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Some of downtown Rochester’s sidewalks could get a facelift this summer, although members of the Rochester City Council said Monday the scope of the project would be smaller than what the city’s public works department originally proposed.
Out with the winter isolation blues and in with the snowshoes. Quarry Hill has resumed offering snowshoe and ski rentals as a way of encouraging area residents and visitors to maintain physical and recreational activity, while extending conventional safety measures to include Covid-19 related guidelines.
As the amount of vaccinated Olmsted County residents approaches 40,000, Public Health officials report the area’s Covid-19 case numbers have been in decline for six consecutive weeks — bringing statistics down to levels not seen since early fall, before the November case spike.
The office, to be located on the second floor of the Conley-Maass-Downs building, 14 Fourth Street Southwest, will be the tech company’s first physical location in Minnesota.
In a 6-1 vote, the Rochester City Council opted against amending its City Charter Wednesday afternoon — allowing the city’s library and park boards to retain the power they have held for 116 years.
Even as Rochester Public Schools reports its lowest enrollment since the 2015-16 school year, internal projections show that high school enrollment remained high through the pandemic and likely will continue to increase — meaning a fourth public high school in Rochester may become necessary by the middle of the decade.
The grant, announced Tuesday, comes from a $6.9 million allocation from MDH aimed at helping public health agencies with vaccine administration.
One Rochester-area entrepreneur swam with Sharks this past fall, and she has video to prove it. In a little over two week’s time, in fact, it will air on national television.
As the Minnesota Senate prepared to vote on bills aimed at limiting Gov. Tim Walz’s emergency powers, Republican State Sen. Carla Nelson took to Twitter Monday morning, calling out the governor’s education plan and lobbying for Minnesotan students to return to the classroom.
The updated figures come as the state continues a gradual transition into the phase 1B group, which includes K-12 educators and day care staff.
The Rochester-based health system finished third overall in Forbes’ 2021 list of the best large employers in the country. The report, released this week, was based on anonymous survey data from 50,000 Americans.
As vaccination rates continue to climb, Olmsted County Public Health Director Graham Briggs says he is “cautiously optimistic” outdoor events like Thursdays Downtown could start back up in the second half of 2021.
After seven months of reviewing its policy manual, the Rochester Police Department brought new language to the table Monday, providing the Rochester City Council with a “blueprint for re-envisioning” the department in a study session Monday afternoon.
The Rochester site will serve approximately 1,500 Minnesotans 65 and older in the first week of operation, according to a news release from the governor’s office. The site will be the third of its kind in Minnesota; similar programs went live in Minneapolis and Duluth last week.
As Covid-19 case numbers in our area fall to the lowest levels since mid-October, the major players in the county’s vaccination efforts announced Thursday they will join forces to host the city’s first mass vaccination clinics, inviting several thousand of the last remaining Phase 1A-eligible workers to start their two-dose process this week.
This year, instead of being a place to gather and party for a few hours, the RDA hopes the ice installations will serve as a gallery of sorts, for people to walk through and enjoy as they please.
Rochester Public Schools Superintendent Michael Muñoz, under fire for repeated incidences of plagiarism, will resign from his position, the School Board announced Tuesday.
The Rochester School Board approved a full return to the classroom for elementary and secondary students Tuesday evening; however, the final plans approved were more conservative than the proposals originally introduced by district administration and included in the meeting’s agenda.
In a unanimous vote Monday, the Rochester City Council cleared the way for Rochester Parks and Recreation to start work on 15 improvement projects, funded by the $2 million referendum approved by taxpayers in November.
Facing some scrutiny for their mostly in-house approach to distributing the Covid vaccine, Minnesota medical centers — including Mayo Clinic — have slowly started administering doses to individuals outside of their facilities.
