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Rochester Public Schools will not implement planned changes to teachers’ annual pay cycle in the wake of widespread criticism of the strategy.
On Tuesday, the Rochester School Board voted to suspend the search process and offer the position to interim Superintendent Kent Pekel.
On his campaign website, Noser describes the upcoming election as a “a choice between organic, local leadership that will listen to all citizens and partisan elites who act like they know best.”
Karen MacLaughlin, a former prosecutor who now serves on the Rochester School Board, has announced a run for Olmsted County Attorney.
The Rochester Republican put away the speculation on Monday, telling reporters her intention is to run for the new Minnesota Senate 24 seat.
Rochester Public Schools says it will work with the teachers’ union to retool a previously-announced change to its employee pay schedule after the initial plan was met with backlash from educators.
Minnesota’s redrawn legislative maps are out — and for Rochester area voters, that means some notable changes to the ballot this November.
First District Rep. Jim Hagedorn died Thursday night following a two-year battle with kidney cancer, his wife announced Friday.
On Wednesday, the city announced Karen Lemke as the new director of the library. Lemke has headed up communications for RPL since 2015.
Mayo Clinic announced this week it will bump employee pay raises up to 4 percent in 2022, up from the 2 percent raises introduced earlier this year.
Rabinowitz’s responsibilities will include overseeing the popular Down by the Riverside concert series, along with other music programming such as the Global Music Series and forWARD neighborhood concerts.
Interim Superintendent Kent Pekel tweeted Friday that the district is “actively looking at criteria for making masks recommended but optional” at RPS.
In the wake of the police killing of Amir Locke in Minneapolis, the Rochester Branch of the NAACP is calling on local law enforcement agencies to suspend the use of no-knock search warrants.
The plan calls for using $9.3 million in federal Covid-19 funding and $4.3 million from the district’s reserve fund to cover much of the shortfall. The remaining $7 million gap will come from budget cuts.
Rochester Parks and Recreation is expanding its seasonal staff to help cut down on invasive plants, though two-legged creatures need not apply.
The indoor mask requirement had been in effect since Jan. 16 under an emergency order from Mayor Kim Norton.
Rochester Parks and Recreation will continue work this spring to curb the area’s resident geese population, the city said Friday.
Minnetonka-based Nautical Bowls plans to add two new locations in Rochester, according to co-founder Rachel Amundson. The goal is to have both spots open by this summer.
There will be at least two open seats on the Olmsted County Board this election cycle.
After 58 years of continuous basketball bounces and shoe squeaks, the Rochester YMCA gyms stand on the edge of permanent silence. That silence would have been unimaginable in 1964, when the location opened.
