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Downtown’s Hotel Cadillac. Mt. Hope Cemetery’s Old Chapel. The former Willard State Hospital campus encompassing 400 acres on the shores of Seneca Lake.

All are on the Landmark Society of Western New York’s Five to Revive list released Wednesday.

The list has been a yearly occurrence since 2013. Often it highlights properties known, and in dire need of saving. But it also has listed everyday, taken for granted things like the neighborhood hardware store, the front porch and this year, the city’s tree canopy.

And sometimes – like this year – it puts the spotlight on a lesser-known hideaway.

Other news you should know about:

 

What you recently missed on Connections

The future of a landfill in Seneca Falls is causing a debate within the community. The Seneca Meadows landfill is the largest landfill in New York state. It's slated to close in 2025, but its parent company, Waste Connections, has requested an extension through 2040. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is offering the public the opportunity to comment on the issue through Friday. Opponents of the extension compare the issue to a "David vs Goliath" fight, saying the landfill violates odor regulations, among other safety concerns. Waste Connections representatives say that's not true.

Also: More on the Landmark Society of Western New York's "Five to Revive." The annual list includes five historic properties and resources selected for rehabilitation. The goal is to uplift the neighborhoods and communities that surround them through that revitalization. Previous years' lists included the Inner Loop North project, St. Michael's Church, and the front porch.

Doug Curry looks back at the four decades during which he and Scott Wallace have created their ultra-cool soul, R&B and blues soundtrack, and finds one true explanation as to how it happened.

“Accidents based on things,” Curry says, “that unintentionally have been preparation.”

This six-hour-long accident opens each Friday at 6 p.m. on WRUR-FM (88.5) with Wallace and his show “Rejuvenation,” three hours of soul and R&B. Curry follows from 9 p.m. to midnight with “Blacks and Blues,” three hours of blues.

Forty years. That’s call for a party Saturday at The Little Theatre. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with music by the Rochester band Sons of Monk, followed by a 7:30 p.m. showing of the 1975 Motown-driven, coming-of-age flick “Cooley High.”

And after the film, Curry and Wallace will take your questions about the film, the music they love – and, if Curry has his way, maybe a baseball question or two.

WXXI Arts & Life editor Jeff Spevak has more of his conversation with the two iconic local music hosts in this week’s Across the Universe column.

National Headlines

 

Mung bean omelet, anyone? Sky high egg prices crack open market for alternatives

Eggs have roughly tripled in price in the last few years. Now a raft of competitors are hoping to lure Americans away from their beloved breakfast food.


Rescue crews start a new search for actor Julian Sands after recovering another hiker

Sands, the 65-year-old star of A Room with a View, disappeared while hiking in Southern California. After 13 days, authorities are resuming a search "by air only" amid weather warnings.


New 'Latino' and 'Middle Eastern or North African' checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms

The Biden administration is proposing that the U.S. census and federal surveys change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African."


The U.S. economy ended 2022 on a high note. This year is looking different

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9% in the final three months of last year — a surprisingly strong finish. But growth is expected to slow in 2023, and possibly even reverse.


Why inventing a vaccine for AIDS is tougher than for COVID

The 4-decades long effort to create an AIDS vaccine suffered a blow with news that a vaccine in a late stage trial was discontinued because results showed it to be ineffective. What are the obstacles?


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