Encouraged by the reception to their study of a tunnel under the Hwy. 19 railroad crossing (see pages 5-7 of this PDF update), engineers at Bolton and Menk announced this…
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ArtOrg Executive Director Dave Machacek presents at this week’s Pecha Kucha night in the Twin Cities. See his blog post and Friday’s Strib article titled PowerPoint on speed? You pecha.…
A bumper sticker on a hail-damaged car in the Just Food Coop parking lot yesterday. I’m not sure if we should be pleased.
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. This week’s memo includes…
Today’s Nfld News (Commission suggests changing governmental powers) says that the Charter Commission is considering revisions to the Charter, granting “… executive power to the mayor’s office…” I’ve got no…
I was having a Barack Obama-type foreign beer on the Contented Cow’s outdoor patio with my sweetie last week and saw motorcyclists Cathy Collison, owner of Glass Garden Beads, chatting…
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for July was down 12-18% from April, according to Google Analytics. (I missed doing the stats from May and June.) July compared to April: 15,727…
Nicole Maloney of Sweet Pea’s Loft, has a new Cash for Clunkers (CARS) car – a Kia Rio. She managed to get her old POS into the dealer before it…
I was shocked to read in yesterday’s Northfield News (Transit study suggests tunnel under highway) that the Bolton and Menk consultants have drawn up conceptual plans for putting a tunnel under the Hwy 19 railroad tracks by Malt-O-Meal. When Tracy blogged about Hwy 3/Hwy 19 transportation study open house a few weeks back, I had no idea that we’d be paying consultants to look at a tunnel. This seems like a wildly extravagant idea and a waste of money to study, no matter if it’s local dollars or Federal dollars. Or am I missing something? (continued)