Last spring, the Northfield City Council adopted a vision statement and four goals for 2009. (See pages 47-56 of the April 6 meeting packet.) Two documents (PDFs) are now available on the Council’s web page: 1) a one-page vision and goals statement; 2) an eight-page outline of the goals and related initiatives. This new Council has been in office for 9 months; it’s been 5 months since the goals were adopted. How are they doing? (continued)
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Cannon Falls-based whimsical artist Bryan Moon (see his James-Younger gang ‘cats’ painting) was a guest on KYMN’s Wayne Eddy Affair yesterday morning. In my photo, Bryan’s holding up a collection…
There must be others like me whose eyes glaze over when a discussion of local property taxes and the budget comes up. So let’s try to make sense of Northfield’s property taxes, both residential and commercial, and their relationship to the 2010 budget.
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I happened to be biking and walking in Carleton’s Upper Arb last night when the clouds parted a few minutes before sunset. Click the thumbnails once to see a medium-sized…
Our radio show/podcast guest this week: Amy Merritt, the new Executive Director of the Northfield Union of Youth, whose youth center is known as The Key. Former ED Josh Hinnencamp blogged about her hiring back in August.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
The Northfield Rotary Club has ten outbound Youth Exchange students for 2009-10 and thus far, four of them have blogs: Sam Estenson: One year in Japan Lauren Reed: To Finland!…
On Tuesday, Aug 11, I had a double red cell donation appointment at 1pm at the Northfield Ballroom. When I arrived, donors were told that some supplies had not yet arrived from St. Paul and that it would be a 45 minute delay. I had other things scheduled so I departed, irritated because they have my phone number and could have alerted me. But I’m more irritated now that no one has contacted me in the month since it happened.(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…
The DJJD carnival has been a fixture of DJJD for decades. See my 2008 album of 25 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow: