December 28, 2008 – 10:06 pm
Allyson Herbst, a student in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College, has written a piece titled A Better Northfield Starts With Flowers, Group Says (PDF - full text below).
A Better Northfield Starts With Flowers, Group Says
By Allyson Herbst
Northfield residents last summer couldn’t help but notice a striking change that bloomed outside the Northfield [...]
December 16, 2008 – 10:26 pm
Note: This is a story in progress. Please see my bulleted questions in green and help me move the story forward. I would like commenters to write the question(s) they are addressing into their post. You might want to join the existing conversation on this topic. I’m excited to read about what people have to [...]
December 16, 2008 – 8:02 am
It’s great to see more and more people putting up photo albums of community events and better yet, embedding them in blog posts.
Here’s a PicasaWeb photo album that’s embedded in Alex Beeby’s blog post about last Sunday’s 4th Anniversary party at Just Food Co-op.
Here’s a Flickr album that’s embedded in Doug Bratland’s blog post [...]
December 14, 2008 – 11:47 am
Just Food Co-op is having their members-only 4th Anniversary Celebration today, 7-9 pm at the store.
See the album of 72 photos from the Co-op’s grand opening in December, 2004 or this slideshow.
See this album of 50 photos from the preview meeting held in April of 2004 at the First UCC.
And see the album [...]
December 14, 2008 – 10:21 am
Yesterday Northfield Citizens Online board member Rob Hardy added a post titled Citizen Journalism to his Rough Draft blog:
Since its inception in the 1990s, Northfield.org has evolved into more of an electronic community bulletin board than an outlet for the reporting of local news. A few years ago, Griff [...]
December 9, 2008 – 6:30 am
The 7th Annual Jingle Bell Run/Walk will be held this Saturday, Dec. 13. “100% of registration fees will be going to Thursday’s Table” according to my sources.
See the photo albums from 2005, 2006, and 2007… and this slideshow of the latter.
December 2, 2008 – 10:25 am
Matt Hart, a student in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College, has written a piece titled Carrying a Torch for Kids Who Dream of College (PDF - full text below).
Carrying a Torch for Kids Who Dream of College
By Matt Hart
In 2001, two third-grade girls from Northfield had a dream.
They [...]
November 23, 2008 – 11:31 am
Rick Estenson, co-chair of Kids Voting Northfield (sponsored by the Northfield Rotary Club and WINGS), sent me the results of this year’s election. See the PDF or the Excel spreadsheet.
Co-chair Virginia Kaczmarek sent me these photos.
See Jane McWilliams’ blog post on Northfield.org for more info and [...]
November 22, 2008 – 7:46 am
Once again, the Northfield Community Action Center and the Civic Engagement Program in the Center for Experiential Learning at St. Olaf teamed up on National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
One of their awareness strategies has been to camp out overnight in a public space in Northfield, as they did in 2006 and again in 2007.
On [...]
November 18, 2008 – 11:37 am
Nate Jacobi, Assistant Director for Civic Engagement at St. Olaf’s Center for Experiential Learning, has alerted us to their Google map mashup “highlighting over 50 Northfield-area Community Organizations (nonprofits, schools and city/government agencies).”
Attach a comment if you see any problems with it or if there are resources that should be included.
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November 16, 2008 – 8:26 pm
Amy Gohdes-Luhman, pastor of the Main Street Moravian Church, organized and hosted a town hall forum on heroin today. Panelists included:
Dr. Charles Reznikoff – Addiction Medicine Specialist, Opiate Agonist Therapy (OAT) Clinic - Northfield Hospital
Sarah Shippy – Program Director, MEd LICSW, Omada Behavioral Health Services
Scott Robinson – Sheriff’s Deputy, Rice County [...]
November 16, 2008 – 11:57 am
Coordinators Julie Bubser and Zach Pruitt are now bloggers at the newly revamped Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) website.
Right photo: Mary Nelson, Julie Bubser, Zach Pruitt, and Curt Benson at a recent WordPress training session at the Bittersweet Eatery Tea Room. (Mary and Curt will be working on the new Northfield Mayor’s Task Force [...]
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