5/9/2008

• $80 million addition will mean more power, less trash

  • Knutson construction cam

• Birding festival begins today

  • Great River Birding and Nature Festival

• Face on cereal boxes brings attention to cause

  • General Mills breast cancer Web site
  • General Mills corporate site
  • Susan G. Komen for the Cure

• Foundation will present information about what holds girls back

  • Women's Foundation of Minnesota

• Golf tourney raises money for children's hospitals

  • Kids Cup

• Growing up in the garden can be an enriching experience

  • Sargent's Gardens
  • Nature's Way

• Lifestyles digest

  • Rochester Public Library 2008 Amuzing Race

• Postage increase drives Forever Stamp sales

  • United States Postal Service new price information

• Rising cost of postage piques interest in 'Forever Stamps'

  • United States Postal Service new price information

5/8/2008

• Back Roads: Heritage preserved through recipes, and a little lye

  • Spring Grove Syttende Maie

• Curator 'sad to leave' Rochester Art Center

  • Scott Stulen
  • mnartists.org

• Entertainment briefs

  • Douglas Eckheart
  • Root Relief concert
  • Bluegrass festival
  • Bluff Country Gathering

• Hormel gives $5,000 toward early childhood education

  • Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation

• Lifestyle digest

  • Coyote Run

• New Faces offers help to Somali newcomers

  • Immigration Minnesota

• Pick a style and pick a ticket package for zoo music series

  • Music in the Zoo

• Plainview to hold first Bluebell Festival this weekend

  • Plainview CVB

• Southeastern Minnesota digest

  • Spring Grove Syttende Mai

5/7/2008

• Community to rally against gang violence

  • Rochester Police Department

• First lady ever prominent as diplomat

  • White House

• Government could take control of refinanced loans

  • Foreclosure Prevention Act
  • Highlights of the Act
  • Ways and Means bill going to floor
  • The highlights of the housing-related tax bill

• Help letter carriers stamp out hunger Saturday

  • National Association of Letter Carriers

• Historians seek public report on World War II forgeries

  • National Archives

• Rising farm land values could bust state economy, group warns

  • Minnesota 2020 report

• School leaders trim initial costs of improvement plan

  • Rochester Public Shools

• Shooting Star Trail to expand

  • Shooting Star Trail

5/6/2008

• 'Slow food' spring walk and dinner celebration is May 18

  • Slow Food (organic) organization

• Charter House residents adopt Central Park

  • Central Park location

• Chopping pretty with a handmade cutting board

  • Artist Edward Wohl

• Events part of Archaeology Week

  • Minnesota Archaeology Week

• First international aid reaches Myanmar after cyclone

  • World Vision
  • Red Cross
  • Direct Relief
  • UNICEF

• Group celebrates 20 years of recreating radio shows

  • Rochester Radio Theatre Guild

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Choral Arts Ensemble

• Officer candidates were evaluated anonymously, chief says

  • Rochester Police Department

• Rochester police force gets civilian help

  • Rochester Police Department

5/5/2008

• Area military museum nears completion

  • American Legion
  • Dairy Days

• Century grad Alex Kangas named MVP of Gophers hockey team

  • P-B's Faceoff blog

• Donations roll in from Vets

  • American Legion
  • Dairy Days

• Letter carriers will deliver more than mail on Saturday

  • National Association of Letter Carriers National Food Drive

• Lifestyle digest

  • Olmsted County health services
  • Youth Yellow Book

• Paramount Theatre gets a big check

  • Paramount Theatre

• Video: Wagons ho! Weeklong trek marks state's 150th birthday

  • Minnesota Sesquicentennial Wagon Train

• Wabasha's economy bobs along with the Mississippi

  • Wabasha

5/3/2008

• Consumers rein in spending, alter choices

  • My Grocery Deals

• Families still sought for 'Extreme Makeover'

  • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

• Local consumers look to rein in spending

  • My Grocery Deals

5/2/2008

• 'Carnivore' book review: Eat, drink and be compassionate

  • Compassionate Carnivore

• 'The Rookie' gives fix for '24' fans

  • The Rookie

• Book offers some advice on introducing parents

  • Hundreds of Heads Books' survival guides

• Books: Postcards preserve what Rochester used to look like

  • Rochester book

• Breast-feeding rates at record level

  • CDC report on breast-feeding

• Cinco de Mayo: Popular celebration also means big business

  • Cinco de Mayo

• Dieting? What's your temptation time?

