Biking New York's Erie Canalway Trail (The Flint Journal)

6 August 2008, 12:55 pm

Who needs a car to explore upstate New York? Bicyclists can pedal through 400 miles of history along the Erie Canalway Trail. And it took only 200 years to build it. Workers first broke ground on the Erie Canal on July 4, 1817, carving out a 363-mile route across New York state to the Great Lakes.... read more

Tracing Those Who Sought Freedom (R News)

6 August 2008, 10:09 am

The Rochester Museum and Science Center wants to get people thinking about freedom. What would you do to get it? The museum's newest interactive exhibit, "Flight to Freedom", explores the challenging paths that runaway slaves followed to freedom and the risks abolitionists took to help them.... read more

11-year-old Arrested for Stabbing Uncle (R News)

6 August 2008, 9:26 am

Rochester Police arrested an 11-year-old boy after a stabbing in the city Tuesday night. It happened just after 10 p.m. on Thurston Road. Police say a male youth was visiting his uncle and the two got into an argument. It ended when the youth stabbed his uncle in the chest.... read more

Brain Injury Patient & Author Shares Insight (R News)

6 August 2008, 7:39 am

A nationally-known author on brain injuries visited Rochester Wednesday. Dr. Lynn Lazarus Serper wrote "Brainstorming: And The Serper Method™ Of Brain Recovery, Regrowth And Vitality". It’s a about a method she used herself to recover from a brain injury.... read more

Olympic pole vaulter Jenn Stuczynski stirs hometown pride in Fredonia (The Buffalo News)

6 August 2008, 5:22 am

FREDONIA -- It's impossible to predict if Olympics-bound Fredonia pole vaulter Jenn Stuczynski will win a medal.... read more

Pittsford-Mendon 8th-grader shoots record 6-under-par at state tourney (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

6 August 2008, 12:04 am

Gavin Hall, an eighth-grader who plays on the Pittsford Mendon golf team, shot a record 6-under-par 66 and is the first-round leader at the New York state boys' amateur championship at Oneonta Country Club in Otsego County.... read more