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Despite reservations about the artist’s past behavior, the Olmsted County Fair Board has decided to keep the Minneapolis-based hip-hop artist Prof atop its music lineup for a ticketed concert this summer.
Olmsted County’s weekly Covid-19 case rates continue to drop, with numbers reaching their lowest totals since the start of the pandemic.
On Tuesday at 7 p.m. the ensemble will perform for an in-person audience at Essex Park Shelter Area, 5455 West River Road NW. Community members are invited to bring chairs and blankets to sit and enjoy the free concert.
As proposed, the first phase of Rochester Rapid Transit would be a 2.6 mile transit line connecting downtown Rochester, the Mayo Civic Center, Mayo Clinic campuses, and the Rochester-Olmsted Government Center.
The total — 102, as of Tuesday — was updated this week to reflect deaths that occurred months earlier, but had not yet been reported to the county.
We talked with Dr. Anjali Bhagra, medical director of Mayo’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, to learn more about the Clinic’s $100 million commitment to furthering diversity and inclusion efforts on its campuses.
Britta Balko, a nurse at Mayo Clinic Hospital — St. Marys Campus, can remember the first time she walked into a room of a patient who had contracted Covid-19. It was a little more than a year ago, as the country was beginning to feel the impacts of a novel coronavirus sweeping the globe.
Mayo Park will come back to life this summer with Rochester Civic Music announcing the return of the Down by the Riverside concert series.
One Discovery Square will have a new tenant this spring, Mayo Clinic officials said Wednesday — welcoming a leading medical diagnostic firm to the top floor of the four-story building.
The Rochester City Council narrowly gave approval for a zoning change in the Folwell neighborhood Monday evening, clearing the way for a multi-unit housing project that garnered attention from neighbors.
Get the bathing suit and water wings ready: in a matter of weeks, Rochester’s two public pools will be opening for the first time since 2019 — and this summer, admission will be free to everyone, the Rochester City Council confirmed Monday.
Workshop Food Hall and Bar, the latest project from Resident Property Management co-owners Andy and Kari Friederichs, will open to the public for the first time in mid-June, following the opening of Workshop Barbers in the space at 1232 Third Avenue SE earlier this month.
Rochester’s Covid-19 mask mandate is no longer in effect, city officials said Friday; however the city will continue to require face coverings at city-operated facilities.
Kent Pekel will succeed Michael Muñoz and become the next superintendent of Rochester Public Schools on July 1, the Rochester School Board announced Thursday evening.
Mayo Clinic announced Thursday that it will partner with fellow health care giant Kaiser Permanente to invest in a medical startup at the forefront of at-home medicine — forecasting a shift in the medical field that could change how hospitals provide care to some patients.
The Mayo Clinic Blood Center has put a call-out for all well and healthy individuals to “roll up their sleeves and schedule a blood donation to help our community.”
The Rochester Jeremiah Program campus opened its doors in December 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, and is now home to 40 single mothers and their families.
Rochester event organizers are beginning to drop dates for live events this summer, in the wake of Gov. Tim Walz’s announcement to begin rolling back the state’s Covid-related restrictions.
It appears the former Dooley’s site may stay dark for the foreseeable future, after a recent request for proposals failed to generated interest in the space.
The finalists were selected from a pool of 11 applicants based on hiring criteria established by the School Board.
