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The brainchild behind Cameo at the Castle, temporarily limited to food truck service due to Covid-19, has announced plans to expand into the Rochester Athletic Club — with an updated menu and a new brand.
A message in rotation on a digital billboard, on the northern doorstep of downtown Rochester and steps away from Mayo Clinic, is currently promoting unsubstantiated anti-vaccination fears — as the world awaits the most important inoculation in at least 70 years.
The proposed expansion, first introduced in 2018 in partnership with Singapore-based Pontiac Land Group, was slated to include four floors of clinical space and a seven-story hotel.
The position was created in July, after the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to expand a pilot program from 2017 partnering social workers with police officers on certain calls.
The top officials at Olmsted County Public Health say they’re becoming more optimistic on the future of the community’s fight with Covid-19, after OCPH reported 72 new cases of the virus last week — the lowest total since the week of May 4 — and rolling averages inch closer to ‘containment’ status.
First District Rep. Jim Hagedorn is coming under fire from critics and congressional ethics experts who contend the first-term Republican violated government rules by directing more than $100,000 in public funds to a company partially owned by one of his staffers.
When children return to the classroom this fall (in districts that are offering in-person instruction), they will be going back to an environment much different than the one they left in March, when the pandemic began to take hold of every aspect of American life. Masks will cover their smiles. Social distancing will prevent them from sitting in tight circles. Remembering to wash their hands will become as important as memorizing Shakespeare.
Ryan Nolander is resigning from his position as director of Rochester Area Economic Development, Inc. (RAEDI) after two years on the job. His last day is Sept. 30.
Most undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota-Rochester will not return to campus this month as originally planned, after the university system’s Board of Regents approved a two-week delay on in-person classes and a delay on move-in dates for campus residences.
Transit operations had been relocated since March due to road construction. That work wrapped up last week.
Here is a sneak peek of some of the storylines we will be following as we head into the heat of election season.
Mayo Clinic has invested $50 million into its joint venture in the United Arab Emirates, according to a quarterly financial report released this week.
Mayo Clinic researchers leading a nationwide study into convalescent plasma therapy are signaling cautious optimism about its use for treating patients with Covid-19, even as federal health officials reportedly express concern about whether the Mayo-led plasma program is growing too fast with too little evidence about its efficacy.
For its ‘Best Places to Retire in 2020,’ Forbes touts the Med City’s ‘incredibly high’ ratio of doctors per capita along with a below-the-national-average home prices as rationale for including Rochester on the list.
City staff point to research showing that just 13 percent of pedestrians die or suffer severe injuries when struck by a vehicle traveling at 20 mph, compared to 40 percent at 30 mph and 73 percent at 40 mph.
With Covid-19 hammering the local restaurant industry, news of restaurant openings in the area have become rare. Inside Hotel Indigo, however, a Twin Cities-based restaurant has plans to do just that — taking a leap of faith to bring a self-described ‘one-of-a-kind experience’ to the downtown area.
The final tallies from Tuesday’s local primary are in, after over a thousand absentee mail-in ballots poured into the Olmsted County election office in the past two days. The ‘top twos’ from Tuesday night remain the same, meaning we know who will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Rochester’s voters narrowed the field for five local races on Tuesday, casting over 17,000 votes in the city council president primary alone. With some mail-in ballots still left to be counted, final results are not yet set in stone, but a few conclusions can be made on which candidates will appear on the ballot November 3.
Olmsted County and Rochester Area Economic Development, Inc. (RAEDI) have partnered to make $4 million in CARES Act funding available — and the time for business owners to submit their applications is almost here.
On Monday, RST announced it would add nonstop service to Denver International Airport via United Airlines. Denver becomes the fourth destination RST offers nonstop service to, in addition to international airports in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
