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 [...]
April 13, 2007 – 12:44 pm
Doug Grove at Grove Landscaping is now blogging on the website that was designed for him by Michael Blaha at Organic Arts. I’ve been doing a little blog coaching to help him get started, and already he’s proven to be a natural born blogger. And he’s a community-oriented guy, too, as evidenced by this [...]
February 20, 2007 – 9:22 am
We hit 1/3 of the votes needed on today’s downtown party so I’ve not revealed 1/3 of the information on who, what, when, where, how, why.
Huh?
See the end of the comment thread from the original blog post, A party. Somewhere downtown. Soon. Are you hip enough? Take the poll.
February 9, 2007 – 7:47 am
My daughter Gilly snapped these photos Wednesday when Booker paid a visit to Grandpa’s Farm. Click to enlarge. See the entire photo album here. And see more about Booker’s neighborhood stops on the library’s kid blog.
Jim “Grandpa” Rossow on guitar.
Diana Tallent, Booker’s driver, reading stories.
January 27, 2007 – 11:39 pm
First National Bank Northfield should be breaking ground soon on their branch facility across from Target.
See their new branch web page for more details.
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) [...]
January 16, 2007 – 8:01 pm
While the discussion rages (36 comments and counting) in last week’s blog post titled Downtown retail: struggling, thriving, searching, new stores keep opening along Hwy. 3.
A Sociale Make & Take Gourmet franchise (”Make it at our place. Bake it at yours!“) is due to open in Feb. in Heritage Square, next door to US [...]
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 10, 2007 – 12:02 am
I had lunch with my daughter Gilly on Tuesday at the James Gang HideAway and for dessert, we cashed in two of my “buy ten, get one free” punch cards for two large foo-foo coffee drinks. Yum.
I’m a card-carrying fool for these promos, as you can see on the right: The Cow (buy 8 [...]
December 28, 2006 – 11:21 am
I contacted Bob Kuyper and asked him for some details on the Las Delicias closing that I blogged about last week. He emailed me back an attached Word doc, which I’ve converted to a PDF and uploaded here.
FYI, the Kuypers are partners in the building with Jeffrey Reiland, the author of the letter to the [...]
December 27, 2006 – 7:52 am
Kjerland Studio has a new (stained glass) door and sign at its entrance on Division at 3rd St., next to the Cocoa Bean. In October, David and Tonja Kjerland were featured in this WCCO-TV story titled Alum Restoring 100-Year-Old St. Olaf Skylight about their restoration of a hail-damaged skylight at the top of Steensland [...]
December 24, 2006 – 10:48 am
The Las Delicias restaurant on Division closes next week, citing “problems with our current landlord… ” The building is owned by Bob and Kate Kuyper, clients of mine. I don’t have details but I will ask. Click the images to read the posters that are in the window.
December 22, 2006 – 7:20 am
Left: my daughter Gilly Wigley, an Americorps worker at the Northfield Public Library, with a collection of Northfielder Joyce Francis’ ‘Twas the Night before Christmas memorabilia.
Our family has an ‘under $10′ rule this year for xmas presents so instead of buying my book presents at River City Books, I’ve ordered them from [...]
December 8, 2006 – 5:48 pm
Robbie and I stopped by the NAG last night during Winter Walk to check out the Festival of Trees from last Saturday’s event that we missed. I saw that my barber and Hodge Podge Que co-owner Jerry Nord was the creator of one of the trees (left photo, click to enlarge) that ended [...]
November 29, 2006 – 9:42 pm
I took this photo a couple weeks ago of Dave Neuger, Neuger Communications Group, presenting to the College Board of Business Consultants (CBBC) in the lower level of the Archer House. Also in the photo, L to R: Mark Molke (Wells Fargo Bank), Julie Cochlin (Community Resource Bank), Ethan Singer (Carleton), ErikThoen (Carleton) and Jennifer [...]
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.
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