This week’s announcement of the Google Living Stories Project (NY Times: Google Unveils News-by-Topic Service) presents the opportunity for us to use the tool to track the Copenhagen conference on climate change and discuss it here.
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
It’s 6:10am as I’m typing this in my corner office at the Goodbye Blue Monday coffeehouse with a hot cup of coffee. It was tricky getting out of my driveway…
It’s a little known fact that the Northfield Arts Guild Festival of Wreaths (last year it was trees) is a competition, not just an auction/fundraiser. This year’s winner: the donut…
Ross was AWOL yesterday so Tracy put on her PC-ZBA hat and I pretended to be interested, asking her about the latest with the annexations in Greenvale and Bridgewater townships as well as the Land Development Code. We introduced the show with lots of fun fluff, natch.
We occasionally blog about non-local issues here on LoGroNo, as we’ve learned that many of our site visitors like to discuss them A) with local people/those they know; and B) in a climate of civility that exists here in part because of our Discussion Guidelines that we enforce.
Over the next few days, I’ll blog about some hot topics that go beyond Northfield: war, climate change, health care and maybe more. Here’s a look back at some of the national and international issues that have drawn interest and the number of comments attached:
The “Friday Memo,” written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and various department heads and other City staff, summarizes the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are published and archived in PDF form at the bottom of the City Administrator’s web page. The first memo of each month also includes an update on the actions and activities of the City’s Boards and Commissions.
Friday’s memo can be found on the memo page for the week. Items of note include:
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for November was both up and down from September, according to Google Analytics:
- 8,547 Absolute Unique Visitors: Previous: 8,334 (+2.56%)
- 18,242 Visits: Previous: 19,222 (-5.10%)
- 37,128 Pageviews: Previous: 41,502 (-10.54%)
That’s our second-highest ever for site visitors, eclipsed only by Nov. 2008 (election year).
Dynamic Design Landscaping has donated a lighted Xmas tree on Bridge Square. Evidently part of the deal allows the placement of a large sandwich board next to the tree that advertises their Xmas tree lot on South Highway 3. This seems a bit much to me and with its placement next to the big Northfield Area United Way thermometer, makes Bridge Square look cluttered.
Sean Simonson, Tech Coordinator with the City of Northfield’s Engineering Dept., has this update in last week’s Friday Memo: