Voters in Faiport approved their $110 million budget for the 2013-14 school year.
The budget passed by 1,417 votes yes to 734 no. It increases spending by 3 percent and raises the tax levy 3.2 percent.
Summer programs at the local zoo begin Saturday, May 25.
Testimony from two of Megan Merkel's passengers continued Tuesday in the trial involving the drivers who allegedly caused the death of Fairport teacher Heather Boyum.
There are two juries set to decide the case of Megan Merkel of Ontario, Wayne County and Mark Scerbo of Penfield, who both face charges including vehicular manslaughter and DWI after the crash on Route 250 in Penfield last July.
Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced his plan to extend tax treatment afforded to film producers and music publishers to investors in live theatre. Schumer will introduce the STAGE Act of 2013, which aims to amend the Federal Tax Code and to promote financing in the often prohibitively risky enterprise of commercial stage production. Schumer noted that there are dozens of theatres throughout Upstate New York, like Proctors in Schenectady, Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, Stanley Theatre in Utica and Broome County Forum Theatre that put on Broadway shows and live productions, and this bill would benefit the production companies that bring their shows to those theatres.
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Now that the Internal Revenue Service has proven that it is willing to play politics, maybe even taking its audit marching orders straight from the White House, it's high time to abolish this unnecessary evil.
