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PHELPS — This Ontario County village’s emerging downtown boasts a lot of offerings you might not expect out of a community of this size: a brewery, distillery, wine bar, a

PHELPS — It was not the kind of text Don and JoEllen Miller were expecting to receive on Christmas morning. Instead of holiday wishes, it was a friend, informing them that part of their Waterside Wine Bar on Main Street in Phelps was damaged. A retaining wall connected to the building fell into Flint Creek, and the wall took a corner of the building foundation with it. “I was like, ‘Oh, Lord,’” said Don by phone with his wife on Sunday morning. “It is crazy. But yo...

PHELPS — The village has condemned the building housing the Waterside Wine Bar. While that doesn’t mean the Main Street building must be razed, it does mean it cannot be occupied until repairs can be made. On Christmas day, a retaining wall connected to the building fell into Flint Creek, taking a portion of the building foundation on the northeast corner with it. It also took a chunk of the parking lot into the creek, where a waterfall is nearby. It’s unclear at this point why t...