  • Hundreds of Heads Books' survival guides

• Downtown Farmers Market opener is Saturday

  • Rochester Downtown Farmers Market

• Farmers market to offer Kids Day

  • Austin Area Farmers Market

• Gas prices likely to keep anglers closer to home

  • Wisconsin tourism information
  • Faribault visitor information

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Zumbro Valley Audubon Society
  • CFL Center Luther College
  • Shade of Green Hosta Society

• Lifestyle briefs

  • http://www.mnhs.org/places/index.htm
  • NAMI Southeast Minnesota

• Named after a river, Minnesota turns 150

  • Minnesota Historical Society sites

• Price of rice not so nice right now

  • Rice

• Republican blogger has Al Franken's Senate campaign reeling

  • Minnesota Democrats Exposed

• Retired Anderson House host cat is ready to be your guest

  • Historic Anderson House

• Tornado-flattened Kansas town is coming back greener

  • Greensburg

• Travel briefs

  • Saint Paul Vocal Forum
  • Sibley House Hands On Archaeology
  • http://www.mnhs.org/sibleyhouse
  • BlueBell Bloom at the Park

• Trim work

  • Better Homes and Gardens Home Improvement Challenge

• War of words, philosophies at root of GOP rift

  • Jacob Dettinger campaign committee
  • Olmsted County Republican Party

• Wetland restoration funds to go towards flood reduction work

  • Cedar River Watershed District

• Window dressing: Artists adorn skyways with murals

  • Art in the Sky artists

5/1/2008

• 'Milwaukee's best' to perform at Sacred Heart benefit Saturday

  • Paramount Theatre

• Entertainment briefs

  • SEMCAC
  • Phat Dude Productions

• Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use, share

  • Google Earth
  • Step-by-step basics
  • Gallery of KML files
  • Seven marathons

• Jeep rambles into Rochester and Austin

  • Jeep Rosenberg

• Mayo scientists tie on their tennies to battle MS

  • Donate to Team Mayo

• Olmsted Fairgrounds building, Mantorville school on 'endangered' list

  • Preservation Association of Minnesota

• Presentation offers closer look at mysterious disease

  • Donate to Team Mayo

• Saving forest 'hits pretty close to home'

  • Pachyderm Studio
  • Project Pachyderm

4/30/2008

• Does it really matter if Obama outspends Clinton on ads?

  • To read the Selzer & Co. Indiana poll

• Efficacy at core of district's plan to fill 'opportunity gap'

  • Rochester public schools

• Family, community mourn Kenyon 7-year-old who choked on hot dog

  • Mayo Clinic: Choking first aid
  • Centers for Disease Control: Choking Episodes Among Children
  • Goodhue County Red Cross

• Hands-on experience builds resumes -- and a house

  • Riverland Community College

• Jennifer Koski: Volunteering pays ... just not in dollars

  • United Way volunteer opportunities

• Luncheon honors woman who raised flowers to grow words

  • Austin Public Library

• Wilco rocks Mayo Civic Auditorium

  • Wilco

4/29/2008

• A FUNdraiser: School reaches out to Rolbiecki family

  • Caring Bridge

• Concepts for Second Street up for comment

  • Second Street Planning Project

• Homes facing foreclosure more than doubled in 1Q from 2007

  • RealtyTrac Inc.

