I missed these two events last night at St. Olaf: The F-Word: What Are Feminists Moaning About? “Learn about feminism from Katie Asher ’09.” Vagina Wellness. “Wellness Center Event. Learn…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Our studio guest this week: Kathie Galotti, parent of two K-12 students and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Carleton College, discussing the flap over the proposed district-wide 1 hr late start/early release on Mondays next year. I’ve turned off comments on this blog post. Continue the discussion (over 80 comments thus far) attached to Kathie’s Feb. 17 blog post, My objections to the proposed changes to the school calendar.
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The National Civic Review, the quarterly journal of the National Civic League (“Now in its 98th year of publication”), has its Winter 2008 issue out. The issue has a 6-page…
Local governments and independent non-profits can be resources for business owners in need of support, especially in today’s tougher economic times. In Northfield, however, not everyone agrees on what the government and non-profits should do in order to offer the most help to the most business owners. The Representative Journalism Project attempted to collect more information about the matter by issuing a survey in January to 60 business owners or managers from a variety of fields. (continued)
Rob Hardy rhetorically asked in comment #71 attached to Kathie Galotti’s guest blog post about the district calendar flap, “How can the school district make itself feel like a real community, instead of education insiders vs. outsiders?”
I’ve been invited to attend the Northfield School District’s Key Communicator Network Training on March 19 (page 1 of the 4-page mailing is on the right – click to enlarge and then click the green arrow to enlarge again), and I plan to attend. I don’t think this program is likely to help address the issue Rob raises. (continued)
I know I do my part to create and spread Northfield-related faux news but I also spend a fair amount of time debunking items that people see fit to alert…
Evidently MNDOT has hired Pro Source Construction ProSource Technologies to check out the City of Northfield’s empty lot next to the City’s maintenance facility on Riverview Drive. I took this photo of an excavator finishing up last night after it had dug up quite a bit of the lot over the past two days. Why? To see if there’s nasty stuff that’s been dumped there over the years. I don’t know what they found but I’ll see what I can find out.
MNDOT is looking at alternatives for its sand/salt lot/facility at the corner of Woodley and Hwy 3, a site that the City might want for a new safety center.
Update 2/26, 11:30 am: I took these photos (below) this morning. Looks like they’ve unearthed old pipes, asphalt, concrete… and not too far down, the water table. (continued)
It’s Fat Tuesday. It’s the day to show your…beads. This year, I’m making an extra effort to show my spirit during this celebration.
As a bit of brief background for the Lutherans in our audience, Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday or Fausnacht Day) is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, or the last day before Lent. In places of sizable Catholic populations (and warmer weather) people often celebrate by wildly dancing in scanty costumes to spicy music. (continued)
Malt-O-Meal (MOM) now has a news blog, a M-O-M information blog, and a recipe blog. They’re using WordPress 2.7, they have comments enabled, RSS feeds, social bookmarking links, and two…