Articles

As legal battle over Whole Foods Plaza continues, Starbucks opens on site

• By James Brown
The first business in Brighton's long fought-over Whole Foods Plaza opened on Friday. But the legal fight is far from over.
• Tags: News, Starbucks, Monroe County, Brighton, Whole Foods, Whole Foods Plaza, Wegmans, Bill Moehle, Anthony Daniele, Brighton Grassroots, Save Monroe Avenue, Brighton’s Allens Creek Neighborhood Group, Howie Jacobson

Cuomo: 14% of New Yorkers tested have coronavirus antibodies

• By Karen DeWitt
The state administered the tests to volunteers at 40 grocery stores across New York, including the East Avenue Wegmans.
• Tags: News, coronavirus, COVID-19, antibody testing, immunity, public health, Wegmans, physical distancing

Monroe County, Rochester won’t tax paper bags

• By Gino Fanelli
A state ban on single-use plastic bags allows local governments to impose a 5-cent tax on paper bags.
• Tags: News, plastic bag ban, environment, Wegmans, Adam Bello, Lovely Warren, bag tax

Wegnesia. Wegmentia. Whatever it's called, it's a Rochester thing.

• By David Andreatta
With so many Wegmans stores around, it's easy to forget which one you're at.
• Tags: Editor's Notebook, Wegmans, Wegnesia, Wegmentia, Discomwegmanated, David Andreatta

In search of Butter Boy

The Wegmans cult has a new golden icon

• By Chris Thompson
It's no secret that Rochesterians are obsessed with Wegmans. But when our dining writer Chris learned about the phenomenon of Butter Boy through a Wegmans-worshiping meme page on Facebook, he had to find out what the fervor was all about.
• Tags: Restaurant News, Food, Butter Boy, Wegmans

Feedback 1/11

• Tags: Feedback, Whole Foods, Daniele family, Wegmans, Fake news

[UPDATED] Daniele blames Wegmans for Whole Foods delay

• By Jeremy Moule
The Brighton Town Board decided last week not to put the proposal's latest traffic analysis and environmental statement up for public comment.
• Tags: News, Whole Foods, Monroe Avenue, Monroe Avenue traffic, Daniele Family Companies, Wegmans

A modest little proposal for revitalizing downtown

• By Mary Anna Towler
Where a company has its corporate headquarters makes a statement about that company and how it views its community.
• Tags: Urban Journal, Downtown Rochester, Wegmans, Paychex, Mayor Lovely Warren, Joel Seligman

Feedback 11/18

• Tags: Feedback, Wegmans, Terrorism

Feedback 11/4

• Tags: Feedback, Rochester school district, Rochester school board, Wegmans, Best of Rochester, WXXI, Bolgen Vargas

Cover Story

New-school fuel

• By Jeremy Moule
• Tags: News, Wegmans, Anaerobic digestion, food waste, greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture, Cover Story

Feedback 5/6

• Tags: Feedback, Rochester transit center, Youth violence, Regional Transit Service, Rochester city school district, Neighborhood schools, busing, St. John Fisher College, Rudy Giuliani, Wegmans

Feedback 4/29

• Tags: Feedback, Rochester Broadway Theatre League, Downtown theater, Wegmans, Parking, Rochester school district budget, Superintendent Bolgen Vargas, Climate change

Wegmans seeks fix for East Ave. lot

• By Jeremy Moule
• Tags: News, Wegmans, Urban planning, Development, Cycling

DINING REVIEW: Better with age

• By Laura Rebecca Kenyon
• Tags: Dining Reviews, Dining, Restaurant Review, Rochester Food, Next Door, Wegmans, European Food, American, Asian

The end of antibiotics

• By Christine Carrie Fien
• Tags: News, Louise Slaughter, Science, Medicine, Wegmans, Public health, Abundance Cooperative Market, Food co-op

Teamsters reject Wegmans' contract proposal

• By Jeremy Moule
Members of Teamsters Local 118 have again rejected a contract offer from Wegmans.
• Tags: Wegmans, Teamsters Local 118, labor

Wegmans' contract conflict

• By Jeremy Moule
• Tags: News, Wegmans, labor, unions, Teamsters Local 118, retirement benefits, pensions

Week Ahead: Wegmans, Teamsters back in talks

• By Christine Carrie Fien
• Tags: Wegmans, Teamsters, labor, labor negotiations, unions, union contracts

Commissioner King says city schools have 'potential'

• By Tim Louis Macaluso
• Tags: Rochester city school district, Rochester students and teachers, Wegmans, Commissioner King, student improvement in New York

DINING REVIEW: Amore Italian Restaurant and Wine Bar

Love's labor, lost and found

• By Laura Rebecca Kenyon
• Tags: Dining Reviews, Restaurant review, Amore, Wegmans, Italian, grocery store, East Avenue

Buffalo News: Wegmans dropping health insurance for part-timers

• By Jeremy Moule
• Tags: work force, Wegmans, health care, health insurance, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, health care reform, jobs

Slideshow

CHOW HOUND: The Revelry, events and openings

Kissing the grits

• By Dayna Papaleo
• Tags: Restaurant News, Chow hound, Rochester restaurants, food news, The Revelry, Josh Miles, Southern food, upscale dining, cocktails, wines, University Avenue, farmers markets, Raj Mahal, Captain's Attic, Abyssinia, California Rollin, Wegmans, Amore, Slideshow

Cover Story

Fad or fix: longer school days

• By Tim Louis Macaluso
• Tags: News, Northeast Prep, School 9, All City High School, Wegmans, extended learning, Bolgen Vargas, Rochester city school district, the Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Afterschool Alliance, United Way, Cover Story

Cover Story

Let them eat snow

Winter farming in Rochester

• By James Leach
• Tags: Food, Farming, Agriculture, Winter, Wegmans, Organic, Cover Story