• International Film Festival changes theaters

  • Rochester International Film Festival

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Rochester Public Library
  • Ronald McDonald House
  • Olmsted Community Action Program Walk and Rally

• Local author's 'Carnivore' takes bite out of meat market

  • Compassionate Carnivore

• P-B immigration report receives journalism award

  • Minnesota Journalism Center

• Put your hands together

  • National Day of Prayer

• Retailers offer incentives to lure stimulus plan dollars

  • Stimulus payment schedule

• Rushford firm specializes in nanoparticle coatings

  • University of Minnesota Center for Nanostructure Applications

• States faulted over privacy breaches; tighter security urged

  • Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
  • The Virginia Watchdog

• Teen group works to get public thinking green

  • Alaska Youth for Environmental Action

4/28/2008

• Ballpark funeral held in Ohio for long-missing soldier

  • Yellow Ribbon Support Center
  • Matt Maupin

• Caution: Mature video game ahead

  • Grand Theft Auto

• DFL supports Walz for 2nd term

  • Tim Walz
  • 1st District DFL
  • Bryan Davis
  • Dick Day

• Diabetes before motherhood on the rise

  • Diabetes Care
  • American Diabetes Association
  • Kaiser Permanente

• Gene therapy experiments improve vision in nearly blind

  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • National Eye Institute

• Hiatt to receive lifetime achievement award for songwriting

  • John Hiatt

• Hold on to your couch: Cruise returning to 'Oprah'

  • Oprah

• Mayo High School physics teacher is finalist for state honor

  • Teacher of the Year finalists
  • Journal of 2007 Minnesota Teacher of the Year

• Q-TV plans live town hall discussion

  • KSMQ

• Salad Girl poised for takeoff

  • Salad Girl

• Scholars run down more clues to abiding Holocaust mystery

  • Wallenberg Association
  • Swedish government site
  • International Wallenberg Foundation
  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • National Archives site on CIA, OSS, Pond documents
  • CIA documents
  • CIA Pond article
  • State Department Wallenberg collection

• Volunteers find fun, value in planting trees

  • RNeighborWoods program

• Women at work for Habitat for Humanity affiliate

  • Women Build

4/26/2008

• 'Find Your Future' seminar on Monday

  • Riverland Community College

• 'Help is Here Express' bus coming to Austin

  • Partnership for Prescription Assistance

• Historic Mantorville dam at a crossroads

  • Mantorville

• Plans advance for second Gift of Life house

  • Gift of Life Transplant House

• Safe Haven among shelters in crisis

  • Safe Haven Pet Rescue

• Travel briefs

  • AdventureWomen, Inc.

• Video: Shelters filled to rafters with abandoned pets

  • Safe Haven Pet Rescue

4/25/2008

• Arbor Day festivities celebrate trees, environment

  • Global Action Rochester

• Book buyback program keeps on giving

  • RCTC Scholarships

• Faith: Rap stars spread gospel, but is it a mixed message?

  • The Spirit of Hip-Hop

• Farmers markets growing across area

  • Minnesota Farmers' Market Association

• Game on! Teacher touts tabletop over computer

  • Rochester Gamers

• Kasson will buy insurance to cover sewer backups

  • City of Kasson

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Southeast Minnesota Celiac Support Group

• Local sports calendar

  • Big Nine Conference
  • Hiawatha Valley League
  • Three Rivers Conference
  • Southeast Conference

• Mayo High School senior campaigns for seat at national DFL convention

  • First District DFL

• Most food-borne illnesses 'happen in the home kitchen'

  • A "Safe Food Handling" fact sheet

• Music students benefit from a noteworthy program

  • MusicLink Foundation

• Music therapist accompanies young man's battle with cancer

  • American Music Therapy Association

• RCTC Foundation gives nearly 200 scholarships

  • RCTC Foundation

• Rochester curriculum director leaves for job in Wisconsin

  • Rochester School District

• Star Watch: May skylights will include rare sighting

  • U of M-Twin Cities, Department of Astronomy

• Winner is crystal clear: Zipper necklace wins contest

  • Swarovski crystal
  • Patricia Kraemer Web site

4/23/2008

• Sirens offer emergency-drill opportunity

  • Olmsted County Emergency Management

4/22/2008

• Branching out: Free trees available Friday for planting

  • City of Rochester Forestry
  • RNeighbors tree planting

• Byron event slogan: Eat, drink and be healthy

  • Alzerheimer's Association

• Catholics slate public seminar

  • Kim and Jason

• Ex-refugee among nine youths honored by Olmsted County

  • Olmsted County Youth Commission

• Hecimovich is named Volunteer of the Year

  • Norm Hecimovich

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Quarry Hill Nature Center

• S. St. Paul's stockyard closing creates opportunity in Zumbrota, Cannon Falls

  • Zumbrota Market
  • Lanesboro Sales Commission
  • South St. Paul
  • Lewiston Sales Inc.

• School leaders question board about support

  • Austin School Board
  • Austin Superintendent

• Teachers throw weight behind students' projects

  • NASA

• U of M to help hire 10 for research at Hormel Institute

  • Hormel Institute

• Webkinz turn 3: Retailers brace for the cute-and-cuddly crowd

  • Webkinz

4/21/2008

• Auditor issues positive report on firefighter pensions

  • Minnesota Auditor's report

• Hormel Institute hopes ideas blossom

  • Hormel Institute

• Lifestyle digest

  • Charles City Military History Days

• Road construction season kicks off with major repairs on Circle Drives

  • Olmsted County Public Works

• Rochester Passover seder gathering part of record attempt

  • Hatikva
  • B'nai Israel

• School board hopes to boost student numbers in extracurriculars

  • Austin Public Schools

• Tickets available for Hogan memorial

  • Kellsey Jean Hogan Memorial Fund

• Trip to D.C. memorial awes World War II veterans from Austin

  • Honor Flight

• Video: Trip to D.C. memorial awes World War II veterans

  • Honor Flight

4/20/2008

• Less effective vaccine cited for worst flu season in 3 years

  • The CDC publication

• Woodturning bowls over band teacher

  • Bluff Country Art Tour

4/19/2008

• Austin's Main Street group keeps looking forward

  • Main Street Project

• Center Street project upsets businesses

  • Rochester City Council agenda

• HIV numbers low in 9-county region

  • Minnesota HIV numbers
  • Rural AIDS Action Network
  • Mayo Clinic HIV/AIDS information

• Northwest Airlines, Rochester arise together

  • NWA History Centre

4/18/2008

• Artist's eye takes him to the kitchen

  • Tim Trost

• Dalai Lama talk at Mayo Clinic available online

  • The Dalai Lama's panel discussion at Mayo Clinic
  • Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. (audience questions for the Dalai Lama)
  • Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.: "Mind-Brain-Body Interaction and Meditation"
  • Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.: "Reflections on the Origination, Development, and Scope of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs in Mainstream Medicine"
  • Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D.: "Compassionate and Mindful End-of-Life Care - A Relational-Contemplative Approach for Clinicians"
  • Linda E. Carlson, Ph.D., R. Psych.: "Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Programs for Patients and Families Living with Cancer - Overview of a Program of Research"

• Faith: Construction moving along on new synagogue

  • B'nai Israel Synagogue

• Family channels grief into benefit for Elgin park

  • More about Chase and the fundraisers

• Food, shelter assistance to be allocated to Olmsted groups

  • Emegency Food and Shelter National Board program

• Historic group honors Red Wing

  • National Trust

• Lifestyle briefs

  • MN Artists
  • Rochester Art Center
  • 10 Who Make a Difference Awards
  • Mill City Museum

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Miss Tess

• Local teachers recognized for excellence

  • Videos of the four award winners

• Matchbox will perform Austin author's story

  • Matchbox Children's Theatre

• Pentagon institute calls Iraq war a major debacle'

  • Read the report

• Pony up for Caleb: Horses will be auctioned off Saturday

  • Stewartville Sportsman Club
  • National Kidney Foundation
  • American Kidney Fund

