More than 150 artists, businesses, services organizations and food vendors will take to the streets of Victor this year on Sept. 11 for the 34th annual Hang Around Victor Day.
Hosted by the Victor Chamber of Commerce, this year’s celebration will fill Main Street in the Village, Mead Square and The Village Hall parking lot.
The game, and the rivalry are on: The Canandaigua-Victor football game is now under way at Evans Field in Canandaigua. Victor led Canandaigua 19-0 at the half.
Check back for quarterly score updates, photos and a full recap from the field.
Reporter Julie Sherwood, Sports Writer Ron Wilson and Photographer Vasiliy Baziuk will bring you reports from the field.
Members of the School Food Independence committee held a cook-off and tasting to decide which of three healthy new dishes area schools would be offering to students this fall.
One obviously glaring fact about Saturday’s 2 p.m. opening-day football game between the Victor Blue Devils and the host Canandaigua Braves at Evans Field is that it pits head coaching brother Jim Haugh (Victor) against head coaching brother Pete Haugh from Canandaigua. However, in talking with both coaches, if all you’re talking about is the fact that this game pits brother against brother, then you’d better look again.
With the popularity of the sport of soccer combined with the eternally growing popularity of video games, and the growth of individual events such as the X-Games and other such spin-off extreme events of it’s ilk, it seems that most sports these days have seen a decline in what was once each sports steady growth.
As I sit at home writing my next column, I wonder how many other people in the Victor-Farmington community are in their homes right now working at a job. I began to ask residents if they knew people who have a “home-based business.”
