At last week’s Manzone 2009 planning meeting, Mike Herman of Culligan got standing ovation and an award for his contributions of time and manpower for the 2008 and 2009 events. The event is being held this week on Friday, January 30 from 5-9 pm at the Community Resource Bank main branch on Hwy 3. (continued)
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Last week I stopped by the Contented Cow to hear the Blue Grass & Old Time Jam session that happens there every Tuesday night at around 7:30 PM. That night, there were many local musicians and a few drop-ins from out-of-town so I took a few photos and captured a 1-minute video. (continued)
I don’t know if the City of Northfield’s 4-year old website can be easily modified (that was the plan when it was created for $85,000) but it clearly needs improvement. So maybe we can help the City by listing the problems we encounter when using the site and making suggestions for improvement. (Although I do blogsites for a living, I would decline bidding on a revamp of the City’s site, just like I declined to bid on a revamp of the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce’s website.) (continued)
Betsey Buckheit started her blog last fall when she began running for office and she’s been continuing to blog since she was elected. We now aggregate her blog’s feed on our left sidebar. (We had her as a guest on our show/podcast back in late Nov.)
Here’s a Wordle of her blog that gives you a glimpse of what she’s currently writing about. Click to enlarge. (continued)
Our revamp has prompted me to go back and edit my faux news posts since I started doing them in October, 2006, fixing the category assigned to each. So now if you want too see them all (a couple dozen or so), just click the Faux news category wherever it appears (top banner, sidebar, blog post footer). (continued)
President Barack Obama personally did me and other atheists a big favor in his inaugural speech this week when he said:
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers. (continued)
NCO/Northfield.org held their annual meeting last night at The Grand Event Center and featured a panel of local medial moguls.
See Tracy’s post from earlier this week, the album of 14 photos, or this slideshow: (continued)
I had no idea this was in the works until I saw the headline in today’s NY Times: Secretary of State Clinton Arrives at Foggy Bottom. You can see FB…
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