High Falls News

In some lines, you simply don't put all the bigwigs in one room. Think presidents and vice presidents, CEOs and stockbrokers.

One Memorial Day in the recent past, my husband and I went to High Falls to watch the laser show and fireworks display.

Marlboro resident and professional dance instructor Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios, and his student, High Falls resident Dorrie Boice, won second place in the Pro/Am division of the American Lindy Hop Championships in Stamford, Conn., on Oct 24.

There is no band I know of in the Hudson Valley that puts more passion into every aspect of its non-musical undertakings than The Trapps.

The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival has changed its name to 360|365 and will start to feature year-round programming that promotes emerging filmmakers.

Revival of Rochester's High Falls district is taking another blow with the owner of the popular Triphammer Grill announcing the restaurant would close at the end of November.

'On the Record' features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

Being a resident of Rochester for over 30 years and raising two daughters here, I find Rochester, as well as NY State to be a wonderful place to live .

The cave at the Widow Jane Mine on Route 213 in Rosendale will host an 'Organic Rock Concert' Saturday, to benefit the Century House Historical Society.

Shop Talk is a weekly column featuring locally owned and operated businesses. This week, we talk to Don Dales of Fallsview Studio in Hobart.

Freshman trotters will take center stage on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Balmoral Park as a pair of American-National Stakes share top billing on the 11-race program which begins at 7:20 p.m. . A field of 10 diagonally gaited colts will line up behind the gate for the sixth race with a purse of $106,000 on the line.

Rochester's Coming Home celebration, the highlight of the city's yearlong 175th anniversary, kicked off this week and runs through Oct.

Mickey Breitenstein says he's been trying to play it cool, what with his first narrative film, Stooge, set to play the Woodstock Film Festival next week.

KERHONKSON - Visitors can celebrate the harvest with the Rondout Valley Growers Association at its seventh annual Harvest Dinner and Square Dance at 5 p.m. Oct.

Karl Wessendorf reclined in a lawn chair, his back turned to the traffic that cruised down East Avenue Friday afternoon.

When it came time to downsize from the Irondequoit home where they raised their three children, Shirley and John Thomson couldn't imagine living anywhere other than the heart of the city.

Small, quirky towns around the country make great weekend trips. New York: Lake Placid Set in New York's Adirondack Mountains, Lake Placid is almost cloyingly beautiful - the kind of place that makes you angry that other people get to live here year-round. In the fall, the hills rising above the twin lakes - Placid and Mirror - are blanketed with ...

Tucked within the Shawangunk Mountains, the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair will feature one-of-a-kind artwork from a multitude of vendors.

Move comes with financial help from the state. Governor David Paterson was in Rochester to make the announcement.

The Finger Lakes wine region home to more than just world-class rieslings and gewurztraminers as well as some stunning cabernet francs.