Saint Olaf College administrators have decided to stop donating the institution’s money to Northfield non-profits.
“It’s ethically troubling in hard economic times, with rising costs of higher education, to take tuition money and capriciously gift that to other non-profits,” Steve Blodgett, Director of Marketing and Communications, said on Thursday
David Anderson, college president, met with the city’s [...]
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 [...]
At the Northfield Armory, 519 Division Street, from 7:00-9:00p. This is the final public open house prior to public hearings at the Planning Commission and City Council meetings at which the new Plan and Land Development Regulations will be adopted (dates TBD). The purpose of the meeting is to present an overview of [...]
Sacramento recently held their annual Chalk It Up! festival in support of funding for arts education. (See neighborhoods.org’s Flickr album for more photos.)
I blogged about this a couple of years ago under the heading, “Something Else to Do With Sidewalks”. This could be a great enhancement to some of our community events….. perhaps an [...]
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for weeks, ever since I received a brochure in the mail about the conference.
The image on the front of the brochure made me think, “Looks like Northfield”. At second glance: “Hey! It IS Northfield!” (Postcard shown is not the brochure image.)
Ross blogged the details and [...]
A few years ago, when I served on the EDA, we invited Geralyn Sheehan to present the concept of Asset-Based Community Development.
“Community development” is a rather catch-all term which generally refers to infrastructure improvements, business development, and city or regional planning, sometimes crossing over into the social realm of citizen involvement. “Asset-based [...]
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 [...]
Many of our discussion threads veer off in the direction of, “What Northfield really needs is a ____________.” Now would be a particularly significant time to devote a whole post and discussion to the topic.
The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation’s “E.R. Team” has been working on some new initiatives in the areas of business [...]
Please excuse me for abusing my bully pulpit here on LoGro, but I’d like to promote an out-of-town event with a highly local connection.
Today’s Star Tribune included the review: “New Gershwin a Hit” in which my stepson, Rico Heisler, received accolades for his starring role. (Those of you who know Rico’s dad, [...]
In the “Local Girl Makes Good” category, consultant and author Barbara Burke recently scored a deal with John Wiley & Sons for her book, “The Napkin, the Melon, and the Monkey: A Customer-Service Fable”. The photo at left is from a recent celebration thrown by friends at which Barbara favored all with a reading. [...]
Recent rainfall over the midwest and northern plains states has resulted in extensive flooding in southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, and in Iowa. LoGro reader and frequent commentor Paul Fried suggested via email that we start a discussion thread for this topic. He wrote,
I know that Kitchen Concepts … carries Bertch cabinets (kitchen & [...]
It was a picture-perfect weather for a performance by the Northfield Community Band (under the direction of Claire Larson) on Bridge Square last night, the first concert in their 2008 series of four. Last night featured music from the forties and included a salute to Northfield area WWII veterans who are still with us.
The [...]
In keeping with the Locally-Grown-as-Gossip-Blog theme:
A friend who moved to Silicon Valley [from New York] in the late 90s said the worst thing about living there was the low quality of the eavesdropping. At the time I thought she was being deliberately eccentric. Sure, it can be interesting to eavesdrop on people, but is good [...]
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