I just noticed this sign in Bridge Square on my way home this evening. It reminded me that it is the weekend of the South Central Minnesota Art Tour. There…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
The 3rd Annual Northfield Harvest Stomp is tonight. Details at Northfield.org. See the album of 3 dozen photos from last year’s Winter Stomp… and a one-minut video below.
I’m catching up on my 2008 DJJD photos from over a month ago. (I have at least one more album to go.) See the album of 26 photos of miscellaneous…
Don McGee and Erica Zweifel are running for Northfield City Council, Ward 3. We’ve invited them to interact online with us (the LoGroNo Triumvirate) here in the message thread…
The NDDC held its annual meeting at the Grand Event Center last night. Featured speaker: Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow at Project for Public Spaces (PPS). The photo on the right:…
Update log: 10/27 9:30 a.m., 10/31 2:30 p.m.
Jesse Streitz received informal encouragement from the Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) on Thursday morning to move forward with plans to build a Goddard School for Early Education off Professional Drive.
Streitz, former mayor of Dundas, said he would plan on returning to the EDA in the future to ask what the board can do to help finance the endeavor, possibly through a Master Development Fund loan.*
Buying the land and building the school would cost about $1.9 million, he said. The school would eventually employ 20 people and enroll about 134 students. He told the EDA he hoped to break ground between January and March and operate the school at “half-capacity” at first.
Northfield retailer Cathy Collison, owner of Glass Garden Beads, is profiled in the October issue of Womeninc magazine. The article is titled, (what else?!) Cathy Collison and her Bottle Cap…
L to R: Joe Gasior, Rhonda Pownell, Victor Summa, and Lynn Vincent are running for Northfield City Council, At-Large, a 2-year term (remaining years from Noah Cashman’s seat). We’ve invited…