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 [...]
I’ve been out of town, so this may be old news to some, but when I went downtown to mail a letter, this is what I saw. Anyone know anything about the design of the ramp, or when it might be completed?
Technorati : accessibility, downtown
The online magazine Grist has a great little article/post about “What Bike-Friendly Looks Like” which, in addition to detailed information about how more progressive cities treat this issue, brought my attention to a visually inspiring photo gallery which graphically illustrates ways a community can incorporate multiple means of mobility into their infrastructure.
I wonder if we’d [...]
Left photo: Linda Barck (center) departs her morning post at the James Gang HideAway next week. She’ll be going to work for a company called Healthsense, a spinoff of Redwing Technologies where her husband Terry Barck works. I took this photo yesterday morning as she was training her replacements, Lindsey Saunders (left) and Anna [...]
January 29, 2007 – 9:50 pm
The discussion is continuing in the Downtown retail: struggling, thriving, searching message thread (now up to 86 comments as of tonight).
And with more downtown-related discussion on tap at next week’s NDDC downtown forum, the three of us tried to make sense of it all today.
We failed miserably, and got a little grouchy.
Click the photo to [...]
January 18, 2007 – 12:14 pm
More news of small businesses in Northfield… this time, downtown. Click the photos to enlarge.
Northfield Dance Academy has moved into the River Park Mall. A couple doors down, Quad’s Bar and Grill is now the name of the former Dad’s restaurant.
On the west side on Water St, Home Team (sport cards and games) [...]
December 6, 2006 – 11:50 pm
In 2002, I took a dozen photos of Winter Walk and posted them on N.org. In 2004, I posted about 100. Tomorrow, I’m going for a record. So be there or Dan Bergeson, shown on the right at the NDDC forum on Tues with his “There are hundreds of reasons to shop downtown [...]
November 12, 2006 – 10:53 am
Collegeville Communities President Colleen Hollinger Petters was such a good sport about my faux news piece that I decided to do her a favor. A couple weeks ago, I blogged the new view of downtown Northfield from the condo that Robbie and I are buying on the north edge of downtown.
That’s not the only ‘new view’ [...]
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 17, 2006 – 10:01 am
I saw Jim Herreid and Ross Currier in front of the former Bagel Brothers shop this morning and asked them if the rumors were true that Hooters, Victoria’s Secret, and Fantasy Gifts were the new tenants in these three soon-to-be-occupied downtown Northfield storefronts. They both acknowledged to knowing the truth but refused to [...]
October 17, 2006 – 9:34 am
On Saturday, my wife Robbie and I got a tour of Northfield Crossing on the northwest edge of downtown Northfield since we’re buying a condo there. Click photos to enlarge and see more photos of our tour in this album.
October 15, 2006 – 9:18 am
Oh, the barbs and arrows that I suffer…
Although I told Griff that I was going to be out of town for the most recent podcast, he forgot that small detail and joined Tracy in slandering my good name, adding insipid music to the show, and, perhaps most offensive of all, putting a red “x” through [...]
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 [...]
September 30, 2006 – 10:39 am
Southgate Cinema and St. Olaf College today announced a strategic partnership for next year’s Spelling Bee competition for the Friends of Northfield Public Library. Under the terms of the agreement, this year’s winning faculty team of Paul Zorn, Maggie Odell, and Roz Eaton-Neeb will take a leave of absence from their positions at the [...]
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