Two granite fixtures have been added to the Harvest sculpture area of the Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza: one provides a narrative background on the plaza and sculpture. The other is a…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Tom Friedman wrote in his NY Times column yesterday: I go into restaurants these days, look around at the tables often still crowded with young people, and I have this…
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…
Logan Nash, a student in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College, has written a piece titled In the Obama-Era, Plans Revive for a Northfield-Twin Cities Rail Line (PDF – full text below).
See the Dan Patch commuter rail line/corridor web page on MNDOT’s site for more info, as well as the Northstar Commuter Rail Line website.
In the Obama-Era, Plans Revive for a Northfield-Twin Cities Rail Line
By Logan Nash
With the national economy still a giant question mark, Northfield community leaders are pushing ahead to revive a long-delayed project to build a commuter rail line that would link the town to the Twin Cities metropolitan region.
The national economic downturn is precisely why a serious reconsideration of the commuter line, called the Dan Patch Corridor, is especially warranted right now, the line’s advocates say.
Rick Estenson, co-chair of Kids Voting Northfield (sponsored by the Northfield Rotary Club and WINGS), sent me the results of this year’s election. See the PDF or the Excel…
Once again, the Northfield Community Action Center and the Civic Engagement Program in the Center for Experiential Learning at St. Olaf teamed up on National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.…
Over the past week or two, there have been a couple of comments indicating that Locally Grown is, or is perceived to be, a “liberal blog”. I find this both…