The Rochester-area version was the Blue Gardenia restaurant. T he 1981 slaying of mob figure John Fiorino, which occurred outside the Blue Gardenia, gave the Irondequoit restaurant a “Mafia hangout” ...

I covered the birth of twin calves and a chicken house fire within the course of a few days almost 45 years ago. I did not know beforehand how unusual was the first nor how malodorous was the second.