A good half dozen or so people have been encouraging me to read Bill McKibben’s book “Deep Economy” and Griff and Tracy have been urging me to write a post…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
I drove by the new Water St. pedestrian promenade (I like that name better than ‘Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza’) yesterday and noticed that the new kiosk is not being used. The…
The Northfield Public Library Teen Advisory Board blog has a post on their recent ‘Too Cool For School’ Music Coffee House with photos of the event. See the Too Cool…
No, we weren’t consuming alcoholic beverages in the KYMN studio yesterday while recording our post-election show/podcast. But you’ll probably think so after listening to us. Cheers! Click play to listen.…
I don’t know what President-elect Barack Obama will ask of us but he said last night in Chicago: This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only…
We had a modest turnout at our Locally Grown election party at the Upstairs Rueb last night. About 50 people total visited throughout the evening, with a group of about…
‘Nuff said. Or maybe I should add, “It’s about time.” See full results on MN Sec’y of State website
Barbara Howe, director of Open Door Nursery School on West Third Street, is worried about the number of vacancies in daycares and preschools citywide.
“I think a lot of parents are having to make decisions financially,” Howe said on Tuesday. “There are things that have to go and unfortunately, nursery school is one of them.”
Howe said her concern about enrollment increased when she learned a Dundas business owner had plans to build a Goddard School franchise in Northfield.
That business owner, Jesse Streitz, has said he might apply for one of the city’s forgivable or low-interest loan programs in the amount of about $15,500, which would offset some city-associated expenses with buying the land for the $1.9 million school project.
“It’s not that I’m against other schools coming into the city,” Howe said. “I’m trying to say that if there’s another school with a lot of openings, it could be catastrophic for those of us who are already here. So, I would just rather not see tax dollars used to assist the Goddard School in that way.”
Streitz has said Goddard School Systems administrators performed market research that shows a school would be viable in Northfield, however, and that a Goddard School franchise has yet to fail in the company’s 20-year history.