EDA President Rick Estenson lent me his copy of the August Money magazine. The cover story is titled the “100 Best Places to Live in America“.
Number one is Louisville, Co, number two is Chanhassan, MN, number three is Papillion, NE, number four is Middleton, WI, and number five is Milton, MA. (Hmmm, I used to wrestle against Milton in high school; we called them the rich kids.) There’s several Minnesota towns in the top 100. In fact, the upper Midwest is very well represented in the list.
The old Tires Plus site got some spiffing up (sweeping, lawn mowing) by City of Northfield workers last week (photo courtesy of Tim Freeland). I don’t understand why this was…
I noticed this week that an Edward Jones Investments (EJI) office is the new tenant in the old Fine Groove Records store on Division St. And then it occurred to…
Our guest: Alice Thomas, member of the City of Northfield Planning Commission-Zoning Board of Appeals (PC-ZBA). We discussed their recent ruling on the old Tires Plus property (Lansing garden center) as well as the Land Development Code (LDC). I’ve turned off comments on this post; continue discussion on Tracy’s post from last week.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
There will be a public open house for input to the multimodal transportation study for Highway 3 /Highway 19 at 7:00p.m. this coming Wednesday, July 22, at the Armory.
The study area includes TH 3 from the bridge over the Cannon River to the bridge over the railroad north of St. Olaf Avenue; and TH 19/5th Street from the Odd Fellows Lane to the bridge over the Cannon River. Maps and background information are available on the project page for the study.
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…
There’s something happening at Digs on Division St. but I don’t know what. Anyone? Anyone?
The 2009 Red Ribbon Ride came through Northfield this morning and stopped for coffee and warmth at the HideAway Coffeehouse and Winebar. This is a four day, nearly 300 mile…
The Fbo Daily News has a story about horse-pulling at this week’s Rice County Fair. From the photo included with the story, there’s apparently more to preparation for this competition…