It was about 15 degrees F on Saturday afternoon (but sunny!) when I took these photos of Stew Moyer, in shirtsleeves and um, rubber gloves, doing nose wheelies and riding…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Northfield has more racquetball players per capita than any other town in the state. (You can look it up on the internet.) Both colleges have had racquetball courts for decades…
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for February was a mixed bag, according to Google Analytics. Site visitors set a record, going past 8,000 for the first time; pageviews and visits were down 8-10%. That may be because I’m now able to prevent pageviews and visits by me, Ross, Tracy and Bonnie from adding to the totals.
I’m comparing Feb. to Dec., as we lost the stats for a good chunk of January when I forgot to replace the code in the footer during the site changeover to a new theme. I’ve since installed a plugin to prevent a reoccurance (continued)
I’m in Chicago on bidniz. It’s my second return to the Mother Ship in three years. This sure ain’t Seattle.
After the “L” ride from O’Hare to The Loop, in between registration and the first session, I thought I’d do a little sight-seeing.
I spent one summer in Chicago during college. I lived a few block from Victor Arrigo Park and worked in Water Tower Place, on the north end of the Magnificent Mile. I think it was 1979, the year of the Disco Disaster in Comiskey Park. (continued)
On the 8 am newscast on MPR’s KNOW 91.1 FM yesterday, I heard that Rice County District Court Judge Bernard Borene ruled in favor of St. Olaf and MPR on…
I’ve been working with (L to R) Bill Carlson, Ray Eng, and Ed Lufkin to convert the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium (CVEC) website to a WordPress-based blog site. It went…
Since Southgate Theater closed and became Culver’s, most locals assume that you have to travel to nearby towns to see movies in a movie theater. Not so. Last night, Robbie and I saw Quantum of Solace with many other Northfielders. Where?
NOTE – PUBLIC HEARING MARCH 2: There is a public hearing at Monday’s City Council meeting “to consider public input regarding amendments to the Northfield Ordinance Code, Section 74-97 to include the annexed area west of the Northfield Hospital into the Rural Service District. Public comment relating to the proposed ordinance amendment is welcome, and may be given in writing prior to the hearing or orally at the hearing.” You can read the relevant section of the ordinance code online here.
Here is the regular agenda and meeting packet for Monday’s City Council meeting.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. 
The Friday Memo, written by interim Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. Although it’s directed to the mayor and city council, it’s helpful for citizens to see what’s going, too.
A few months ago Griff and Ross each wrote a blog post about Twitter and tweeting and twits, respectively.
I’m here to provide an update, and to try to get more Northfielders to try out this technology. Maybe we can become the first community of microblogging, hyperlocal, placebloggers. (continued)