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The Monroe County Legislature is considering a proposal that sponsors say would strengthen and modernize county laws regulating pawn shops and similar businesses, the Auditorium Theatre is now known as the "West Herr Auditorium Theatre and Performing Arts Center,” and the New York State Fair season begins today near Syracuse and there are some new features this year.

The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative is changing its public goals after nearly a decade of work, Rochester’s last remaining cobblestone building may be demolished to make way for a parking lot, and relief workers continue to pour into Hawaii after a deadly wildfire ravaged parts of Maui.

A demolition hearing has been set for a blighted and barricaded building in downtown Rochester, NBA championship basketball player and Rochester native Thomas Bryant held his annual free basketball camp over the weekend at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester, and repair work continues in Irondequoit where a car fell into a sinkhole a week and a half ago.

The first legal cannabis shop in Rochester is slated to open its doors this week; a civil rights lawyer representing survivors and families of the Buffalo mass shooting last year reacts to last weekend’s racist shooting in Florida; and there are some corporate changes in the works for the owners of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres.

Four agencies have collaborated on a local effort to get more people of color with developmental disabilities to live independently; the top leader at Lollypop Farm says discussions are ongoing among that organization and other groups about the need to address the impending loss of a local emergency veterinary practice; and Monroe County is offering all suburban school districts an opportunity to join the county’s BusPatrol program.

More job opportunities in the cannabis industry are expected to emerge, Foodlink’s Curbside Market is celebrating ten years of bringing fresh and affordable food to Rochester neighborhoods, and Regina Spektor plays a solo show tomorrow night at Rochester’s Kodak Center.

The Rochester Police Department says cars and property are safer when there is a crowd in well-lit areas, new owners of CityGate plaza are looking to restart the long-stalled development that is home to Costco on Rochester’s southside, and the Syracuse Catholic Diocese will pay 100-million dollars to hundreds of survivors of sexual abuse.

Dozens of people who are temporarily housed at a local motel will need a new place to live, a disease outbreak late last month forced Rochester Animal Services to close its Verona Street shelter to the public, and teachers are debating how to prepare for an increase in students using artificial intelligence to write their papers or perform their tasks.

The Rochester Museum and Science Center is repatriating Indigenous remains that had been part if its collection, the strike is on for union nurses at Rochester General Hospital, and the New York State Department of Health is reporting an increase in COVID-19 hospital admissions.

Nurses at Rochester General Hospital have voted to authorize a two-day strike, a vessel called "the Golden Rule" will be at the Port of Rochester for the next few days to raise awareness about the growing danger of nuclear war, and the annual Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance is underway.