ArtSwirl 08 kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday. See the PDF poster, Jessica Paxton’s blog post on N.org, and the NAG’s ArtSwirl web page. See the 2007 ArtSwirl beach…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Artist Jennifer Wolcott has installed a sculpture at the entrance to the Northfield Public Library, a set of seven “bookhead dancers“. There will soon be a contest for kids to…
Arts and Culture Commission chair Phillip Spensley was our guest this week. This was essentially a follow-up to the NDDC forum on arts and culture policy that was held earlier…
I got this from a local resident a week or so ago: The city has dumped tons of gravel on nearly new streets, including Jefferson Parkway and Maple and others…
I only was able to visit Northfield’s National Night Out event for about 10 minutes yesterday. According to Sgt. Mark Murphy, it was well-attended all the way through to 8…
Seven citizens have applied to be the interim at-large councilor for Noah Cashman’s Northfield City Council seat. This interim term would be from Aug. 18 to the end of 2008.…
Here is the second of a series of 10-minute videos during which the Northfield mayoral candidates tell voters a little bit about their campaigns. City Councilor Jon Denison spoke with me on Monday morning and our discussion occured both on and off camera. I asked him before the camera rolled about his current unemployment and the recent disputes he has had with former landlords over unpaid rent. Denison said he believed personal matters such as those do not detract from his ability to work effectively on the City Council, or as mayor.
The video is after the jump.
A Kwik Kondom franchise (using the tag line ‘kows, kolleges, kondoms, kontentment’) has opened near the intersection of Hwy 3 and Heritage Drive, joining the nearby Kwik Kopy shop and…
On downtown’s west side, the City has opted to put in the light yellow pavers in the medians and other areas instead of grass or other forms of landscaping. Anyone…