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 [...]
And pay a visit to Tim Sellars at Tiny’s.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Northfield Entertainment Guide and Locally Grown bring you the second annual
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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 [...]
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.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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