December 25, 2008 – 7:57 am
Hope y’all have a very Merry Christmas today. We’ll be back with goodies tomorrow.
December 16, 2008 – 8:46 am
I wrote a post last year about shopping local for the holidays, which yielded some excellent ideas.
Northfield is such a great place for holiday shopping - our local independent retailers have such cool, innovative, retro, practical, and quirky stuff. We’ve had lots of conversation here about shopping local, and hows and whys and pros [...]
December 6, 2008 – 7:40 am
Kathy Cooper, Rice County Safe Communities, alerted me to the new DWI task force, called the MOD-Squad (“Modifying Driving Behavior”).
Griff, as you probably remember from last year, Rice County was number 11 of the top 15 deadliest counties for alcohol-related deaths and injuries. Unfortunately, we are on the list again… There will be a briefing [...]
September 23, 2008 – 8:10 pm
A Carleton College student fell down a stairwell in Myers Hall just before 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Mark Taylor, Northfield Police Chief, said on Monday.
Taylor said emergency responders brought David Hecht, 18, of Knoxville, Tenn., to Northfield Hospital first. Hecht then transferred to Hennepin County Medical Center.
On Tuesday, medical center officials listed Hecht in satisfactory [...]
September 11, 2008 – 8:25 am
At least one Division Street merchant is experiencing disappointment and some financial hardship because of an outdoor seating ordinance city councilmen approved in May, and she is hoping the councilmen will consider amending it before next summer.
Eileen Seeley said on Monday her customers were disappointed when she hauled her outdoor chairs and tables back inside [...]
What is the toughest question Northfielders can think of to ask Mayor Lee Lansing regarding his announcement to seek reelection? Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, I will be spending a few minutes with the mayor and record a short video interview on the subject.
(I saw this tonight on the way to the Contented Cow and couldn’t help myself.)
I’m sure Griff will have plenty of pics in this year’s “Taste of Northfield” album after tonight, but I wanted to post live from the scene - because I can. Come on down and join the fun, it’s going on till 11.
Northfield City Administrator Al Roder publishes a memo to the mayor and city council each week on Friday. It summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are published and archived in PDF form at the bottom of his web page.
See his Friday memo for this past week and then [...]
Eastbound traffic into Northfield is being re-routed north just west of St. Olaf right now…
April 19, 2008 – 11:45 am
I continue to work through my “to-read” pile. Most recently, it was “Coney Island’s Bumpy Ride”, by Eric Wills, in the July/August 2007 Preservation magazine.
In 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and other city officials, created the not-for-profit Coney Island Development Corporation (CIDC) and appropriated $85 million for renovation of the neighborhood. Thor Equities, a for-profit real [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:15 am
After reading my post on the current housing market, friend of LG Margit Johnson dropped off a copy of an article in the March Atlantic Monthly for me to read. I finally got around to it.
In “The Next Slum?”, Chris Leinberger contends that “the story of vacant suburban homes and declining suburban neighborhoods did not [...]
Minnesota artist Bob Dylan was awarded America’s highest honor for music, literature and print journalism, the Pulitzer Prize. He received the recognition for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power”.
As most Minnesotans are aware, Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth on May 24th, [...]
There’s been some buzzing in Basecamp, and at least a couple of comments on Locally Grown, about an article in the March 31st issue of The New Yorker. It’s titled “Out of Print” and was written by Eric Alterman. I drew the short straw and agreed to write a post about it. To oversimplify, it’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