I drove by the skatepark in Babcock Park this morning and noticed that most of the structures had been removed. A Bobcat was there, open, but unoccupied. Anyone know what’s…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Update 9 pm: at 2:58 today, I posted the headline of the 1:48 PM Nfld News story titled: Summa admits poaching petition, won’t face jury with an excerpt of the first three sentences and the blog post title “Summa admits guilt; criminal charges dropped.” (continued)
Tracy mentioned in her blog post of last week’s Friday Memo that there "… are rumblings that another restaurant will be locating in the space held by Sweet Lou’s Waffle…
We got this email from Victor Summa over the weekend. I’ve added the links and photos.
Here’s a challenge for LG. It’s called using our history … retaining our meaning.
In the 9[26]09 N News there’s an article on the Palmer Fossum vintage tractor collection being auctioned. [see] the auctioneer’s E page on the collection. The Fossum farm is east of town on 100th street. (continued)
The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and various department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are…
I got this email from a local resident:
I think it would be interesting to post something about St. Olaf’s decision to bring in Karl Rove on October 1st to speak. I am actually quite appalled that our hometown Lutheran college would do such a thing. Ann Coulter was one thing- she’s an over the top media freak who makes money by being just so. Karl Rove, kindly known as "Bush’s Brain" is a criminal with little regard for the law or the betterment of our society. Frankly, I think he’s evil and should be in jail!
The slightly defaced poster on the wall of the GBM (my photo above) has more to say, as well as the blog post on Oleville, by the Political Awareness Committee (PAC) of the St. Olaf Student Government Association (SGA) . (continued)
Today’s Nfld News: Hospital Board meetings likely broke law. "Hospital officials likely broke open meeting laws by routinely closing meetings to the public to discuss executive departures from the city-owned enterprise…" In mid-August, Northfield Hospital‘s Bobbi Jenkins contacted me about posting a news release (see below) from the search committee "seeking input from the community regarding the most important qualities for candidates for the President/CEO position." (continued)
Posted to the Carleton News page: Carleton President Robert A. Oden Jr. Announces Retirement, Effective June 2010 StarTribune at 3:20 PM: Carleton College president to retire
The City has a new map of the 2009 Northfield Parks, Open Space, and Trail System Plan (PDF) available. I don’t know who created it but it’s very detailed and…