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Game Haven LLC is a new company dedicated to connecting tabletop game enjoyers. The company recently hosted a Board Game Day at 324 Studios in Rochester.
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Countering the Rochester’s sedate reputation as serious city, many playful business projects scampered onto the scene in 2024. Several businesses focused on fun opened or expanded last year.
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Castle Con, a tabletop gaming convention, is making its debut in Downtown Rochester from Jan. 24-26, 2025, at the Historic Chateau Theatre.
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With a public push for organizing nurses, two picket lines and departmental reorganizing, employment at Mayo Clinic — Minnesota's largest employer — was in the spotlight throughout the year.
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Local entrepreneur, Pauly Bennett, recently opened his most recent project, Marlowe, an apparel store in Zumbrota.
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On Dec. 24, Olmsted County Judge Kathy Wallace issued an order that an April hearing in Dr. Michael Joyner's suit against his employer, Mayo Clinic, “shall take place in person” with no Zoom option.
Angie Johnson and her husband raise Akaushi Wagyu cattle on their ranch near Aitkin. The couple sells their cuts on their website and from a trailer they drive throughout Minnesota.
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Utah-based Terratron paid $29.5 million for the Homewood Suites/Courtyard By Marriott hotels and related parking areas at 165/161 13th Ave. SW on Dec. 18. The hotels house a combined 225 rooms.
Craft breweries in Minnesota are creating new products and events they hope appeal to younger customers of drinking age, who tend to drink less beer than members of older generations.
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Pacific West Land paid $3.9M for Rochester's US Bank Center on Nov. 15. Ex-owner and strip mall mogul Jonathan Larmore has been convicted of stock fraud and is accused of misusing real estate funds.
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Rochester's Elks Lodge #1091 recently signed a lease to move into the Northgate Center. That means the Elks Lodge is no longer sharing space with Charlie’s Eatery in the Hillcrest Shopping Center.
Four supersectors gained jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis, led by strong gains in construction, which is up 2.1%.
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An 8-K form filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed Arctic Cat's intent to indefinitely suspend manufacturing at its Thief River Falls and St. Cloud facilities.
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After years of cooking for the Kasson American Legion Post 333, Paige Morris is opening the restaurant in the former Schoenies Pizza location. She hopes to start cooking by mid-January.
“It has been a wild run, and we have enjoyed (almost) every minute of it!” read a Wednesday post. “However, with the constant rising of operational costs we can no longer keep chuggin' along.”
Rochester brewers Gina Marcucci and Abram Krause are working to get their mead brewing off the ground.
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Rochester-based AgVantage Software Inc. writes cutting edge software for agricultural technologies on the foundation of the IBM power systems.
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Budget Blinds is relaunching in Rochester under new ownership and it's working on a new showroom at 1340 Salem Road S.W. in the T.J. Maxx Plaza. That’s the spot last occupied by Collins Orthodontics.
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What do the recent layoff announcements from major agriculture companies mean for the ag industry? Chad Hart, ag economics professor from Iowa State University, provides some insight.
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Mi Mexicana Market opened five months ago and just introduced a new fresh meat selection to fulfill a community need.
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