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The state celebrates its 151st birthday today. Did you know that Minnesota has more miles of shoreline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined? I didn’t. Or that Minnesotan baseball commentator…

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Jim Spaulding has another business to attend to besides the HideAway Coffeehouse & Winebar. It’s called Just Trikes, an authorized dealership for Hannigan Trikes (three wheel motorcycles).

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I’m pretty sure heard one of the MPR meteorologists last week advising people to wait till after Mother’s Day to plant annuals and vegetables.  If so, oops! There was patchy…

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The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday…

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In yesterday’s Northfield News: Lansing trespassing, says owner of 600 Division site: A no trespassing order, served by police Wednesday on Lee Lansing, says the former mayor must close his…

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As you may or may not be aware, an ad-hoc Land Use Advisory Group working under the auspices of the Planning Commission is reviewing the draft of Northfield’s new zoning ordinances. The new ordinances are intended to bring our land use regulations in line with our Comprehensive Plan, something we’ve been unable to accomplish with previous revisions. One of the things the advisory group has discussed is how much Northfield would/should/could restrict the use of “franchise architecture”. (continued)

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Girls Nite Out 2009 ended at The Grand last night. See the album of 18 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow.

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