For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
Draper Middle School students, from left, McKenzie Kane, Taylor Horton, Ronnie Zadrozny, Nick Esposito, Paul Egan and Amanda Welch unearth Friday morning the chicken mummies they buried in November in the Rotterdam school's courtyard as they learned about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques.