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The city of Rochester will begin to record and remove hundreds of racist covenants included in housing deeds from the early 20th century, the City Council voted Monday — striking language that barred people of color and non-Christians from owning homes in large swaths of the city.
While vaccination rates in Olmsted County continue to outpace state and national levels, Covid-19 cases in our area have followed the statewide trend slightly upward in recent days — ending a three-month streak of constant decline, and leading a top Mayo Clinic official to call for caution through the spring months.
Rochester Parks and Recreation plans to continue with its pack-in, pack-out trash policy indefinitely, despite concerns from some Park Board members about how the strategy has been received by the public.
As Rochester Public Schools prepares to welcome secondary students back to full in-person learning in two week’s time, principals of four RPS secondary schools gave the School Board a look at what students can expect the new school experience to look like.
To mark its 75th anniversary as well as the opening of a new exhibit, the Rochester Art Center is inviting guests through its doors at no charge.
A worldwide outage of Microsoft Teams threw a wrench into the Rochester City Council’s plans Monday, delaying the start of the meeting by an hour and leading the council to postpone much of the meeting until next Monday.
Twin Cities philanthropist Helene Houle has provided Mayo Clinic with a $60 million gift in honor of her late husband, John Nasseff. Mayo says the funding will help “accelerate its efforts to transform health care delivery in Minnesota.”
After roughly nine months of sitting empty, a new local pizza joint is close to firing up the ovens inside the former 300 First space in downtown Rochester.
Local health leaders are encouraging residents recently made eligible for a vaccine to sign up wherever they can — whether that be through the state, their provider, the public health department and/or a pharmacy — and then take the first appointment that becomes available.
According to the library, the express model will give patrons the chance to browse and borrow materials or use the internet for up to 30 minutes each day. The service will be offered Thursday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m..
For the first time since closing a year ago due to the pandemic, Fiddlehead Coffee Co. began welcoming customers to its downtown shop this week.
Amid a rough season for the Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball team, Rochester’s Matthew Hurt shined in his sophomore campaign — taking home high honors from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the process.
The department is scheduled to begin construction later this year on the first city splash pad at Lincolnshire Park, 5276 Members Parkway NW.
Rochester Public Schools announced Tuesday it is in the process of developing a full-time online school for the upcoming fall, providing a permanent distance learning option for the nearly 18,000 students enrolled in the district.
The Rochester City Council gave the green light Monday for DMC to move forward with its plans for Discovery Walk, promising to provide a link between the Heart of the City and the Soldiers Field Park area, two of DMC’s identified sub-districts. The project has been in planning stages since 2017.
All remaining Olmsted County K-12 educators and child care workers waiting to receive the vaccine should have the chance to be inoculated in the coming days, public health officials reported Tuesday.
Rochester’s day center for individuals experiencing homelessness will remain open through at least August 31, after the Rochester City Council approved a plan Monday evening to fund its operation inside the former Silver Lake fire station for an additional three-and-a-half months.
Roasted Bliss, already with one location in St. Charles, plans to begin offering up gourmet pastries and coffee in late March to early April. The shop will be located at 2550 South Broadway, next to Massage Envy.
After a decade-plus run downtown, Dooley’s Pub will not reopen in its longtime location along First Avenue.
Citing “consistently low” Covid-19 rates in the area, Mayo Clinic announced this week it will begin allowing up to two visitors per patient at its Rochester sites.
