By Lainey Porter The United States wastes 108 billion pounds of food each year. According to Feeding America, this equates to 130 billion meals wasted. In a nation with this degree of food waste it could be assumed the food insecurity levels… Read More ›
By: Portia Wojton Once a vacant lot beside I-490, 490 Farmers has now transformed the area into a community garden. Since its start up, the site has grown to 78 garden plots, along with a free food stand, a community… Read More ›
By Lainey Porter Recent incidents involving vandalism and racial slurs have created tension among students and faculty at SUNY Brockport. Freshman Tatum Smyth lives in Gordon Hall, one of the two dorms the vandalism took place and was frustrated to… Read More ›
Being a college student is hard. It requires money management, dedication to studies and, arguably the most important, maintaining a balanced diet. Sadly, the latter is something that has found itself to be a big problem. Healthy eating in college… Read More ›
The abuse of fentanyl is a public health crisis. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug overdose deaths rose from 2019 to 2020 with 91,799 drug overdose deaths reported in 2020. Deaths involving synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) continued… Read More ›
By Eliza Gonzalez 38 dogs. 35 cats. 73 animals currently waiting for homes at Lollypop Farm in Fairport. These 73 animals represent a small fraction of a much larger problem in the U.S. According to the American Society for the… Read More ›
A community that is an ocean away from war is pulling together to send necessary medical aid to Ukraine. The Ukrainian community in Rochester has been working countless hours a week to get donations over to the war-stricken country. RocMaidan… Read More ›
By Kate McCarthy Anxiety. Stress. Essays. Deadlines. Studying. These are all too familiar for college students during finals week and SUNY Brockport students in particular are preparing for the stressful end of yet another semester. According to a 2016 study,… Read More ›
Despite efforts to silence a controversial speaker at Brockport, more than five hundred people were able to listen to him. Jalil Muntaqim spoke to the Brockport community over a zoom call on April 6. Leading up to the speech, there… Read More ›
From the time Alexis Ortiz was old enough to understand, she knew about the family rumor surrounding her grandfather – and she thinks it holds water. Ortiz, a 21-year-old Rochester resident, believes her grandfather may have been the Rochester Alphabet Killer…. Read More ›