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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