James Brown
WXXI News reporterJames Brown is a reporter with WXXI News. James previously spent a decade in marketing communications, while freelance writing for CITY Newspaper. While at CITY, his reporting focused primarily on arts and entertainment.
James cut his teeth in journalism as an associate producer and weekend assignment editor at WHEC-TV.
A Rochester native and an East High School graduate, James earned a bachelor of communications degree from Niagara University, where he won awards for his poetry and resurrected the school’s radio station.
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In the Rochester area, accommodations for those who are deaf or hard of hearing are more common than in many other parts of the country. -
Pastor Hanson Drysdale said that the Jefferson Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church services are continuing via Zoom. Between the extensive damage and expected wait time for their insurance claim, Drysdale said it’ll take least two years to either rebuild or replace the landmark. -
Bo Wright, president of the Monroe County Council of School Superintendents, said many districts are missing a chunk of their staff due to COVID-19 cases. -
Sabrina LaMar, who became Monroe County Legislature president Monday, is the last elected member in the Black and Asian Caucus, a splinter group of Monroe County Democrats who voted with Republicans for much of the last two years. All of their districts are in the city of Rochester. That alliance formed a vetoproof supermajority in the Legislature. -
After attending Gov. Kathy Hochul’s COVID-19 briefing at SUNY Rochester Educational Opportunity Center downtown, Evans said he spent part of his day on a daunting task: speaking to the family of a slain 14-year-old. -
Celebration will be shelved for the second year in a row -
The village of Newark expects to spent $10 million in state funds on making its downtown “compact, walkable, well defined and concentrated area that the village aims to make the heartbeat of a lively world class village.” Projects are expected to begin in 2023. -
The Centers for Disease Control offered guidance Monday that people who have COVID-19 and no symptoms can return to work after 5 days of isolation instead of 10. New York Governor Kathy Hochul made the same determination on the same day. -
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says that as the community rate of COVID-19 infection rises, so do the number of cases inside the jail. As of Monday, there were 87 positive cases inside the jail out of a total jail population of 701. -
As of February, there were 76 business improvement districts in New York City, stretching across all five boroughs. There are 70 such districts in California. Longtime Rochester Downtown Development Corp. leader Heidi Zimmer-Meyer said there are at least 2,000 around the world going by different names. The City Council is expected to consider bringing them to Rochester in the new year.
