
Hoping to fill his seat are Democrat Ted O'Brien, of Irondequoit, and Republican Sean Hanna, of Mendon.
Check out this week's edition of the Fairport-East Rochester Post for these print-only exclusive stories.
In the spotlight: Meet Lucien "Lou" Morin II, a lawyer from Fairport who was honored by the New York State Bar Association for his pro bono work.
Top students: See who made the honor roll at Johanna Perrin Middle School.
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It used to be incumbent politicians were virtually impossible to pry from office, but that theatrical scene has been revised. Several incumbents, Republican and Democrat alike, have already lost their seats in state primaries this year. To say the citizens of this nation have become sheep and been overtaken by a government of wolves might be a fair claim, but the sheep have awakened and gained teeth.
