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By Griff Wigley, on January 24, 2012, 9:08 pm

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Three ways to get an announcement posted on Locally Grown

By Griff Wigley, on December 12, 2011, 11:01 am

Got something to announce to the 500-1,000 people per day who visit Locally Grown? Read on.

While we’re primarily an issues-oriented blog, we also keep connected to the Northfield community by blogging about area people, events, organizations, and businesses.

So if you have something of interest to announce, consider these options:

Arrange for a photo opp
People who are willing to show up at one of my offices (tables at area coffeehouses) and have their photo taken can usually get me to blog their announcement for free. See examples here, here, and here and then contact me.
Become a member of Locally Grown
You can post 2-4 announcements/month for a measly $2.50/post. You email us the content, we create the blog post for you and publish it under your name. See recent membership posts here.
Become an advertiser on Locally Grown
A banner ad costs $4-7/week. Your ad can then link to your announcement on your website or Facebook page

If it’s a PSA (public service announcement), consider submitting it to Northfield.org, KYMN, Northfield Patch, and the Northfield News.

LoGro: social media, free subscriptions

By Griff Wigley, on December 11, 2011, 11:40 pm

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Slideshow and video of photos used to make the 2011 fall photo banners

By Griff Wigley, on November 6, 2011, 1:13 pm

I’ve put up four new fall photo banners at the top of LoGro: two are downtown-related (one exception), one is colleges-related, one is all-Waterford Bridge.

See the album of photos that I used to make the banners (large slideshow), or watch this high-def, one-minute video of the photos with music (Nocturne No. 2 In E Flat Major by Chopin). You can click the full-screen icon anytime while the video is playing:

If your bandwidth isn’t sufficient for the high-def version of the video, you can watch a standard version here.

LoGro: social media, free subscriptions

By Griff Wigley, on October 20, 2011, 11:29 pm

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Fall photo banners coming Real Soon Now

By Griff Wigley, on October 15, 2011, 11:33 pm

Now that this year’s brilliant fall colors are pretty much gone, I’ve started work on some new fall-themed photo banners to replace the summer-themed ones that rotate at the top of the LoGro’s web pages.

But I’m not done. Here’s a preview of two from Bridge Square:

LoGro was unavailable for an hour last night

By Griff Wigley, on October 4, 2011, 7:06 am

My apologies to those of you who tried to visit here last night between approximately 10-11 pm CDT and found yourselves instead at my business blog site.

LoGro is hosted on a subdirectory of my business web hosting account at Tiger Technologies. In the process of moving their sites to a new data center, my domain aliases were not updated simultaneously.

All is well now, though.

Sabbatical week #5: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on September 4, 2011, 8:57 am

current events I’m on a working LoGro sabbatical for the month of August (and now into the first week of September), so it’s up to you to help keep each other informed about whatever you think is important and optionally discuss it in the comment thread attached to this blog post.

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #4: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 29, 2011, 6:13 pm

current events I’m on a working LoGro sabbatical for the month of August, so it’s up to you to help keep each other informed about whatever you think is important and optionally discuss it in the comment thread attached to this blog post.

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #3: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 22, 2011, 6:35 am

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #2: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 8, 2011, 7:50 am

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #1: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 7:52 am

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

It’s August. Time for a LoGro working sabbatical. Here’s how you can help.

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 7:42 am

Last August, I took the month off for my LoGro ‘sabbatical.’ This year, however, I’ve got some ideas for a ‘working sabbatical.’

My plan is to put aside 99% of my usual daily blogging of Northfield-related issues, people, photos, organizations and fluff so that I can do some experimentation. Some of the experimentation will happen here on Locally Grown but some of it may occur elsewhere.

Rather than completely shutting down the blog and comments like last year, each week I’ll put up a What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week? blog post so that all of you can inform each other about whatever you think important and optionally discuss it in the comment thread attached to the post. Upcoming community events? Yep. Local, state or national issues. Yep. Links to interesting stuff? Sure. Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines.

I won’t be at my normal morning corner office at GBM, but you can generally follow my early morning whereabouts on Foursquare.

Locally Grown site traffic report for July, 2011

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 7:06 am

According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of July, 2011:

12,049 Unique Visitors
22,815 Visits
41,354 Pageviews

That’s virtually unchanged since April when I last blogged about traffic.

If you’d like to access our Google Analytics account to view more details, contact me.

