The Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce/Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) has a newly revamped website for VisitingNorthfield.com. At first glance, there’s a lot to like. A second glance, however, makes…
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Tickets for Northfield High School’s Rock ‘n Roll Revival VIII go on sale today at the Community Services Division office in the NCRC. (It would be nice if A) the event had its own web site; and B) tickets could be ordered online.) The District’s web site says:
All tickets are $10 and are reserved seats. Performances are March 13,14,20 & 21 at 8 p.m. and March 15 at 2 p.m. Past shows have been sellouts so plan to purchase your tickets in advance. No phone orders please. Information at (507) 663-0632.
See the album from the 2005 event or this slideshow. (continued)
Congrats to the Northfield News for winning the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s 2008 Mills Trophy for ‘most outstanding weekly newspaper in Minnesota.’ See the article in last Wednesday’s paper titled Newspaper wins top state award. It’s the first time the paper has won the award. (continued)
Admittedly, I’ve been slow getting around to this post. Late January, and the first week of February, was pretty busy. However, I’ve been carrying around the aging bit of newsprint since January 14th. The story seemed significant and…well…maybe better late than never. The state of New York won the first round in court against on-line giant Amazon.com over a new law requiring out-of-state online companies to collect state sales tax from shoppers in the state of New York.
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…
I’m not sure how Harvard Law students got involved in this….. maybe someone who knows can chime in and enlighten us. From the Northfield League of Women Voters observer report…
While visiting the offices of Construction Consulting Partners (a client) last week, I noticed the Jan/Feb 09 issue of Girlfriends (‘where local women turn’) and that CCP staffer Mary Closner was featured in the magazine’s Daddy’s Girl column on the back. The issue is not yet available on the Girlfriends website but should be soon. (continued)
The south Riverwalk kiosk on the Water St. pedestrian promenade (AKA ‘Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza’) now has the Northfield downtown directory on its north side. Jim Bohnhoff, who has a 1-year contract to maintain the kiosk information, has secured ten sponsorship ads for the left and right sidebars, including (continued)
Northfielder Will Healy has a new music show called ‘The Long Way Home’ that airs on KYMN 1080 AM on Sunday nights, 7-9pm. Last week’s Feb. 1 show (blogged by…