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Batavia ready to ask state to place $10 million bet on community's future

By Howard B. Owens
Jun 7, 2016, 10:32am

Just 10 years ago, Batavia was a city barely hanging on. Nobody could imagine, said City Manager Jason Molino, that things would have turned around enough by 2016 that Batavia could be a serious contender for a $10 million prize in a competition for downtown revitalization projects.

Genesee County Economic Development Center

Local prosthetic device company launches crowdfunding campaign

By Billie Owens
Jun 2, 2016, 1:55pm

Press release:

TenCar, a woman-owned medical devices and equipment company founded by Genesee County resident Georgann Carrubba, RN, has launched a crowdfunding campaign as the company looks to start the evaluation and initial manufacturing phase of its Choice Cap product.

Funds generated will be used to build initial evaluation units

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”