Jasnoch Construction is nearing completion of the new Heritage Apartments complex on Heritage Drive near Jefferson Road.
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
I drove by the old Tires Plus site at 6th and Division yesterday and saw a Xmas tree tied to the light pole with Xmas lights strung up the pole.…
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for October was up 9-12% from September, according to Google Analytics:
- 8,484 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 7,583 (+11.88%)
- 19,222 Visits; Previous: 17,135 (+12.18%)
- 41,502 Pageviews; Previous: 37,772 (+9.88%)
Participation
We had 1,272 comments, up from 874. That might be an all-time high.
We had 92 different people commenting, slightly higher than the 60-80 that we’ve been averaging since March, 2009.
PageRank
Our Google PageRank value is 5 out of a possible 10 points according to PRChecker. (PageRank uses a base-10 logarithmic scale, same as the Richter scale. So a site with a PageRank of 5 has approximately ten times the traffic of a site with a PageRank of 4.)
Referrers
Where did our traffic come from? Our top (we thank you!) Northfield-area referrers:
Rank – Source – Visits
03: northfield.org: 1476
10: bleeet.blogspot.com: 69
13: kymnradio.net: 61
14: nddc.org: 54
20: stolaf.edu: 37
21: pressville.org: 35
24: northfieldrotary.org: 31
31: tesselar.net: 19
34: directorsimon.wordpress.com: 17
47: milltowncycles.blogspot.com: 10
The top 100 of the 276 referrers: (continued)
Pages 15-22 of Monday’s Northfield City Council meeting and work session packet (PDF) includes details on the process used by the Selection Committee in recent months. See also the Sat. Nfld News: Swanson’s letter to city isn’t swaying mayor’s opinion.
I’ve copy/pasted the text from pages 18-22 here to make it easier to reference for discussion. I’ve turned off comments here. Continue the discussion on our Sept. blog post, What’s up with the City Attorney selection process? (continued)
Robbie and I seem to be ordering take-out more often during this recession. And when we do eat out, we end up taking home the leftovers (AKA doggie bag) more…
I’ve been a fan of ‘separated at birth’ since the days of Spy Magazine, so when I saw Northfield Mayor Mary Rossing in the HideAway Coffeehouse and Winebar last week…
St. Olaf professor Gordon Marino has a post that was published on the NY Times Happy Days blog on Wednesday that’s currently the #1 emailed articled on the entire NYT site. It’s called Kierkegaard on the Couch (Marino is also curator of the Hong/Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf.)
These days, confide to someone that you are in despair and he or she will likely suggest that you seek out professional help for your depression. While despair used to be classified as one of the seven deadly sins, it has now been medicalized and folded into the concept of clinical depression.
Clay Oglesbee, District Superintendent of the MN Methodist southeast MN region and former lead pastor at the Northfield United Methodist Church, has a new blog called Just One More Thing.…
Given the condition of this streetlight at 3rd St. and Hwy 3 on Monday, it may appear that those who are against the proposed streetlight fee (tax?) are taking matters into their own hands.
Not true. But it’s still a hot issue. Listen to Councilor Jon Denison’s comments on KYMN last Friday; and see the discussion attached to Councilor Betsey Buckheit’s Oct. 11 blog post, where she starts out: