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Patrons were able to taste Flapdoodle's cookie monster ice cream while listening to Rochester Poet Laureate Jean Prokott and chomped down on some salted caramel while rocking out to Lonesome Losers.

Rochester's party is called '4th Fest' and is a free family-friendly event. Thousands will gather for this celebration which includes local food vendors, craft beer, and live music. Organizers just released the schedule for Rochester's '4th Fest'. Find out where it is, when it starts, and what's planned below.

Rochester's party is called '4th Fest' and is a free family-friendly event. Thousands will gather for this celebration which includes local food vendors, craft beer, and live music. Organizers just released the schedule for Rochester's '4th Fest'. Find out where it is, when it starts, and what's planned below.

Columnist Steve Lange tells you how to win the most coveted engraved wooden token in all of Rochester.

Poetry is alive, verse can thrive, if we muster poets in Rochester.

Jean Prokott, recently named poet laureate for the city of Rochester, Minn., will be the featured guest writer for this month’s First Tuesday Laureate Writers Series. The event will be

"There's a space for a poem in every single place — a hospital, a museum, a riverfront, a coffee shop, a bookstore, a brewery, a sidewalk — and Rochester has embraced this well," Jean Prokott wrote.

Rochester council approved appointment of third person to hold city's poet title as concern about selection process is voiced.

High school teacher and published poet Jean Prokott wants to get community engaged in poetry.

Rochester’s Poet Laureate is an honorary position that was established to promote appreciation for poetry and the language arts, and to further community understanding of, and support for, the Laureate’s role.