1 week Ago By Lee Hilgendorf
2000 – 25 years ago Entries are starting to come in for the fifth annual Rochesterfest Midwestern Lumberjack Championships, which are scheduled for June 17-18 at Rochester’s Silver Lake. The registration deadline for the third annual Conoco Kids’ Classic, which is run as part of the Med-City Marathon, is Monday. The race is free and open to anyone in grades 1-6.
Rochester native Michael Restovich lined a two-run homer to left field to snap a 3-3, eighth-inning tie and gave the Miracle a 5-3 victory over Vero Beach at Hammond Stadium. 26 Apr 2000, Wed Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) Newspapers.com 1975 – 50 years ago Sullivan Construction was awarded a $159,000 contract for several projects at RCC, including four tennis courts, a football field and baseball diamond, road and lighting improvements.
Rochester police sold about 70 unclaimed, lost and stolen bicycles at a public auction this morning with proceeds from the sale going to the Police Benevolent Association. The Rochester Figure Skating Club will present its annual ice show this weekend at the Mayo Civic Auditorium Arena. The theme for this year’s ice show is “Color My World.
” 26 Apr 1975, Sat Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) Newspapers.com 1950 – 75 years ago In observance of National Mental Health Week, the KROC Rochester Whiz Kid radio program will be broadcast tonight at 7:30 from the Rochester-Olmsted County public health building. Three itinerant magazine salesmen were cooling their heels in the city jail today, charged with violating city ordinance 512 – a so-called Green River ordinance prohibiting door-to-door soliciting.
26 Apr 1950, Wed Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota) Newspapers.com 1925 – 100 years ago A new and up-to-date lunchroom, replacing the Coney Island Lunch, which was destroyed in the recent Garden Theater fire, will be opened in the old Bulletin office building. Philip Page will be in charge.
With a total of 42 runs during the month of April thus far, the Rochester Fire Department has broken all records for the number of alarms answered for any single month in the history of the department.]]>.
