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Each year, the United Way of Olmsted County partners with RPS — and other districts across the county — to provide more than 2,000 students with backpacks, notebooks, pencils, and other necessary supplies for the school year.
Plans brought before the council call for converting three adjacent residential lots along the west side of 14th Avenue Southwest into a 15-unit multi-family housing development with a shared courtyard.
The Rochester City Council voted Monday night to table a recommendation from the Heritage Preservation Commission that would designate a portion of the downtown a commercial historic district.
The City of Rochester’s new community development department will host a pair of open houses this week for properties affected by proposed Transit-Oriented Development and Infill-Redevelopment (R2x) zoning policies.
Your guide to the fourth annual ROCKchester music festival.
Kamau Wilkins hopes a new program will create opportunities for young athletes to improve their skills, on and off the court.
Rochester Public Schools is among six districts statewide that will benefit from a MnDOT grant promoting Safe Routes to Schools.
The iambic rhythms of William Shakespeare’s work will abandon the page for the west half of Peace Plaza this Saturday, as the Rochester Shakespeare Festival takes the space over from noon to 6 p.m.
As head of the RDA, Masek will be responsible for a number of events, such as Thursday Downtown and SocialICE, as well as other downtown-focused initiatives.
Learning a new language es difícil, but hanging onto it can present an even greater challenge. Fortunately, a small but burgeoning scene of language exchanges in Rochester is helping locals hone their multilingualism.
Wednesday made for a good night to turn on the television, with two local talents advancing to the finals of their respective shows.
Rochester’s geek flag will fly at full mast this summer, as three businesses up their game in an attempt to capture a growing number of dollars in the nostalgia entertainment industry.
The developer, California-based EKN Development Group, plans to demolish the existing auto garage at the site, 1102 Second Street Southwest, and replace it with a five-story structure with two levels of underground parking.
The clinic announced Tuesday its plans to add a new four-story, 64,000-square-foot research building in downtown Rochester. The building will be located just north of Mayo Clinic's Opus Building, which is situated on the corner of Fourth Street Southwest and Fourth Avenue Southwest.
The school district’s plan to build a new middle school on the outskirts of town was met with some hesitancy at this week’s council study session.
Earlier this spring, Norton used the more traditional powers of the mayor’s office, the bully pulpit, to convene a pair of town-hall style meetings on homelessness. A number of volunteer groups have formed since those meetings, each addressing a different aspect of homelessness.
If you follow the newsy side of Rochester Facebook, you may have come across some conversation about a new installation of public furniture downtown.
Over the past three decades, Mayo has worked with the Midwest Peregrine Society to help restore the falcon’s presence in the region. A total of 57 falcons have fledged from Mayo since the program began.
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Shari Mukherjee, a self-taught chef from Rochester, has been selected to appear on season 10 of “MasterChef,” the FOX reality show hosted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
