Northfielder Tom Hayes, owner of The Cruiser liquor store in Burnsville, was the host of the post-Art Crawl party on Friday night at the Ole Store. Read the first paragraph of the flyer for details on what might transpire with the store. The owner of the building, Lavern Rippley, was also at the party.
That’s right, I had heard a recent rumor that this immensely popular part of the annual Arts a la Carte event had a brush with extinction this year, only to be rescued in the 11th hour by a group of young artists that included a kid by the name of Phoebe Currier.
Hmmm, that name sounds [...]
April 12, 2007 – 11:01 am
Sometimes my colleague, Tracy Davis, tosses tomatoes. However, now and then, she serves up some brilliantly spiced Salse di Pomodoro. The later pitch would be the case earlier this week.
Tracy sent me a link to a site that points to a potential economic development tool…the creative class. The assorted analyses tend to focus on rural [...]
About 100 yards after the entrance to Carleton’s Lower Arb from the top of the hill on Highway 19, there’s a sign on a path to the east that points visitors to the Marc von Trapp memorial. Click photos to enlarge. The plaque on the rock reads:
“The universe is full of magical [...]
While on a walk yesterday in the Upper Arb, I noticed this memorial near the rec center. (Click photos to enlarge.)
Text on the plaque in the center photo:
In memory of those members of the 70th Army Air Force Technical Training Detachment (AADTTD), stationed at Carleton College in 1943, who gave their lives for [...]
March 19, 2007 – 12:41 pm
My colleagues, Tracy “Queen of the Dark Fiber” Davis and Griff “Ultra High-Speed to my Condo” Wigley, have been suggesting, loudly and vigorously, for sometime that the key to economic development in Northfield is high-speed internet access. Northfield has the potential for this high-tech utility they say, and we only need to harness the potential [...]
February 14, 2007 – 7:05 pm
St. Paul film director Ali Selim was at the Southgate Theater here in Northfield on Monday, introducing and then discussing the feature film Sweet Land for an audience of mostly St. Olaf college students as part of a writing class. (I got wind of it from Curt Benson who got wind of it from [...]
January 22, 2007 – 12:01 am
Another bad weekend for US armed forces in Iraq. See this NYTimes news story about 27 more deaths. And then I saw David and Pat Allen’s letter to the editor in the Northfield News about how their daughter’s fiance has had his National Guard tour of duty in Iraq extended once again.
It occurred to me [...]
January 12, 2007 – 2:41 pm
Last week (January 3rd) the Wall Street Journal had an article by John J. Miller (a writer for the National Review) that discussed the past, present and future purposes of public libraries. It was titled “Should Libraries’ Target Audience Be Cheapskates with Mass-Market Tastes?” (gosh, even I wouldn’t try to get away with such a [...]
January 12, 2007 – 5:15 am
I’ve closed the Jan 5th straw poll on ethanol. Not a bad response: 76 votes tallied on the question: “Do you support or oppose the proposed ethanol plant in Bridgewater Township?”
# Strongly oppose (58%)# Strongly support (14%)# Somewhat support (11%)# Not yet informed enough (9%)# Somewhat oppose (8%)
See the current Northfield News poll on Iraq.
January 8, 2007 – 12:45 am
Grezzo Gallery had their opening night for the scrapbooking exhibit on Friday night and it featured Wes Thomsen and his new movie, Scrapped “…a bold docu-drama diving head first into the world of scrapbooking and its explosive growth in the last decade.”
I found out that Wes is a blogger and a motorcyclist (his [...]
December 31, 2006 – 11:53 am
The January 2007 issue of the Northfield Entertainment Guide is out. And it’s got a major interactivity upgrade. Click the image in the center to see a snapshot from p. 4 of the current explaining how it all works. According to publisher Rob Shanilec:
The downloadable Northfield Entertainment Guide is now interactive! As a convenience to [...]
December 29, 2006 – 5:27 pm
My family and I recently watched “Thank You for Smoking”. It was a Christmas gift that we received at the big (28 people) gathering we had over at Jennifer and Bill’s home.
In case you haven’t heard, it’s a humorous (but serious) look at a lobbyist for the cigarette industry. Nick Naylor, the cigarette lobbyist, has [...]
December 28, 2006 – 5:25 pm
Last Saturday at 9 am, KYMN Radio 1080 AM aired a paid programming call-in show for Prairies to Power featuring Dave Fellon.
It was the second show in an ongoing series. KYMN’s host was Dusty Budd and you may recognize the voices of some of the callers. I got permission from Fellon to post the audio [...]
December 28, 2006 – 9:39 am
Here’s a linked snapshot of a Google map (hybrid of satellite and streets). The proposed ethanol plant is the area to the south of Stephanie Henriksen’s property(pushpin). Zoom in and out for more detail. Below is Stephanie’s house. See her waving at us?
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