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MAY 9, 2024 Vol. 20, No. 10
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Rochester officials revamp town square project
Fresh from the market
MARKET + THE GRAHAM TO BRING YEAR ROUND FARMERS MARKET TO TOWN BY NEXT SUMMER
TOP LEFT: Many dogs made their way through the Downtown Rochester Farmers Market on opening day May 4 to say hello to their favorite farmers while their owners shopped the locally grown produce, garden plants, baked goods, meats, cheeses and more. TOP RIGHT: The stand of DeMeulenaere Farms of Romeo offers eggs and honey, in addition to produce.. The market will run 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays until October at the corner of East Third and Water streets. LEFT: Downtown Rochester Farmers Market shoppers examine the plants on opening day. The market is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
BY MARY BETH ALMOND malmond@candgnews.com
ROCHESTER — Downtown Rochester will soon have a new, elevated farmers market that officials are calling Market + The Graham. After the first iteration of a reimagined version of the city’s farmers market — dubbed “The Front Porch” — was interrupted by the pandemic, Downtown Development Authority Chairman Ben Giovanelli said, the project was put on the back burner. “The original version of this project was scuttled due to COVID,” he said. “We re-booted it and started to go down a path and realized it was going to be twice as much as we thought it was going to be, so we hit the brakes — that was toward the tail end of the year last year. Planned funding from
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