Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin (AKA ‘Regi’) was featured on The Story last week in a piece titled The Fight to Farm. (The Story is distributed by American Public Media (APR), the parent…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Close your eyes, children of Northfield. Last Saturday, I took this photos of Northfield Municipal Liquor Store’s Bob ‘Fat Bastard’ Stangler proudly displaying the Cycles Gladiator wine that according to…
Blogger and Northfield City Councilor Betsey Buckheit and her main squeeze, Justin London, installed a green roof (see more info on the Minnesota Green Roofs Council site) on a portion…
I happened to be having fish and chips on the upper deck of the Contented Cow last night when a swarm of adults and youth converged on an unsuspecting Amy…
There are now six temporary skatepark structures set up at Babcock Park and judging from the crowd there last night, it appears to be a hit. See the…
In last week’s NY Times: Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative. “In an economic downturn, the do-it-yourself ethos extends to families burying their own loved ones, sometimes in their backyards.” I had no idea. Are there Northfield area death midwives (home funeral guides)? Do our local funeral homes (Bierman Funeral Home; Benson and Langehough Funeral Home) provide support for family-directed funerals? Have any congregations provided support for home burials? (continued)
We picnicked at Sakatah Lake State Park last weekend and I noticed that they’ve set up a collector/detector gizmo on an ash tree for the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). In…
The City of Northfield has been hit with a disability and gender discrimination lawsuit, filed by former Economic Development Manager Charlene Coulombe-Fiore.
Posted to the Nfld News website at 3pm today: Former employee alleges discrimination in federal suit (continued)
Tom Friedman’s column yesterday, 59 Is the New 30, reinforced my oft-stated goal to live till the end of the summer of 2069 so I can celebrate the 100th anniversary…