About two years ago I wrote a letter to the Daily Sentinel regarding the Erie Canal Village. I suggested the city buy back the village from the current owner, Richard
In order to move ahead with his plan to build an outdoor amphitheater at the Erie Canal Village, JGK Associates CEO Jerry Stucchi told the Rome Common Council they need to nix any existing deed restrictions that would stop construction and figure out how much the city is willing to pay to clean up the old, dilapidated buildings on the site.
There was no official project presentation to the council — that is tentatively scheduled for the next meeting, on April 24 — and there was no official legislation regarding the project. Instead, JGK Associates, the leading facilitator of the project, used the public comment portion of the meeting to discuss their ideas for the property and push back against some public backlash they have received in regards to preserving the historic nature of the Erie Canal Village.
The Rome Historical Society was originally founded in 1936 and first opened on the third floor of the Jervis Public Library on North Washington. It moved to its current location at 200 Church St. in the 1980s and reopened in 1985. The Church Street building was a former U.S. Post Office. It s halls are filled with historical artifacts from more than 300 years of Rome history, including an extensive library of old city records and hundreds of thousands of photographs.
Former Rome Area Chamber of Commerce President William Guglielmo will be posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of 1777 at the Rome Historical Society s annual dinner on Saturday, March 9, according to Historical Society officials.