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The food vendors are returning this year and the beer garden will be open when Rochester’s annual community celebration kicks off later this month. The RochesterFest festivities will kick off with the popular Country Breakfast on the Farm on June 19th and in case you’re wondering the Rochesterfest parade is also coming back and will happen on Saturday, June 26th.

Your daily guide to Sun n Funs 2021 Aerospace Expo LAKELAND —Thousands of aviation enthusiasts from across the country are arriving in Lakeland for the 47th annual Sun n Fun Aerospace Expo this week from Monday through Sunday. The event features dozens of industry-related workshops, presentations and at least one airshow daily.  Heres some of the highlights, starting with the airshow lineups as selected by The Ledger. A full daily schedule can be found online at flysnf.org. Air show lineup,...

Hot water. youre co-operation is critical to reduce in outages." excel energy is getting hotel rooms for anyone that needs one. speaking of gas, we tried to fill up this afternoon at a local gas station in minneapolis. the pumps were freezing and they were only working intermittently. a local we spoke to said this cold is clearly having a big impacted on the city. >> seems like a ghost town. not a lot of people out. a lot of businesses are shutting down today. people are working from home when t...

New york yankees. train cancellation between baltimore and new york forced all of the team to -- i should say forced the team to call off practice today. the yanks were headed back to the bronks after last nights game two playoff loss against the orioles. no truth to the rumor that the red sox were responsible for amtrak this week. the dare devil known as fearless felix was strapped in and ready to fall 23 miles to earth. genius, right? his team called the whole thing off. weve been telling yo...

Monday, unless negotiations fall apart aat last minute. likely did in 2008. and in australia, a massive balloon launch goes horribly wrong as the 400-foot balloon was launching off, the began dough la came loose, side swiped an suv and almost hit onlookers. look at this thing. it was carrying a multimillion dollar game marray telescope bound for space. thats a pretty pricey payload to lose. >> they actually put rockets up in space, but getting the balloon up there, sometimes even more challeng...

Still ahead, the brutal killing of an arizona rancher, a death some say ignited this whole immigration battle. first, tom foreman back with a news bulletin. possible new trouble for goldman sachs. new york journal says they launched a criminal investigation into whether the investment firm or employees committed securities fraud in connection with mortgage trading. the firm and one of its traders are surntly fighting civil charges of securities fraud. "the wall street journal" is also report...

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