Groups still wanting to rent an igloo at the ROC Holiday Village may be disappointed unless they’re looking for time on New Year’s Eve. The downtown festival site, now in its second year, provides a mix of entertainment, food, drink, ...

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Where Rochester’s downtown once featured four department stores and two grocery stores, now there are none. A quarter century after the last department store closed, in the places where all of Rochester once shopped, there’s a car museum, a large ...

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Roc Holiday Village, a new event sponsored by the City of Rochester and Five Star Bank kicks off Saturday afternoon. Opening ceremonies begin after the 5 p.m. lighting of the Liberty Pole and a parade from the pole to Martin ...

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