• RCTC's new stadium gets the green carpet treatment

  • RCTC stadium

• State's sesquicentennial banner arrives in Rochester

  • Minnesota 150

• Teachers recognized for excellence

  • Videos of the four award winners

• Video of Dalai Lama visit available online

  • The Dalai Lama's panel discussion at Mayo Clinic
  • Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.: "Mind-Brain-Body Interaction and Meditation"
  • Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.: "Reflections on the Origination, Development, and Scope of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs in Mainstream Medicine"
  • Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D.: "Compassionate and Mindful End-of-Life Care - A Relational-Contemplative Approach for Clinicians"
  • Linda E. Carlson, Ph.D., R. Psych.: "Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Programs for Patients and Families Living with Cancer - Overview of a Program of Research"
  • Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. (audience questions for the Dalai Lama)

4/17/2008

• 'Nothing' happens at the Masque

  • The Masque

• Entertainment digest

  • Lewd Panache
  • Crossings at Carnegie
  • Rochester Figure Skating Club

• Gas hits $3.42 a gallon, bus ridership rises

  • Gas prices

• Gas prices hit $3.42 in Rochester; more people boarding the bus

  • Gas prices Rochester

• Lanesboro, Commonweal weather delay of opener

  • Ibsen Festival

4/15/2008

• Area Catholics travel to see Pope Benedict

  • Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. visit official Web site

• Book makes children in war-torn country 'visible'

  • Rochester Reads

• Dalai Lama's visit brings Tibet protests, from both sides of issue

  • The Dalai Lama's visit to Mayo Clinic
  • Dalai Lama Webcast

• Fit for a family: Y program turns off TV and turns on fun

  • Rochester Area Family Y
  • Healthy Family

• Hot-rod tour slates June stopover in Rochester

  • Rochester CVB

• How will Rochester fare under airline merger?

  • Northwest Airlines
  • Delta

• Lifestyle briefs

  • PAIIR
  • Children's Museum of La Crosse

4/14/2008

• Guest column: Rochester woman cared enough to give

  • Organ donation

• Lifestyle briefs

  • Modern Woodmen Join Hands Day

• Mayo Jacksonville hospital opens on schedule Saturday

  • Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

• Southeastern Minnesota digest

  • Clean Energy Resource Teams
  • Welch Village

• Teacher hopes clinical trial offers insight into stomach problems

  • Clinical trial
  • Dyspepsia

4/12/2008

• Mayo Clinic Hospital opens with flurry of excitement

  • Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

• Mayo Clinic moves into new hospital in Jacksonville

  • Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

4/11/2008

• Entrepreneur, inventor, golf aficionado -- all in one

  • Even Par Enterprises

• Family sees gift in Down syndrome son

  • A video of Seth's first year

• Go to a blog and see if a hockey game breaks out

  • NHL

• Joe Jencks excited to play 'historic venue'

  • Joe Jencks

• Lifestyle briefs

  • SEMYO 5k Walk/Run

• Minnesota native rides wave in 'Rusalka'

  • Minnesota Opera
  • Kelly Kaduce
  • Renee Fleming singing "Song to the Moon"
  • State Opera Prague

• Road work includes I- 90 stretch from Dexer to Stewartville

  • Minnesota Department of Transportation

• Rochester Reads story 'got them talking' in schools

  • Rochester Reads

• Spring means garage sales and treasure hunts

  • Garage Sale Fever excerpt

• Todd-to-Wildwood trail could open this fall

  • City of Austin Park, Recreation and Forestry

• Travel briefs

  • Ovation Guest Artist Series
  • Duluth Earth Day Gallery Hop
  • Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
  • Hill House Chamber Players
  • Grand Casino Hinckley

4/10/2008

• Back in Blue: Popular group returns with revamped show

  • Blue Man Group

• Big loss makes Grand Meadow man a winner

  • United Way of Mower County

• Big weight loss makes Grand Meadow man a winner

  • United Way of Mower County

• Concert features noted saxophonist Ashu

  • Rochester Chamber Music Society
  • Rochester Art Center

• Entertainment digest

  • Rochester Repertory Theater
  • Rochester orchestra
  • Rawflcopter
  • Seattle Opera

• Festival will highlight the talents of other cultures

  • Rochester International Association World Festival

• The 'shoe' must go on at Pacelli

  • 'The Shoemaker and the Elves'

• Video: Tenant finds health, hope at Salvation Army apartment

  • Salvation Army