Amy Gohdes-Luhman, pastor of the Main Street Moravian Church, organized and hosted a town hall forum on heroin today. Panelists included:
Dr. Charles Reznikoff – Addiction Medicine Specialist, Opiate Agonist Therapy (OAT) Clinic - Northfield Hospital
Sarah Shippy – Program Director, MEd LICSW, Omada Behavioral Health Services
Scott Robinson – Sheriff’s Deputy, Rice County [...]
An recent op-ed the Sacramento Bee had an interesting angle on some of the traffic and transportation issues facing many parts of the U.S., including Northfield.
We’re stuck with the landscape we’ve built over the past 60 years, much of which is literally uninhabitable without a car. Trying to make our communities less car-dependent simply by [...]
As a logical followup to my earlier post on the “Eat Local” challenge, I was reading a report of the Slow Food Nation conference in San Francisco earlier this month.
The “slow food” movement, which started in Italy in 1986 to protest a McDonald’s in central Rome, has picked up momentum, with foodie notables like Michael [...]
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune about the rising trend of “co-working” space (shared space where the self-employed or telecommuting employee can plug in to work) got me thinking again about the benefits of such a space for Northfield. Is there a market?
The local coffeehouses are serving this function now, but I [...]
Just Food Co-op featured their third annual “Eat Local” challenge, running from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15.
Just Food Co-op is challenging community members to eat 80 percent of their diet –that’s four out of five ingredients–from food produced in the five-state region for four weeks. Those taking the 80% challenge are Leading Locavores. Folks not [...]
While visiting the bathroom at the Northfield Public Library last week, I noticed literacy signs and stickers scattered about.
Left: the use of car stickers with engaging signsCenter: urinal target practice. Hit that Early Literacy Spot!Right: bladder control tactics. Red=stop. Green=go. Yellow=wait.
Northfield News Managing Editor Jaci Smith’s column in today’s paper is titled Heroin is here and it is a problem.
And one thing I was never completely confident of was the breadth of the “problem.” I could never really get an answer, even after I began working here, on the veracity of Smith’s numbers. He said [...]
I saw Northfield Hospital emperor Ken Bank this morning (we were both loading up on drugs at GBM) and told him I was going to blog my surgery experience yesterday at his house of pain. Not to worry, I told him. The staff who I had contact with were terrific.
It started the moment I [...]
Now that Robbie and I have switched our Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance policy to a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA) called Options Blue, it’s in my interest to start thinking like an informed consumer.
I hurt my shoulder (landed on it while snowboarding a few months ago) and [...]
I blogged about my high-tech hearing aids over a year ago and wrote:
When I finally got over my ego problems at having hearing aids (geezer!) and began showing them to people, I was amazed at how many people (baby boomer guys, primarily) admitted to having the same hearing difficulty and had no idea that [...]
About ten years ago (I’m 57) I noticed I was starting to have trouble understanding people in places where there was a lot of background noise — pubs, coffeehouses, parties, etc. I noticed that it helped to watch their lips when they were speaking.
Each time I went in for a hearing check, I was told [...]
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.
See the complete listing of all her stories here, most current ones first.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski
Bruce Anderson Bill Ostrem David Bly, State Rep. 25B Ross Currier, NDDC Exec. Director Kevin Dahle, State Senator, D25 Bruce Morlan/Politics and a Pint League of Women Voters Northfield Calendar of events via Northfield.org