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Rochester oversight committee recommends changes for Civic Theatre

Rochester oversight committee recommends changes for Civic Theatre

A Rochester committee detailed a proposal to change the way the city supports the Rochester Civic Theatre. The recommendations come in the wake of the abrupt resignation of the theater’s director and recent revelations that the organization is struggling financially.
by Catharine Richert

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Planning, training, challenge and hope: Passing the family farm to the next generation

Planning, training, challenge and hope: Passing the family farm to the next generation

As Minnesota farmers get older — their average age is now 58 — many are thinking about what's next for the family farm. A challenging ag economy in recent years makes passing the farm on to the next generation more difficult.
by Dan Gunderson

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In New Ulm, a co-op funeral home builds community

In New Ulm, a co-op funeral home builds community

About 5,000 people in the southern Minnesota town are part of an unusual co-op, chipping in money to help ease the costs of funerals. It’s a community-run operation that pays dividends in more ways than one.
by Hannah Yang

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Land O’Lakes CEO: Close the rural-urban gap with high-speed internet

Land O’Lakes CEO: Close the rural-urban gap with high-speed internet

After boom years of growing markets and ethanol, the agriculture sector is hurting, and a lack of access to broadband internet is making it tough for farmers to modernize their businesses, raise their families and stay healthy, said CEO Beth Ford.
by Tim Nelson

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Study: Young walleye are smaller in MN lakes with zebra mussels, spiny waterflea

Study: Young walleye are smaller in MN lakes with zebra mussels, spiny waterflea

A new University of Minnesota study has found that when lakes were infested with the two common aquatic invasive species, young walleye didn’t grow as large as quickly, as they did before the invaders arrived.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Rochester Civic Theatre director resigns

Rochester Civic Theatre director resigns

In a statement, a theater spokesperson said that Kevin Miller, who took over during a tumultuous moment in the organization’s history, had left to spend more time with his family in Wisconsin.
by Catharine Richert

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Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

After sitting unseen and largely forgotten for more than a quarter century, a trove of images taken by a Minnesota photographer in the 1940s and 1950s are on display in a new museum exhibit in Winona.
by Andrew Krueger

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