Category Archives: Businesses

Clutter buster Nancy Aspaas is based right here in River City

Here’s a Northfield-based business that I didn’t know about until I saw it on the cover of today’s Variety section in the Strib in an article titled Let the de-mess fest begin!

Nancy Aspaas (on the left in the photo of the paper) is professional organizer who has a business called Just Call RoomService.
RoomService teaches the [...]

New Northfield Mayor Mary Rossing talks about her first day

I surprised Mayor Mary Rossing in her store Present Perfect this morning with my video camera. I mostly asked her questions that had to do with Monday night’s City Council meeting, which you can read a bit about here. We touched upon her changes in meeting procedure, her tactics on facilitating meetings and her outlook [...]

Practice safe lunch: use condiments

And pay a visit to Tim Sellars at Tiny’s.

Sweet Lou’s Waffles shuts down for now

I got a heads-up from Norman Butler earlier this week that Sweet Lou’s Waffle Bar and Cafe would be shutting down soon.  He had recently spoken with Lewis Newman, the owner.
He told Norman that there’s a possibility the current managers would re-open the restaurant in the near future, but the sign on the [...]

River City Books to close

This email to Carleton faculty and staff was forwarded to me:
Carleton is announcing today that it is closing River City Books, the College-owned bookstore located at 306 Division Street in downtown Northfield.
River City Books opened in March 2002 as a service and benefit to the Northfield community, but the lack of a [...]

Straw poll: Best of Northfield 2009

The Northfield Entertainment Guide and Locally Grown bring you the second annual
Best of Northfield 2009 VOTE FOR THE BEST!
Every February, the Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG) will bring you the best of Northfield as determined by you, the reader.
Vote by filling out this online survey or by filling [...]

Just Food Co-op needs you

I’ve been having fun with Just Food Co-op lately on LoGroNo (here and here) and so, since I’m a long-time member, I thought I’d try to redeem myself for these and other sins for which I’m sure to commit in the future.
   The Co-op is in the middle of a campaign for new members, as [...]

GBM: Nobody goes there no more, it’s too crowded

On Saturday mornings, the Goodbye Blue Monday (GBM) is like that popular St. Louis restaurant made famous by Yogi Berra. Here’s proof from last week.

Click play to watch. 20 seconds.

Nice rack! Broadening the field and busting through the glass ceiling

With the influx of women on the Northfield City Council (see the ‘broadening the field’ discussion thread), the distributor who handles the Just Food Co-op magazine rack (another discussion) has evidently seen an opportunity.
On sale now - Bust: For women with something to get off their chests.

Tina and Chad might need some help with the free Christmas Eve dinner at Beef ‘O’ Brady’s

 
Tina Severson, owner of Northfield Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, posted this comment to a LG discussion thread last week:
I would like to let everyone know that Beef ‘O’ Brady’s will be hosting a free Christmas dinner for those less fortunate this holiday season. Dinner will be held on Christmas Eve and serving will begin [...]

What are the Specials currently offered by Northfield-area eating and drinking establishments?

Robbie’s been bugging me to blog this for a while and when I saw Victor Summa mention ‘Blue Light Specials’ in a comment attached to the kiosk blog post, I thought I’d better get to it.

Which area bars and restaurants have Happy Hours, when are they, and what’s offered?
Which [...]

Public access TV takes investment of time, money

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Is the Co-op Republican/Conservative-friendly?

  Left: As I entered Just Food Co-op earlier this week, I noticed this car plastered with bumper stickers like “Wal Mart Sucks the Life Out of Our Towns” and “Unions: the folks that (sic) brought you the weekends” as well as numerous stickers for Democratic candidates.  I didn’t see [...]

A snowy night at the Ole Cafe

Back in Nov. 2005, ArtOrg hosted the John Berkey Observed Exhibition, “the second and largest exhibition of world famous illustrator John Berkey’s seldom seen works.”
Berkey was best known for his science fiction illustrations but Robbie and I fell in love with the small-town look of ‘Moonrise’ and bought a print.
I [...]

St. Paul network might aid NTV

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