January 9, 2009 – 5:03 pm
Melissa Reeder, Northfield’s Information Technology Department manager, has set a goal to begin uploading streaming videos of the City Council meetings to the Internet in 2010, so long as there is money in the budget for the $8,000-$10,000 upgrade.
With streaming videos, image files flow to a video player on a Web site in a continuous [...]
January 6, 2009 – 5:55 pm
I surprised Mayor Mary Rossing in her store Present Perfect this morning with my video camera. I mostly asked her questions that had to do with Monday night’s City Council meeting, which you can read a bit about here. We touched upon her changes in meeting procedure, her tactics on facilitating meetings and her outlook [...]
December 26, 2008 – 6:34 am
On Saturday mornings, the Goodbye Blue Monday (GBM) is like that popular St. Louis restaurant made famous by Yogi Berra. Here’s proof from last week.
Click play to watch. 20 seconds.
December 18, 2008 – 9:33 am
Greenvale Township meeting on 12/16 from Bonnie Obremski on Vimeo
Brian O’Connell, Northfield community development director, and Joel Walinski, interim city administrator, discussed the remaining details of a proposed annexation agreement with Greenvale Township’s three supervisors for more than an hour on Tuesday night.
In the accompanying video, O’Connell and Walinski are on the left side [...]
December 13, 2008 – 11:04 am
Aron Feingold, Matt Hart, Myles Radtke, Courtney Madowitz and Nick Rue are students in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. They produced this 7-minute video titled Carleton Conservatives.
December 13, 2008 – 11:01 am
Chelsea Ronsse, Lauren Knoche and Nikoleta Rukaj are students in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. They produced this 4-minute video titled A New Kind of Charter School. (It’s about ARTech – the Northfield School of Arts and Technology.)
December 13, 2008 – 10:57 am
Vivyan Tran, Sung Hyo Kim, Logan Nash and Mackenzie Zimmer are students in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. They produced this 6-minute video titled Representative Journalism: The New Community Reporter.
December 12, 2008 – 5:46 am
Sam Benshoof, Briana Cain, Ryeon Corsi and Esther Pak are students in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. They produced this 6-minute video titled Hard times on Division Street.
December 12, 2008 – 5:44 am
Dan Sugarman, Allyson Herbst, Evan Haine-Roberts, Anne O’Gara and Vincent Poturica are students in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. They produced this 10-minute video titled Home Grown: Eating Local in Northfield.
December 9, 2008 – 9:00 pm
The Representative Journalism Project founded in Northfield, Minn. could see more nationwide support after project collaborators Bonnie Obremski and Bill Densmore facilitated a discussion about the initiative last week at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. The noontime “Lunchstorm” session was a part of a three-day conference centered around another experimental project called Information [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:25 am
Main Street Moravian Church meeting on drug use in Northfield from Bonnie Obremski on Vimeo.
Note: This is an edited video of the question and answer portion of Sunday’s meeting at the Main Street Moravian Church. I edited out images of the undercover sheriff’s deputy and any audience member. I also shortened the length of some [...]
November 16, 2008 – 7:47 am
Here’s a one-minute video clip of auctioneer Ed Kuhlman doing his thing at last week’s Northfield Historical Society auction.
November 6, 2008 – 6:23 pm
Northfield Police Chief Mark Taylor spoke with me this week to answer some questions about the ongoing investigation of suspected heroin dealing in the city. Unfortunately, my wireless microphone gave me some trouble and the sound quality isn’t what it usually is. The video is 12 minutes, 28 seconds long. The pauses in the [...]
October 28, 2008 – 6:54 pm
The following video is about 1.5 minutes long. It shows portions of a press conference in the Rice County District Court that took place on Monday, Oct. 27 from 2:30 p.m. to about 3:15 p.m. There were representatives from the Faribault Daily News, KYMN Radio and Carleton College and about a half-dozen other people in [...]
October 24, 2008 – 6:04 pm
Developer John Mathern talks economy from Bonnie Obremski on Vimeo.
John Mathern, CEO of Mendota Homes, met with me for about an hour two weeks ago shortly after First National Bank took ownership of one of Mendota’s downtown properties. In the video, Mathern references the The Crossing condominium project. The video is about one minute long.
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