Reporter Rebecca Mitchell

It was so fun to talk books with Chelsie Yotter! She opened Minnesota's third romance-only bookstore in Red Wing in January 2026.

“Romance … sounds like a very small niche thing but it really is quite broad. Like there's so many different ways that romance can be interpreted and be read, that I think that there is something in there for everyone,” Yotter said.

Local romance author writes her next chapter with new bookstore in Red Wing As a reader, writer and business owner, owner Chelsie Yotter said romance books are one of the “unapologetically joyful things in life.”

After enjoying saunas around the world, Jake Kuhn hopes to make his northwest Rochester sauna experience “memorable” — and available to as many people as possible.

New sauna experience opens next to Cook Park in Rochester “It’s cool because people come in here maybe in a group of a couple people and it's just such a friendly and social vibe of people that come,” said SweetDrip Sauna owner Jake Kuhn.

“I love watching the bees,” Audrey McCollough said after about a year of raising bees. After caring for other insects and researching bees, she received the 2024 youth beekeeper scholarship from the Minnesota Hobby Beekeepers Association to start their hive, which has grown into two hives in their backyard. “When the sun's shining just right, you can see them zooming over the housetop and then coming down. I love how they just go in all different directions and they can find their way home even when they have a 6-mile round trip.”

This group of Rochester Public Utilities workers forge a bond over beekeeping “It's like a science project because there's just so much to what bees can do. They're just a very interesting species of animal that blows your mind,” said Nick Winkles.

How the two Sigs, father and son of Rochester, became published authors at the same time

Both Dr. Sig Muller and Sig Muller, Jr., share a common feature: They see God's hand where others might see coincidence.

Read more: https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/how-the-two-sigs-father-and-son-of-rochester-became-published-authors-at-the-same-time

Grateful to share this story of coffee and community 💜 ☕️

“Coffee is just a great way to share ideas, it gets the creative juices flowing and it also brings people together. And it's a family-oriented product so we want to be very supportive of this community and families,” said co-owner Alec McGinn.

New owners brewing, roasting at Trail Creek Coffee Roasters in Kasson The smells of coffee beans roasting waft through the streets near First Avenue in Kasson. While the winds are shifting owners Jim and Crystal Whitmarsh of Trail Creek Coffee Roasters to Michigan, the coffee will keep brewing in Southeast Minnesota.