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 [...]
February 20, 2007 – 7:34 am
In this week’s show, Ross and I interview the new Executive Director of the Northfield Arts Guild, Michael Fallon.
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Click play to listen. 29 minutes.
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January 12, 2007 – 7:14 am
Left: On page 3 of this month’s Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG), local businesses that display local artists on their walls are listed. Click image to enlarge the screenshot.Right: Fred Somers with some of his paintings currently on display at the James Gang HideAway. Fred’s got a class starting next week, “Instruction in oil and [...]
January 8, 2007 – 2:39 pm
Thank God, I’m not alone in the universe… There’s at least one other human being out there who thinks like I do. Witness the new design for a cell tower in Oceanside, CA.
Now, if only we had some of our local artists working on new designs for the wind [...]
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 [...]
November 15, 2006 – 4:31 pm
We start the show by dissecting last week’s election results and a few other issues/happenings of the past week.
Our guest was Phillip Spensley, a member of the of ArtsPlan06 task force that’s drafted a report — with many recommendations — titled A Strategic Vision for the Arts and Culture in Northfield (PDF) that’s on its way to the Northfield City [...]
October 17, 2006 – 10:40 am
I was told that Led Zeppelin was performing this Thursday at The Grand but now I see Ross’s post on the NDDC blog that it’s actually Reve du Faun.
I was planning on attending with my sons Graham, Collin and Tyson decked out in our ready-made headbanger’s ball outfits (click photo to enlarge). Anyone have some [...]
October 10, 2006 – 4:24 pm
I was in North Hampton, Massachusetts this past weekend, brunching at a diner with my oldest daughter. We were on a fairly tight schedule, as is too often the case in our busy lives, so I didn’t have hardly a moment to do the tourist thing.
However, I did notice a MOVIE THEATER IN THEIR HISTORIC [...]
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