LoGro: social media, free subscriptions

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 6:41 am

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LoGro’s parents return for their class reunion

By Griff Wigley, on June 18, 2011, 11:27 pm

Cameron Nordholm and Morgan Weiland were in Northfield this week for Carleton College’s Reunion week. They graduated in 2006, got married last summer, and are now living in Silicon Valley. We had lunch with them at the HideAway Coffeehouse & Winebar on Friday.

So who cares? Well, we do, since they’re the parents of Locally Grown, and like all good parents, they keep track of us and regularly visit. See all our LoGro blog posts tagged with Cameron Nordholm or tagged with Morgan Weiland.

And you can keep track of them via their blogs, here and here.

Taking a break on the North Shore

By Griff Wigley, on May 7, 2011, 1:11 pm

You may have noticed that my blogging has negligible and my comments non-existent for the past few days. I’m up along the North Shore of Lake Superior with a few other guys from Northfield. Yeah, I brought my camera. Be back Monday.

LoGro: social media, free subscriptions

By Griff Wigley, on May 2, 2011, 6:00 am

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Locally Grown’s membership plan: feedback and ideas needed

By Griff Wigley, on January 30, 2011, 2:12 pm

I’m interested in getting feedback on the Locally Grown membership plan, as I’m planning to have a membership drive during February.

What feedback do you have on what we currently offer? What ideas do you have for improving our offering?

Locally Grown (the blog and the comments) now available on the Kindle and the Nook eReaders

By Griff Wigley, on January 7, 2011, 7:08 am

eRreaders are hot, especially the Kindle and the Nook. (We’re now a two-Kindle household.)

For a small monthly fee, you can now subscribe to Locally Grown on your Kindle and get the blog posts, the comments, or both:

If you have a Nook, you can install an application called NookFeed and subscribe to our blog’s RSS feed or the comments’ RSS feed for free.

Free subscriptions to Locally Grown

By Griff Wigley, on December 19, 2010, 8:43 am

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Comments removed by the Locally Grown moderator

By Griff Wigley, on December 11, 2010, 4:15 pm

I’ve removed several comments, including my own intervention comments, from the tail end of the wind turbine discussion today. The exchanges were not relevant to the topic and in my judgment, some of them violated our guidelines. The whole thing detracted from the generally excellent conversation that occurred in that comment thread over several weeks (170+ comments).

If anyone wants to comment about my decision or otherwise discuss Locally Grown’s discussion guidelines, this is the place to do it.

Fall photo banners added to header

By Griff Wigley, on November 7, 2010, 12:26 pm

I know I’m over a month late but I finally loaded up three autumn-themed photo banners for our Locally Grown header. They’re all all macro photos that I took around downtown Northfield last fall.

Technical glitch challenges philosophy major

By Griff Wigley, on October 8, 2010, 6:56 pm

We’ve had a plugin glitch the past day or two that generating an error message that is hard to appreciate for a philosophy major like me:

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/wi/wigleyandassociates.com/locallygrownnorthfield/wp-includes/kses.php on line 1117

I know, I know, philosophy majors should be equipped to handle second arguments for right or wrong datatypes, so I do apologize.

Rest assured, I’ve got the techies working on it. In the meantime, please do your best to ignore it as the rest of the site seems to be functioning.

Take the Locally Grown straw poll on our features and content

By Griff Wigley, on September 23, 2010, 7:33 am

We’d like your feedback on our features and content to help us plan and improve.

Please take this straw poll to let us know what you think. The 22 multiple choice questions should take 2 minutes or so to complete. There are also several places where you can comment and make suggestions.

We’ll publish the results here before Oct. 1.

I’ve closed comments on this blog post. If you’d like to discuss the poll, chime in on last week’s blog post, Help us design a straw poll to get feedback.

What’s up with the Northfield Fire Department? (55)
- kiffi summa: Our mothers consider the ‘bunched panties’ remark too squalid to pass either their sainted lips, or those of their darling daughters… and seriously doubt whether it was said during your father’s time!
- Jane Moline: Griff: you really didn’t know my mother and how do you even know if I wear panties?
- Griff Wigley: Jane/Kiffi, I did some family of origin research and it turns out your mothers actually said “A stitch in time saves nine” and “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” about 3-4 times more often than...
- kiffi summa: Jane: Both our Mom’s were smart, and they knew about the problems with “borrowing trouble” i.e don’t stir up problems that are non existent; there’s enough current problems to deal with, and even some of...
- Jane Moline: I can’t believe I have to bring up my mother’s advice: DON’T GO BORROWING TROUBLE! If some women want to join the fire department in Northfield, we must be afraid that our fire department MIGHT respond like North...
To India and Back: Tickets on sale now for Rotary’s Youth Exchange fundraiser (2)
- Vicki Dilley: How many lives can we even begin to count that have touched by the Youth Exchange program? Northfield has been involved in Youth Exchange since 1969 when we hosted our first student…since then 100′s of High School...
- Tom Durkin: This event supports one of the crown jewels of the Northfield Rotary Club – the Youth Exchange Program. Northfield can be proud that we send out more than fifteen students annually for year abroad study programs. We also host several...
Shannon Hyland-Tassava reading Feb. 15 at Monkey See Monkey Read (1)
- Griff Wigley: Shannon has a blog titled Mama in Wonderland: notes on the chaos and delight of mothering two small girls.
Northfield needs more beaches (5)
- john george: Kathie- I knew I was sticking my neck out on that one!
- Kathie Galotti: Geez John. Don’t get Griff restarted on the geese!
- john george: Yes, more beaches would certainly accomodate more geese. We have to remember to be waterfowl friendly.
- Susan Hvistendahl: I totally agree with you re the need for more beaches in Northfield, having just returned from a week in Puerto Vallarta. Could have had rum punches there but….well, after we visited a local tequila distillery and got to...
- Bright Spencer: Oh, you both look so happy! Thanks for sharing. More pics please!
CRWP photo contest results (10)
- kiffi summa: Griff: whither goest thy right arm if it starts to “whither” (sic) ? sorry; couldn’t resist… stuck at home with a bad knee provides way too much time on computer!
- Bright Spencer: i’ve been looking thru a site, crazyguyonabike.com that has lots of journals and photos from around the world.
- jane fenton: Congrats, Griff! That’s my son Cliff in the orange hat. He’s revamped the recycling bin prototype. You should see it!
- Griff Wigley: Don, I’ll keep ping pong in mind. I’d hate to have my right arm start to whither from a lack of racquetball. In the meantime, I’m trying to excite as many Northfielders as I can about mountain biking. I’ll...
- john george: Griff- Iris will have to work real hard to keep you in focus on everything else. I shutter to think where this could go.
Something cool is coming soon to the old Digs space on Division (5)
- Griff Wigley: Name: The Local Joint Description: A handmade and vintage collective in Northfield, MN. COLLECTING.CREATING.COLLABORAT ING. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheLoc alJoint Nfld News: Store to open in former ‘digs’ space
- David Beimers: Hmmm… fans? air conditioners? ice cream?
- Jessica Paxton: I know. But I don’t wanna spill the (cool) beans!
- jane fenton: a kite store?
- Myrna Mibus: I know! At least I’m pretty sure I know. But I’ll wait to see if someone else has a guess before saying more.
Author Ed Conlon helps the Wigleys survive a power outage on Vieques (1)
- Bright Spencer: nice waterscape shot!
Northfield coworking gathering is Tuesday, Jan. 31 (2)
- Megan Tsui: Edward, Sorry you weren’t able to attend. We’ll be posting notes from the meeting on the NEC website and if you send me your email, I’ll make sure you get a copy! If you (or anyone else!) would like to chat about it...
- Edward Smith: I wanted to attend this, but was unable. Does anyone know if there will be a summary posted anywhere?
Are Northfield schools helping to make students climate literate? (1)
- Kathie Galotti: My kid had a pretty decent AP Environmental Science class 2 years ago….he’s not a great math/science student, but this one got him interested in at least knowing enough science to create good policies. I remember...
Even if you exercise, it may not matter if you sit too much (4)
- Paul Zorn: A few years ago one of my daughters spent a year working in Copenhagen, largely in an office setting. All desks in her office could be raised or lowered to permit either standing or sitting positions. I have no idea whether such...
- Griff Wigley: In today’s Strib: Office-dwellers stand up to ‘sitting disease’ Dr. James Levine has reviewed the statistics: One in three Minnesota adults is either diabetic or pre-diabetic, and one in four is obese. And he thinks...
