January 9, 2009 – 5:03 pm
Melissa Reeder, Northfield’s Information Technology Department manager, has set a goal to begin uploading streaming videos of the City Council meetings to the Internet in 2010, so long as there is money in the budget for the $8,000-$10,000 upgrade.
With streaming videos, image files flow to a video player on a Web site in a continuous [...]
January 8, 2009 – 6:18 am
Our guest this week, fittingly so for the first show of the year, was Mary Rossing, the new mayor of Northfield as of Monday evening.
She’s been on the job for dozens of hours but unfortunately, as you’ll hear, has very few accomplishments she can point to. Recall, anyone?
Click play to listen. The [...]
January 6, 2009 – 5:55 pm
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 [...]
January 6, 2009 – 8:01 am
Mayor Mary Rossing put on a happy face from outgoing Mayor Lee Lansing at the start of last night’s Northfield City Council meeting.
See the album of 8 photos or this slideshow:
January 6, 2009 – 7:33 am
Citizens packed last night’s Northfield City Council meeting last night for the Way Park public hearing. A dozen addressed the Council at open mic.
I’ve closed comments here. Continue the discussion in this message thread attached to a previous blog post.
See the album of 17 photos or this slideshow:
January 5, 2009 – 8:10 am
I got this email yesterday from a Way Park area citizen, Tom Kotula:
On Monday, Jan 5th, the city council will hear discussions about whether or not to close off first street west to connect the two halves of Way Park. Perhaps this might be a good place to start a discussion concerning that [...]
January 5, 2009 – 7:05 am
The Friday Memo, written by interim Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week.
Although it’s directed to the mayor and city council, it’s helpful for citizens to see what’s going, too. The Friday memos are published and archived [...]
January 4, 2009 – 2:01 pm
Ever hear of misprision of a felony? Neither have I. But it’s in this Dec. 19 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled Prosecutors: St. Louis investment house ran $4.5 million fraud.
The City of Northfield’s missing millions are at the heart of the case.
A securities firm in St. Louis defrauded customers of more than [...]
December 31, 2008 – 6:35 am
In last week’s Strib: Minnesota’s E-waste: Talking high-tech trash.
Amid hot sales of new digital TV sets, computers, DVD players and other gear, old electronics are piling up - but there are options for recycling.
Waste Management’s Northfield office has an electronics recycling webpage and it says it’s 1510 South Highway 3 location is a drop-off [...]
December 30, 2008 – 6:42 am
The sign at the Rice County Landfill gate says:
Bridgewater Township has enacted a host fee on all garbage and demolition effective January 1, 2008 for $3.33 per ton of garbage and $75 per ton of demolition.
Bridgewater Township Resolution No. 2007 – 12 (PDF) says:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Board of Supervisors of [...]
December 29, 2008 – 7:47 pm
Discussions among LocallyGrownNorthfield.org visitors blossom and fade, to resurface another time or never again. Representative Journalism Project stories have had a similar cycle so far, but I’d like to insert a step when conversation about a topic begins to slow.
The goal of the step is to combine reader input and reported information into a single [...]
December 27, 2008 – 1:25 pm
Earlier today I linked to and excerpted from an article in today’s Wall St. Journal (pointed out to me by Ross) titled: All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper; Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists.
Paul Mulshine, opinion columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, misses the point when he argues that citizens aren’t likely [...]
December 27, 2008 – 7:11 am
Left: Bright Spencer alerted me that the ‘Cows Colleges and Contentment’ sign on North Hwy 3 near Dairy Queen is missing. Is the sign being repaired? Was it stolen? Right: the sign looks like this, although that’s the Hwy 19 sign on the west side of town, blogged by Carleton student [...]
December 27, 2008 – 6:43 am
There’s a Preserve America sign at the southwest end of the 5th St. Bridge, designating Northfield as a Preserve America community. We’re one of 9 Minnesota cities designated, though the profile of Northfield is not yet up on their website. (Red Wing’s is, however.)
This was evidently an initiative by the City of Northfield’s [...]
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.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski