I was in Duluth last weekend and the local news headlines were all about the $6.5 million City budget deficit mess, at a level that’s attracting statewide coverage (MPR last…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Paul Hager spoke with me on Friday afternoon in a Carleton College classroom, where he works as a Technical Director in the Cinema and Media Studies program. Northfield Mayoral Candidate…
Last August I blogged Ray ‘Jake’ Jacobson’s presentation of his Harvest sculpture to an NDDC downtown forum. The sculpture was given a temporary home at MOM in November. This…
Many of our discussion threads veer off in the direction of, “What Northfield really needs is a ____________.” Now would be a particularly significant time to devote a whole post…
I met with Minnesota historian Bruce White last week who will be using this photo of Northfield’s Bridge Square in the header (rotational banner photos) on his soon-to-be unveiled blogsite.…
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…
Two years ago, right about this time (10 am or so), THE hailstorm hit. See my one year-anniversary blog post, as well as this one titled Northfield’s ‘06 hailstorm featured…
While taking photos of the outdoor pool’s climbing wall last week, I noticed the commemorative plaque and flag pole for what’s now called Old Memorial Park. The plaque reads: On…