Ben Witt, Northfielder, blogger, and owner of Milltown Cycles in Faribault, is once again hosting the annual 4th of July Northfield Criterium in downtown Northfield on Saturday. Races start at…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
I stumbled on something interesting yesterday. It’s called “Building a More Sustainable Economy – Economic Development Strategy and Public Incentives in Austin“.
The study is about public support of private initiatives. It looks at the goals of the public support, the decision-making process, and the quantifiable results. From my reading, it appears that things went pretty well in Austin until fairly recently and then there were some projects that, to say the least, did not achieve the desired results. The study also includes recommendations for improving the economic development and public incentives processes in Austin.
I’m not sure that I agree with all of the objectives of the group that initiated the work or all their opinions on the causes and effects of the less than successful projects. However, I thought their analysis of the economic development and the evaluation/decision processes was quite useful.
I missed much of Celebrate Dundas last weekend as I was on JuneBug duty. But I did get there for a few hours on Saturday afternoon. See the album of…
Low humidity last week made for some good photo ops of downtown.
Our guest this week was Ray Cox, member of the Northfield Safety Center Task Force (SCTF), discussing you-know-what. I’ve turned off comments on this post. Join the discussion on the April SCTF blog post where there are 40+ comments to-date.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
I saw Jerry Weber, co-owner of Sweet Pea’s Loft/Toys & Treats, pedaling his ice cream bike in downtown Dundas on Saturday for Celebrate Dundas. Robbie and I each ate one…
Last week, the Northfield EDA recommended that the City enter into a partnership with the Archer House: a $100k forgivable loan in exchange for ADA-compliant toilets for public use. I like the idea and I think Dallas Haas would, too. See pages 9-21 in the June 25 EDA packet; the June 27th Nfld News story; and the June 26 Friday Memo in which Joel Walinksi wrote: (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…
See the album of all 99 JuneBug 2009 musical performance photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow: