Ray Cox, Kathy Feltes, Julie Pritchard and Mitchell Sellner have applied for an open position on the Northfield School Board, recently vacated by Diane Cirksena. A subcommittee of the board…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Our radio show/podcast guest this week: David Ludescher, a partner at Grundhoefer & Ludescher and a member of the Mayor’s Streetscape Taskforce, talking about the the lack of a decision-making rubric for the expenditure of public dollars, particularly for capital improvement projects like downtown streetscape enhancements. (Comments on this post are disabled. Join the existing discussion attached to David’s guest blog post.)
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
Where can I get name tags like this one in Northfield? I want to have them for attendees at the upcoming banquet commemorating last fall’s Save the Penis campaign at…
In last week’s Friday Memo, Northfield Police Chief Mark Taylor announced the new Rice County Medication Safety Program named Take it to the Box. I had a bottle of…
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…
Robbie and I won a New Ulm Chamber of Commerce drawing back in March when we saw the New Ulm-based movie, New in Town. The Chamber’s gift basket contained…
I blogged about the problem of beige houses way back in the fall of 2006. This fall, we had a chance to do our part to rectify the problem when…
KYMN radio host Wayne Eddy keeps this sign hanging on the dashboard of his convertible. I’m not sure he wears spurs very often any more and I’m not sure he…
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for August was up 3-6% from July, according to Google Analytics.
August compared to July:
- 6,548 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,305 (+3.85%)
- 16,569 Visits; Previous: 15,727 (+5.35%)
- 35,589 Pageviews; Previous: 33,554 (+6.06%)
Participation
We had 75 different commenters during the month of August. We’ve been averaging approximately 800 comments per month (by 60-80 different people) since March, 2009. Our all-time record was 1900 comments in October of 2008.
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? The top 50 (we thank you!) of the 265 referrers: (continued)