Can hockey, the sport I used to love, be saved? (31)
- Bright Spencer: The All Pro Game last Sunday between the AFC and the NFC was so enjoyable. The stess, the anger, the anxiety all gone…well I didn’t watch all of it, as I rarely do watch an entire game, usually just the beginning and...
- Griff Wigley: Today’s Strib: Hockey safety goal expanded to youth In an unprecedented mid-year change, Minnesota Hockey is toughening the penalties for checking from behind and boarding. The change will affect 40,000 hockey players in the...
- Bright Spencer: I like hockey and all sports very much. I was a star basketball player in my day. I don’t remember anyone suffering any major injuries in all my hs and college days. I feel certain that coach’s know who does what and...
Public humiliation, put downs, harsh treatment: Mayor Rossing & Councilors Vohs, Pownell unhappy with their colleagues (70)
- john george: You are correct. That is why I didn’t allow my children to attack the character of their siblings just to support their position. There do need to be some kind of ground rules in any discussion so as to keep individual...
- kiffi summa: The issue could be considered to be: what is “conflict”, and what are two sides of a discussion… see #33 re: the Mayor’s admonition to Peter Dahlen at the joint Council/ChartComm meeting. I don’t see how...
- john george: Kiffi- This is a good article, and I agree with most of it. Just thinking about my kids in their youth, there was always some conflict between them, but our goal as parents wasn’t to force them into some weiner form but to help...
- kiffi summa: A very interesting article in the Jan.30th New Yorker magazine on the nature of the dynamics of creative discussion; it’s entitled “Groupthink; the brainstorming myth”. Based on studies done by a psych professor at...
- Griff Wigley: Kiffi/Kathie, I didn’t have that reaction. But I’ve put up a new blog post to discuss it and everything else related to the Fire Department so let’s shift the discussion there.
The pros and cons of having Council wards and deciding about it now (15)
- Kathie Galotti: I read Betsey’s blog and, like most of Betsey’s blog entries, found it well-written and making a very good point. Though I agree that geographic districts aren’t the only way to represent different constituencies,...
- john george: Griff- The NN editorial presents the difference between geographic representation and ideological representation. Right now, the wards establish geographic representation. With this approach, depending upon the voter turnout, a person...
- kiffi summa: I hope that people will use the link here on LG to read the current posting by Councilor Buckheit on her blog, re: wards versus all at-large, and take the opportunity to comment. Once again, the NFNews has not given a very well...
- Griff Wigley: Nfld News editorial: Keep the current ward system intact
- Sean Hayford Oleary: In any case, this issue doesn’t seem like it needs to be another opportunity to dis/agree with the current council. Regardless of how focused on the downtown (or not) they are, it’s clear this change would not...
Ice circles revisited and a software/app company discovered (1)
- Brenton Balvin: Those are pretty cool.
Art plus exercise: Gretchen Falck is having a Forza! open house on Nov. 8 (1)
- Griff Wigley: In today’s NY Times: Turning to Kettlebells to Ease Back Pain Kettlebells, cast-iron weights that have been used for centuries to train Russian soldiers and athletes, appear to be a promising therapy for back and neck pain, new...
Help me Rhonda, help me get you outta my heart (1)
- Sandy Vesledahl: UPDATE ON RHONDA: We are very happy to report that Rhonda was adopted over the weekend by a local family. Rhonda’s new mom is a Family Counselor and Rhonda will be going to her office with her and helping with her clients. So...
Aldsworth Building looks ideal as a coworking space. Are there others? (12)
- Megan Tsui: Griff, The NEC is moving forward with the idea of a non-profit Coworking Incubator/Accelerator space. Megan
- Megan Tsui: What do you think? Come to the Community Dialogue and tell us! January 31st from 2 to 4 pm at the Archer House lower level conference room. Share your ideas, thoughts, and dreams about a Coworking Incubator/Accelerator space in...
Downtown Northfield hit with another graffiti outbreak (10)
- kiffi summa: I would hope the City’s Historic Preservation Commission would explore this option, and the appropriateness/allowability for use on properties within the Historic District. Thanks, Jim.
- Jim Haas: I was reading a story by Porter Fox about his visit to Copenhagen. He mentioned in passing that the city is vigilant about removing graffiti using high-pressure washers with ice crystals as a mild abrasive. I did a little rudimentary...
Randy Jennings excoriates the City Council for its economic development practices (42)
- kiffi summa: The LWV observer reports are meant to be a summary of actions taken, not a ‘blow by blow’ transcript. This is the reason that anyone deeply interested should watch the meeting for themself, if they want a full...

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