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With anti-vaxers in mind, Pruitt amends “Abating the Wave Machine”
[8/28/21 Liberty Pole Way. Rally against vaccine mandates. At-large City Council candidate, Marcus...
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Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church teams up with Brighton Food Cupboard at the Farmer’s Market.
Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church; 1200 South Winton Road; Rochester, NY 14618; Food Cupboard...
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Two of the missing 19 timepieces from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are found.
[The found timepieces. Provided by Barry Culhane] In search of the missing 19 granite timepieces...
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Remembering 9/11 at Monroe Community College, Highland Park and the War Memorial
[9/11/21 American flag at the Twentieth Annual Remembrance Ceremony at the Brighton campus of...
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Appellate court affirms that WHEC firing of Jeremy Kappell over racist slur was proper. Did his legal team read Talker’s article?
[Jeremy Kappell in an apology video he placed on Facebook Facebook] Today, in “Appellate...
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Is my personal pandemic almost over?
[4/7/21 David Kramer, now double vaccinated, at the Dome Arena in Henrietta wearing two VACCINATE...
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Daniel Prude’s Law is overdue and will work
[6/13/20. (l-r) Chennel Anderson, Frederick Douglass and Kelly Linn Kreider. Olivia Kim’s statue...
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Illegal and unethical dumping next to abandoned farm at the Highland Crossing with Christine Platt
[Christine Platt at the recently dumped wood debris. Photo: David Kramer 3/21/21 see Community in...
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Police Use of Pepper Spray on Child Reflects a Communal Failure
The Public Safety Building on Exchange Street, 5/30/20 [Photo: David Kramer from A Black Lives...
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Assault on Capitol is not about Black Lives Matter
David Kramer at the 5/31/20 Black Lives Matter rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park...
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(Un) Writing an old wrong in Brighton’s Meadowbrook neighborhood and a look back at B.H.S. in the late 70’s and early 80’s
Antlers Road in Meadowbrook, 9/27/20 [Photo: David Kramer] Last September, my mother walked a few...
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Hundreds receive rapid covid-19 testing at Temple B’rith Kodesh in Brighton
Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave [Photos: David Kramer 12/17] Earlier today, when at...
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I Have A Proposal for Barack Obama
Photos provided by Evalyn Gleason (in green) from her meeting with President Obama at Magnolia’s...
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What’s Wrong With Mattel’s New Susan B. Anthony Doll?
Deborah Lindenau with Susan B (Marjorie Goldman) at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum &...
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Only Parents Can Stop Children’s Addiction to Social Media
(left) daughter Audrey Boyce; (right) mother Leslie Kramer at the Strong International Museum of...
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More from Nancy O’Donnell Hale on Nathaniel Rochester: “Defaced, erased, should statue be replaced?”
6/26/20, Mt. Hope Cemetery. Nancy O’Donnell Hale at the gravesite of Nathaniel Rochester...
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Introductions
[Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1981. Caption: Dave Kramer of Brighton concentrates on his next...
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Rachel’s Rebel Roots
RAB with FDR in Washington Square Park 6/16/16 I went to Washington Square Park to hear why Rachel...
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Che of The Town: Interviews (1-107)
You first met Che in Rochester works for actor Che Holloway, an impromptu interview and amble...
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The Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Joseph Biden
Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 32 have stopped in Rochester...
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Site says Brighton is best place to live in New York
Twelve Corners Memorial Park, Brighton, NY 4/5/18 [Photo: David Kramer] Recently, the Rochester...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 1995 “Billy Pilgrim” pilgrimage to the Mt. Hope grave of Edward R. Crone Jr, Brighton High School ’41
Provided by Rosemary Lloyd. Signed copy of the 25th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five by...
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“Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story:” New and Improved
The Wells-Brown Room, Rush Rhees library, the University of Rochester. Just SOME of Crane’s books...
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Why I voted for Adam Bello and a trip down Talker political memory lane, 2015 – 2021
Adam Bello at the 2019 Labor Day Parade. [Photo: David Kramer] SEE ALL PHOTOS 2015 – 2021...
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Dr. Joseph Roby could not save Lenore Engel, 11, victim of the 1918 pandemic buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery
Growing up on 39 Wilkins Street near Joseph Avenue in a German, possibly Jewish, family, Lenore...
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When Washington Square Park felt like Tiananmen Square
The bus stop on Court Street [Photo: David Kramer, 9/4/20] Last Friday, September the 4th, I heard...
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In search of the missing 19 granite timepieces at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1973 – September 11th, 2001
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park. The area that contained the missing last 19 granite...
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Bill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s sixth birthday with “Human News”
[Lux Lounge at 666 South Avenue, Photo: David Kramer, 9/20/21, see see Impromptu poetry slam at...
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