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For people who come from places where English is the last language on the candy wrapper, a taste of home in Rochester isn’t as elusive as the surrounding cornfields might suggest. A thriving bunch of of international grocery stores dot the map here, thanks to the city’s significant population of communities from around the globe.
As land downtown becomes more valuable by the day, questions have emerged concerning the future of Rochester’s first golf course and surrounding public space: how will Soldiers Field Park change as Rochester grows, and who will the changes affect most?
From the turn of the 21st Century, the outside has been trying to understand what goes on here. What’s the ‘secret sauce,’ they wonder, that makes this otherwise ordinary Midwest town anything but?
As pressure continues to mount on public officials to address the city’s housing crisis, reporter Bryan Lund digs into the roots of the problem to find out whether anything can be done to counter current trends.
It’s been a wild ride for Hauri since releasing his first single. His debut studio album Sensational debuted at No. 52 on the Billboard 200 in mid-June. Over four million people listened to his music on Spotify in the last month, and his top song “Mr. Clean” reached gold status earlier this year.
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.
“We want to empower the community to grow and to share their knowledge,” said Kim Sin, longtime advocate for the city’s Cambodian population and lead organizer of the project. “Right now, where do you go to learn about another culture’s diet?”
W.W. Mayo would be 200 this year. To commemorate the bicentennial of his birth, we set out to explore the larger-than-life legacy of the man they once called the ‘Little Doctor.’
For the past couple years, García and Fricker have been making trips to various destinations — from Puerto Rico To Mexico — and producing blogs and videos for a language-learning service they launched called Spanish and Go.
In this article, we profile four local startups that are developing exciting new medical techniques for fighting disease and improving surgical outcomes.
