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For the rest of the year, the City of Rochester is doubling the amount of time people can park for free inside the city’s six parking ramps.
After Covid-19 upended local commerce, a number of entrepreneurs and nonprofits stepped up to support the small business community. Now, as Rochester bounces back from the pandemic, some of those businesses are sticking around — and finding new ways to make it easier to shop local.
The Minnesota board charged with overseeing licensing for public school administrators has voted to censure Rochester Public Schools Superintendent Michael Muñoz.
The Purple Goat will serve familiar items like sandwiches and rotisserie chicken — but with a creative twist — such as their mushroom and Swiss burger garnished with a house-made four-mushroom sauce.
A planned Creative Crawl will merge reggae with flash poetry and jazz with printmaking as part of an immersive arts experience making its debut Saturday in Rochester.
The City of Rochester has a framework for how it plans to spend much of the $17.4 million it received as a result of the American Rescue Plan.
The iconic golden kernels typically illuminating the Rochester skyline are currently shrouded. The Ear of Corn Water Tower is getting a makeover.
The Rochester City Council voted 6-1 Monday to put $200,000 toward the purchase of 17 additional security cameras downtown.
Under his leadership, Civic Music brought programming like Downtown by the Riverside, which has served more than 1 million concert-goers with acts like Kansas, the Wailers, Eric Church, and George Thorogood.
Officials from the City of Rochester and Destination Medical Center are heading back to the drawing board to determine the next steps for the historic Chateau Theatre.
This Saturday, the Rochester community will come together for a Juneteenth Jubilee Celebration at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park to honor the emancipation of the last enslaved people on June 19, 1865.
On Wednesday, it was announced that ThaiPop will take over the street-level space at 4 Third Street Southwest, now home to Nellie’s on 3rd. The latter restaurant will be closing in June after a year-long run.
Chao Mwatela, Rochester’s new director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), made her first appearance in front of the City Council on Monday.
Twin Cities’ hip-hop artist Nur-D announced Friday that he will not be performing a scheduled concert at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds, citing recent conduct by the event’s promoter.
After announcing that Soldiers Field Pool would be closing and Silver Lake Pool would be delaying opening to the public, the City of Rochester Parks and Recreation department says both pools will open on June 14.
Scanlon’s book, Rochester Stories: A Med City History, dives into the history of Rochester — going far beyond the tales of Mayo Clinic and its success. The book is told in a series of short stories, some of which have never been published until now.
Citing safety issues, the City of Rochester announced Wednesday it would be closing Soldiers Field Pool and delaying the opening of Silver Lake Pool.
Rochester’s bars and restaurants will not have to pay their liquor license fees in 2021, the Rochester City Council confirmed Monday, extending a key portion of the city’s relief efforts for an industry that took a major economic hit due to Covid-19.
Downtown Rochester’s Movies in the Park returns this weekend with a full summer lineup of blockbuster films.
Rochester Public Transit reintroduced four routes that had been suspended due to Covid-19 — bringing the bus provider closer to full service.
