This parakeet was hanging around our backyard birdfeeders in the Hidden Valley Park neighborhood yesterday.
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
In the NY Times earlier this week: As Storefronts Become Vacant, Ads Arrive. “Rather than let abandoned retail spaces look like pockets of poverty, landlords are renting the windows out…
In 2005, SpeechGear moved from downtown Northfield into the old Montessori school building on Hwy 19 (across from Malt-O-Meal) under the state’s Job Opportunity Building Zones (JOBZ) program, promising to…
I wimped out when I got up at 5:30 and saw that it was 44 degrees with winds gusting to 25 mph, but Nonmotorized Transportation Task Force Chair Bill Ostrem…
A supermercado called La Eskina has replaced the Dundas Corner Mart on Hwy 3 just south of the Frandsen Bank. The signs say “Bakery, hot deli, meat market, fresh guacamole,…
Last week the Northfield City Council heard a presentation from staff and an attorney re: Piper Jaffray’s request to amend the tax increment financing (TIF) note for the Mendota Homes development called The Crossing. Some Councilors keyed in on the opportunity this might provide for site improvements and others expressed big picture concerns. I understood very little of it all so a conversation here might help. (continued)
The Northfield Task Force on Nonmotorized Transportation invites bicyclists, walkers, telecommuters, transit riders and car/van-poolers to stop by Bridge Square Thursday morning between 6:15 and 8:00 for coffee, juice, tasty…