August 1, 2007 – 11:43 pm
Ross and I hit the fluff pretty hard at the opening of today’s show. Something about the Twins losing/winning streak, Jerry Garcia, and facial hair (click photos to enlarge) has sent Ross over the edge on the Locally Grown blog this week and it carried over to the podcast.
Tracy’s out of town this [...]
See the album of 20 photos from some of tonight’s pre-4th festivities on Bridge Square… or view this slideshow:
And here’s a 2 min 30 sec video clip of Down Lo’s final number and the dancing it inspired.
Ultimate Fighting (aka ‘mixed martial arts’ and ‘cage fighting’) comes to Northfield on Friday night. It arrives just in time to beat the legislation that goes into effect on Sunday. See this Strib article, Legislature gives Boxing Commission ultimate authority, and this recent column by the Strib’s Katherine Kersten: The Ultimate Fighter: Is there [...]
I was downtown St. Paul a couple of weeks ago and noticed the sidewalk dining structures on E. 5th St. between Wabasha and St. Peter. The width of the lane between the curb and the dining structures is less than 4 feet. I don’t know what code is.
In May, 2006, the NDDC hosted [...]
The Northfield Adult Community Band kicked off its summer series of concerts on Bridge Square on Thursday night. They’ll be back the next three Thursday nights. Right photo: painter Fred Somers doing his thing, live. Click photos to enlarge.
Kiplinger personal finance magazine recently came out with an article on “The Best Cities for Every Stage of Your Life”.
These stages were defined as Singles (25-29); Mid-Professionals (married, no kids, or single, 30-44); Families (married, with kids, through 64); Empty-Nesters (married, no kids or single, 45-64); and Retirees (65 and above). Cost-of-living factors were weighted [...]
Got plans to attend a civic- or entertainment-related event this week in the Northfield area? Attach a comment.
If you’ve already promoted an event on Northfield.org or in the Northfield News or on your own site/weblog, then your comment should contain a link to the permalink of that post/page.
(I blogged about this calendar idea here.)
Experiment time. As I mentioned earlier, we’re getting more requests to promote upcoming community events here on Locally Grown, and we’re generally inclined to not use the blog for it.
But since we do have lots of conversations happening here, I thought it might be helpful and interesting to provide a way for people to conversationally [...]
A preview of tonight’s Girls Night Out finale at the Grand.
FYI, I’ll do my best to have photos of the entire evening’s festivities (PG and otherwise) posted here on Locally Grown by 8:30 am Saturday morning.
We have a rule here on Locally Grown that we don’t use the blog to promote community events, as we don’t want to compete with Northfield.org. We routinely ignore this rule when we’re involved with the event somehow.
After rigorous tryouts, Ross Currier and I are among the men selected to perform in a grand finale [...]
April 23, 2007 – 10:07 pm
Joe McGowan, Northfield High School senior and Union of Youth youth board member, appeared on our show today, talking about the proposed skate plaza that the Skatepark Coalition is working to bring to Northfield. (The Skatepark Coalition includes the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI), the Northfield Union of Youth (The Key), the Mayor’s Youth [...]
The snow has melted, the sun is rising higher in the sky, it must be…
…skate board season.
I’ve blogged about it previously, Ruth Amerman had a guest column about it in Saturday’s Northfield News, and we’re going to talk about it on today’s podcast…
…the Skate Park, at least in concept, has returned!
So, tune in to the [...]
Iowa’s Zach Johnson won the Masters golf tournament today. The DesMoines Register reported:
Johnson said with a cracking voice as he talked with CBS near the 18th green that the victory meant even more on Easter, as he credited Jesus and his late grandfather for helping him steel nerves.
Normally, when athletes give credit to God after [...]
December 28, 2006 – 4:35 pm
Strib columnist Sid Hartman writes today:
Former Gopher Mark Setterstrom, who sat out the first 10 games with the Rams, has developed into a left guard with a great future and has started the past five games.
In case you’ve been asleep for the past decade, Mark grew up here in Northfield, played high school football here [...]
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