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Consolidation: Are we heading towards a New Batavia?

By Philip Anselmo
Jan 8, 2009, 4:46pm

Everybody's talking about consolidation. Will the city and town of Batavia merge into a single entity? Even more important than that: If it does, what will that mean for me and my taxes? In the hopes of shedding some light on the topic—rather than further obfuscating the issue by pandering

Before Urban Renewal: My Downtown Batavia favorites

By David Reilly
Nov 26, 2023, 3:11pm

Since 2018 I have been writing nostalgic stories for The Batavian about growing up in Batavia, New York, in the 1950s and 1960s. In some of those stories, I made mention of some of the businesses that were located in what we always called “Downtown.”

Due to “urban renewal”